Pedro M. (Kepa) Paz-Alonso

Research

Group Leader - Ikerbasque Research Associate 2021-2025 (Former Ramon y Cajal Fellow 2016-2020)

Keywords: Cognitive neuroscience, Developmental cognitive neuroscience, Language systems, Memory systems, Functional MRI (task-related, resting state), structural MRI (volumetry, diffusion MRI, quantitative MRI), Dyslexia, Parkinson.

BCBL Research lines: Language development across the life span; reading and dislexia; neurodegeneration, brain damage and rehabilitation; language and other cognitive systems; advanced methods in cognitive neuroscience.

Post-Doctoral Researcher: Center for Mind and Brain, University of California, Davis, CA, US; and the Helen Wills Neuroscience Institute, University of California, Berkeley, CA, US. Other research experience: Developmental Research Center, Department of Psychology, University of California, Davis, CA, US; Advanced training on MRI methods and neuroimaging analytical tools at the Athinoula A. Martinos Center of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT).

Kepa Paz-Alonso is an Ikerbasque Research Associate and the head of the Language and Memory Control (LMC) research group, a multidisciplinary team including cognitive neuroscientists, physicists and engineers. His research program uses functional and structural multimodal MRI techniques to investigate how higher cognitive functions result from interactions between different cognitive components, focusing mostly on language (reading, speech comprehension and production), attention and memory (semantic, episodic) across the life span in cognitively normal and clinical populations. He and his group also work on designing, developing and implementing new MRI methods. Kepa’s research experience includes 6 years of postdoctoral training in cognitive neuroscience and the use of advanced MRI techniques at international institutes such as the Center for Mind and Brain at the University of California (UC), Davis, and the Helen Wills Neuroscience Institute at UC Berkeley. He has an extensive network of national and international collaborators in different domains (i.e., cognitive neuroscience, network neuroscience, medical imaging and human neuroanatomy) with whom he conducts relevant multidisciplinary research projects and keep improving his scientific program. He has participated as PI, co-PI or collaborator in research projects funded by national (e.g., FIS, MICIN, MINECO, Basque Government, La Caixa Health Research) and international agencies (e.g., ERC, NSF).

Research group: Language and Memory Control

p.pazalonso@bcbl.eu

+34 943 309 300 Ext.: 218

2024

Martín-Signes, M., Paz-Alonso, P.M., Thiebaut de Schotten, M., & Chica, A.B. (2024). Integrating brain function and structure in the study of the human attentional networks: a functionnectome study. Brain Structure and Function, 229(7), 1665-1679. Doi:10.1007/s00429-024-02824-1

Wei, Y., Wang, J., Wang, H., & Paz-Alonso, P.M. (2024). Functional interactions underlying visuospatial orthographic processes in Chinese reading. Cerebral Cortex, 34(9). Doi:10.1093/cercor/bhae359

2023

Delgado-Alvarado, M., Ferrer-Gallardo, V.J., Paz-Alonso, P.M., Caballero-Gaudes, C., & Rodríguez-Oroz, M.C. (2023). Interactions between functional networks in Parkinson's disease mild cognitive impairment. Scientific Reports, 13(1). Doi:10.1038/s41598-023-46991-3

Sánchez, A., Carreiras, M., & Paz-Alonso, P.M. (2023). Word frequency and reading demands modulate brain activation in the inferior frontal gyrus. Scientific Reports, 13(1). Doi:10.1038/s41598-023-44420-z

Lerma-Usabiaga, G., Liu, M., Paz-Alonso, P.M., & Wandell, B.A. (2023). Reproducible Tract Profiles 2 (RTP2) suite, from diffusion MRI acquisition to clinical practice and research. Scientific Reports, 13(1). Doi:10.1038/s41598-023-32924-7

Narganes-Pineda, C., Paz-Alonso, P.M., Marotta, A., Lupiáñez, J., & Chica, A.B. (2023). Neural basis of social attention: common and distinct mechanisms for social and nonsocial orienting stimuli. Cerebral Cortex, 33(22), 11010-11024. Doi:10.1093/cercor/bhad339

Liu, M., Lerma-Usabiaga, G., Clascá, F., & Paz-Alonso, P.M. (2023). High-Resolution Tractography Protocol to Investigate the Pathways between Human Mediodorsal Thalamic Nucleus and Prefrontal Cortex. Journal of Neuroscience, 43(46), 7780-7798. Doi:10.1523/JNEUROSCI.0721-23.2023

Tregidgo, H.F.J., Soskic, S., Althonayan, J., Maffei, C., Van Leemput, K., Golland, P., Insausti, R., Lerma-Usabiaga, G., Caballero-Gaudes, C., Paz-Alonso, P.M., Yendiki, A., Alexander, D.C., Bocchetta, M., Rohrer, J.D., & Iglesias, J.E. (2023). Accurate Bayesian segmentation of thalamic nuclei using diffusion MRI and an improved histological atlas. NeuroImage, 274. Doi:10.1016/j.neuroimage.2023.120129

Carrión-Castillo, A., Paz-Alonso, P.M., & Carreiras, M. (2023). Brain structure, phenotypic and genetic correlates of reading performance. Nature Human Behaviour, 7(7), 1120-1134. Doi:10.1038/s41562-023-01583-z

Ludowicy, P., Czernochowski, D., Arnaez-Telleria, J., Gurunandan, K., Lachmann, T., & Paz-Alonso, P.M. (2023). Functional underpinnings of feedback-enhanced test-potentiated encoding. Cerebral Cortex, 33(10), 6184-6197. Doi:10.1093/cercor/bhac494

Rodriguez-San Esteban, P., Chica, A.B., & Paz-Alonso, P.M. (2023). Functional characterization of correct and incorrect feature integration. Cerebral Cortex, 33(4), 1440-1451. Doi:10.1093/cercor/bhac147

Gurunandan, K., Carreiras, M., & Paz-Alonso, P.M. (2023). Verbal production dynamics and plasticity: functional contributions of language and executive control systems. Cerebral Cortex, 33(3), 740-753. Doi:10.1093/cercor/bhac097

Ludowicy, P., Paz-Alonso, P.M., Lachmann, T., & Czernochowski, D. (2023). Performance feedback enhances test-potentiated encoding. Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience, 17. Doi:10.3389/fnbeh.2023.1100497

2022

Bergouignan, L., & Paz-Alonso, P.M. (2022). Simulating the situated-self drives hippocampo-cortical engagement during inner narration of events. Cerebral Cortex, 32(24), 5716-5731. Doi:10.1093/cercor/bhac047

Liu, M., Lerma-Usabiaga, G., Clascá, F., & Paz-Alonso, P.M. (2022). Reproducible protocol to obtain and measure first-order relay human thalamic white-matter tracts. NeuroImage, 262. Doi:10.1016/j.neuroimage.2022.119558

Branzi, F.M., Martin, C.D., & Paz-Alonso, P.M. (2022). Task-relevant representations and cognitive control demands modulate functional connectivity from ventral occipito-temporal cortex during object recognition tasks. Cerebral Cortex, 32(14), 3068-3080. Doi:10.1093/cercor/bhab401

Davis, C.P., Paz-Alonso, P.M., Altmann, G.T.M., & Yee, E. (2022). Encoding and inhibition of arbitrary episodic context with abstract concepts. Memory and Cognition, 50(3), 546-563. Doi:10.3758/s13421-021-01212-y

2021

Esteban-Peñalba, T., Paz-Alonso, P.M., Navalpotro-Gómez, I., & Rodríguez-Oroz, M.C. (2021). Functional correlates of response inhibition in impulse control disorders in Parkinson's disease. NeuroImage: Clinical, 32. Doi:10.1016/j.nicl.2021.102822

2020

Gurunandan, K., Arnaez-Telleria, J., Carreiras, M., & Paz-Alonso, P.M. (2020). Converging evidence for differential specialization and plasticity of language systems. Journal of Neuroscience, 40(50), 9715-9724. Doi:10.1523/JNEUROSCI.0851-20.2020

Paz-Alonso, P.M., Navalpotro-Gomez, I., Boddy, P., Dacosta-Aguayo, R., Delgado-Alvarado, M., Quiroga-Varela, A., Jimenez-Urbieta, H., Carreiras, M., & Rodriguez-Oroz, M.C. (2020). Functional inhibitory control dynamics in impulse control disorders in Parkinson's disease. Movement Disorders, 35(2), 316-325. Doi:10.1002/mds.27885

Navalpotro-Gomez, I., Kim, J., Paz-Alonso, P.M., Delgado-Alvarado, M., Quiroga-Varela, A., Jimenez-Urbieta, H., Carreiras, M., Strafella, A.P., & Rodriguez-Oroz, M.C. (2020). Disrupted salience network dynamics in Parkinson's disease patients with impulse control disorders. Parkinsonism and Related Disorders, 70, 74-81. Doi:10.1016/j.parkreldis.2019.12.009

Branzi, F.M., Martin, C.D., Carreiras, M., & Paz-Alonso, P.M. (2020). Functional connectivity reveals dissociable ventrolateral prefrontal mechanisms for the control of multilingual word retrieval. Human Brain Mapping, 41(1), 80-94. Doi:10.1002/hbm.24788

2019

Martín-Signes, M., Paz-Alonso, P.M., & Chica, A.B. (2019). Connectivity of Frontoparietal Regions Reveals Executive Attention and Consciousness Interactions. Cerebral Cortex, 29(11), 4539-4550. Doi:10.1093/cercor/bhy332

Gurunandan, K., Carreiras, M., & Paz-Alonso, P.M. (2019). Functional plasticity associated with language learning in adults. NeuroImage, 201. Doi:10.1016/j.neuroimage.2019.116040

Pozuelos, J.P., Combita, L.M., Abundis, A., Paz-Alonso, P.M., Conejero, Á., Guerra, S., & Rueda, M.R. (2019). Metacognitive scaffolding boosts cognitive and neural benefits following executive attention training in children. Developmental Science, 22(2). Doi:10.1111/desc.12756

Paz-Alonso, P.M., Oliver, M., Quiñones, I., & Carreiras, M. (2019). Neural basis of monolingual and bilingual reading. Oxford Handbook of Neurolinguistics, 1-27. Doi:10.1093/oxfordhb/9780190672027.013.24

Garay-Vitoria, N., Arruti, A., Martín, J.I., Muguerza, J., Garzo, A., Hernández, E., Alvarez, A., Arambarri, J., Paz-Alonso, P.M., Carreiras, M., & Ramos-Murguialday, A. (2019). Neuromodulation system in closed loop for enhancing the sleep and the memory consolidation. ACM International Conference Proceeding Series. Doi:10.1145/3335595.3335646

Davis, C., Paz-Alonso, P.M., Altmann, G.T.M., & Yee, E. (2019). Abstract concepts and the suppression of arbitrary episodic context. Proceedings of the 41st Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society: Creativity + Cognition + Computation, CogSci 2019, 1592-1598.

2018

Iglesias, J.E., Insausti, R., Lerma-Usabiaga, G., Bocchetta, M., Van Leemput, K., Greve, D.N., van der Kouwe, A., Fischl, B., Caballero-Gaudes, C., & Paz-Alonso, P.M. (2018). A probabilistic atlas of the human thalamic nuclei combining ex vivo MRI and histology. NeuroImage, 183, 314-326. Doi:10.1016/j.neuroimage.2018.08.012

Lerma-Usabiaga, G., Carreiras, M., & Paz-Alonso, P.M. (2018). Converging evidence for functional and structural segregation within the left ventral occipitotemporal cortex in reading. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 115(42), E9981-E9990. Doi:10.1073/pnas.1803003115

Soto, D., Theodoraki, M., & Paz-Alonso, P.M. (2018). How the human brain introspects about one's own episodes of cognitive control. Cortex, 107, 110-120. Doi:10.1016/j.cortex.2017.10.016

Chica, A.B., Thiebaut de Schotten, M., Bartolomeo, P., & Paz-Alonso, P.M. (2018). White matter microstructure of attentional networks predicts attention and consciousness functional interactions. Brain Structure and Function, 223(2), 653-668. Doi:10.1007/s00429-017-1511-2

Paz-Alonso, P.M., Oliver, M., Lerma-Usabiaga, G., Caballero-Gaudes, C., Quiñones, I., Suárez-Coalla, P., Duñabeitia, J.A., Cuetos, F., & Carreiras, M. (2018). Neural correlates of phonological, orthographic and semantic reading processing in dyslexia. NeuroImage: Clinical, 20, 433-447. Doi:10.1016/j.nicl.2018.08.018

2017

Oliver, M., Carreiras, M., & Paz-Alonso, P.M. (2017). Functional dynamics of dorsal and ventral reading networks in bilinguals. Cerebral Cortex, 27(12), 5431-5443. Doi:10.1093/cercor/bhw310

Iglesias, J.E., Lerma-Usabiaga, G., Garcia-Peraza-Herrera, L.C., Martinez, S., & Paz-Alonso, P.M. (2017). Retrospective head motion estimation in structural brain MRI with 3D CNNs. Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics), 10434 LNCS, 314-322. Doi:10.1007/978-3-319-66185-8_36

2016

Lerma-Usabiaga, G., Iglesias, J.E., Insausti, R., Greve, D.N., & Paz-Alonso, P.M. (2016). Automated segmentation of the human hippocampus along its longitudinal axis. Human Brain Mapping, 37(9), 3353-3367. Doi:10.1002/hbm.23245

Chica, A.B., Bayle, D.J., Botta, F., Bartolomeo, P., & Paz-Alonso, P.M. (2016). Interactions between phasic alerting and consciousness in the fronto-striatal network. Scientific Reports, 6. Doi:10.1038/srep31868

Paz-Alonso, P.M., & Goodman, G.S. (2016). Developmental Differences across Middle Childhood in Memory and Suggestibility for Negative and Positive Events. Behavioral Sciences and the Law, 34(1), 30-54. Doi:10.1002/bsl.2239

Iglesias, J.E., Paz-Alonso, P., Lerma-Usabiaga, G., Insausti, R., Miller, K., & Caballero-Gaudes, C. (2016). Simultaneous Bayesian correction of slab boundary artifacts and bias field for high resolution ex vivo MRI. Proceedings - International Symposium on Biomedical Imaging, 2016-June, 1384-1387. Doi:10.1109/ISBI.2016.7493525

2015

Lizarazu, M., Lallier, M., Molinaro, N., Bourguignon, M., Paz-Alonso, P.M., Lerma-Usabiaga, G., & Carreiras, M. (2015). Developmental evaluation of atypical auditory sampling in dyslexia: Functional and structural evidence. Human Brain Mapping, 36(12), 4986-5002. Doi:10.1002/hbm.22986

Duñabeitia, J.A., Lallier, M., Paz-Alonso, P.M., & Carreiras, M. (2015). The Impact of Literacy on Position Uncertainty. Psychological Science, 26(4), 548-550. Doi:10.1177/0956797615569890

Rueckl, J.G., Paz-Alonso, P.M., Molfese, P.J., Kuo, W.J., Bick, A., Frost, S.J., Hancock, R., Wu, D.H., Einar Mencl, W., Duñabeitia, J.A., Lee, J.R., Oliver, M., Zevin, J.D., Hoeft, F., Carreiras, M., Tzeng, O.J.L., Pugh, K.R., & Frost, R. (2015). Universal brain signature of proficient reading: Evidence from four contrasting languages. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 112(50), 15510-15515. Doi:10.1073/pnas.1509321112

Molinaro, N., Paz-Alonso, P.M., Duñabeitia, J.A., & Carreiras, M. (2015). Combinatorial semantics strengthens angular-anterior temporal coupling. Cortex, 65, 113-127. Doi:10.1016/j.cortex.2015.01.004

2014

Pozuelos, J.P., Paz-Alonso, P.M., Castillo, A., Fuentes, L.J., & Rueda, M.R. (2014). Development of attention networks and their interactions in childhood. Developmental Psychology, 50(10), 2405-2415. Doi:10.1037/a0037469

Chica, A.B., Valero-Cabré, A., Paz-Alonso, P.M., & Bartolomeo, P. (2014). Causal contributions of the left frontal eye field to conscious perception. Cerebral Cortex, 24(3), 745-753. Doi:10.1093/cercor/bhs357

2013

Paz-Alonso, P.M., Goodman, G.S., & Ibabe, I. (2013). Adult eyewitness memory and compliance: Effects of post-event misinformation on memory for a negative event. Behavioral Sciences and the Law, 31(5), 541-558. Doi:10.1002/bsl.2081

Paz-Alonso, P.M., Ghetti, S., Ramsay, I., Solomon, M., Yoon, J., Carter, C.S., & Ragland, J.D. (2013). Semantic processes leading to true and false memory formation in schizophrenia. Schizophrenia Research, 147(2-3), 320-325. Doi:10.1016/j.schres.2013.04.007

Paz-Alonso, P.M., Bunge, S.A., Anderson, M.C., & Ghetti, S. (2013). Strength of coupling within a mnemonic control network differentiates those who can and cannot suppress memory retrieval. Journal of Neuroscience, 33(11), 5017-5026. Doi:10.1523/JNEUROSCI.3459-12.2013

Paz-Alonso, P.M., Gallego, P., & Ghetti, S. (2013). Age differences in hippocampus-cortex connectivity during true and false memory retrieval.. Journal of the International Neuropsychological Society : JINS, 19(10), 1031-1041. Doi:10.1017/S1355617713001069

Chica, A.B., Paz-Alonso, P.M., Valero-Cabré, A., & Bartolomeo, P. (2013). Neural bases of the interactions between spatial attention and conscious perception. Cerebral Cortex, 23(6), 1269-1279. Doi:10.1093/cercor/bhs087

2009

Paz-Alonso, P.M., Ghetti, S., Matlen, B.J., Anderson, M.C., & Bunge, S.A. (2009). Memory suppression is an active process that improves over childhood. Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, 3(SEP). Doi:10.3389/neuro.09.024.2009

2008

Paz-Alonso, P.M., Ghetti, S., Donohue, S.E., Goodman, G.S., & Bunge, S.A. (2008). Neurodevelopmental correlates of true and false recognition. Cerebral Cortex, 18(9), 2208-2216. Doi:10.1093/cercor/bhm246

Paz-Alonso, P.M., & Goodman, G.S. (2008). Trauma and memory: Effects of post-event misinformation, retrieval order, and retention interval. Memory, 16(1), 58-75. Doi:10.1080/09658210701363146

2005

Sarasqueta, C., Gabaldon, O., Iza, I., Béland, F., & Paz, P.M. (2005). Cross-cultural adaptation and validation of the NASS outcomes instrument in Spanish patients with low back pain. European Spine Journal, 14(6), 586-594. Doi:10.1007/s00586-004-0871-5

2002

De Paúl, J., Pérez-Albéniz, A., Paz, P.M., Alday, N., & Mocoroa, I. (2002). Memories of child maltreatment in perpetrators of child abuse and child abuse potential in victims of child physical and sexual abuse. Psicothema, 14(1), 53-62.

2023

Sistema TCO: Tomografía de Coherencia Óptica

Program: RED INVERSION 2022, FA 295/2O22
Funding agency: Diputación Foral de Gipuzkoa
01/2023- 10/2023
Funding: 37.576 €
PI: Pedro M. Paz-Alonso

2022

Bases cerebrales del mantenimiento de los efectos beneficiosos del entrenamiento en capacidades cognitivas superiores en mayores

Program: RED I+D 2022, FA/OF 422/2022
Funding agency: Diputación Foral de Gipuzkoa
10/2022- 09/2023
Funding: 64.099 €
PI: Pedro M. Paz-Alonso
MultiCRCI: MultiModal Cancer Related Cognitive Impairment

Program: Gipuzkoa Next 2022, FA OF 94/2022
Funding agency: Diputación Foral de Gipuzkoa
10/2022- 10/2023
Funding: 148.440 €
PI: Ruzzoli M. co-PI: Molinaro N. collaborators: Paz-Alonso; Carreiras
ToTMRI: Tip-of-the-tongue experiences as a window to investigate the neural basis of semantic and episodic memory retrieval

Program: Plan Nacional 2021, PID2021-123574NB-I00
Funding agency: Spanish Ministry
09/2022- 08/2025
Funding: 114.708 €
PI: Pedro M. Paz-Alonso Team member: Ane Gurtubay
Centro de Excelencia Severo Ochoa: BCBL

Program: CEX2020-001010-S
Funding agency: Spanish Ministry
01/2022- 12/2025
Funding: 4.000.000 €
PI: Prof. Manuel Carreiras Guarantors: Pedro M. Paz-Alonso, Cesar Caballero-Gaudes, Brendan Costello, Marina Kalashnikova, Marie Lallier, Nicola Molinaro, Craig G. Richter, Arthur G. Samuel, Clara Martin, & Ram Frost.

2021

Contribution of magnocecullar and parvocellular visual systems to normal reading and dyslexia

Program: Proyectos de Investigación Básica y/o Aplicada (PIBA), PIBA_2021_1_0003
Funding agency: Basque Government
07/2021- 07/2024
Funding: 50.000 €
Pedro M. Paz-Alonso

2019

THALANG: Functional and structural contributions of the thalamus to language systems across development

Program: Plan Nacional 2018, PGC2018-093408-B-I00
Funding agency: Spanish Ministry
01/2019- 12/2021
Funding: 70.000 €
PI: Kepa Paz-Alonso
Typical and atypical reading and thalamocortical interactions

Program: Convocatoria de Proyectos de Investigación en Neurociencia 2018
Funding agency: Tatiana Peréz de Gúzman el Bueno
01/2019- 12/2021
Funding: 47.850 €
PI: Kepa Paz-Alonso Co-PI: Manuel Carreiras

2018

Entrenamiento de capacidades cognitivas superiores en mayores: efectos conductuales y bases cerebrales

Program: Adinberri 2018, OF 301/2018
Funding agency: Diputación Foral de Gipuzkoa
10/2018- 09/2019
Funding: 83.435 €
PI: Kepa Paz-Alonso

2017

Atlas Multimodal de Núcleos Talámicos y su Aplicación al Estudio de la Dislexia

Program: Proyectos de investigación básica y/o aplicada (PIBA), PI_2016_1_0012
Funding agency: Basque Government
01/2017- 01/2019
Funding: 57.791 €
PI: Kepa Paz-Alonso

2016

Centro de Excelencia Severo Ochoa: BCBL

Program: SEV-2015-0490
Funding agency: Spanish Ministry
01/2016- 01/2019
Funding: 4.000.000 €
PI: Prof. Manuel Carreiras Guarantors: Arthur Samuel, David Soto, Clara D. Martin, Nicola Molinaro, Mari Cruz Rodriguez-Oroz, Marie Lallier, Kepa Paz-Alonso, Doug Davidson, Simona Mancini & Loretxu Bergouignan
MAGNO: Neurodevelopment of magnocecullar and parvocellular visual pathways and their contribution to visual recognition and typical and atypical reading

Program: Plan Nacional 2015, PSI2015-65696-P
Funding agency: Spanish Ministry
01/2016- 12/2018
Funding: 72.700 €
PI: Kepa Paz-Alonso

2015

Neurobiologia de la producción del lenguaje en condiciones de complejidad variable

Program: RED I+D 2015, EXP.65/15
Funding agency: Diputación Foral de Gipuzkoa
10/2015- 09/2016
Funding: 35.962 €
PI: Kepa Paz-Alonso

2013

NEM: Neurodevelopmental Bases of Episodic Memory Retrieval

Program: Plan Nacional 2012, PSI2012-32093
Funding agency: Spanish Ministry
01/2013- 12/2015
Funding: 50.000 €
PI: Kepa Paz-Alonso

2012

Bi-Literacy: Learning to read in L1 and L2

Program: European Research Council (ERC), ERC-2011-ADG_295362
Funding agency: European Commission (European Research Council)
04/2012- 04/2017
Funding: 2.487.000 €
PI: Manuel Carreiras Team members: Clara D. Martin, Nicola Molinaro, Pedro M. Paz-Alonso, Jon A. Duñabeitia, Sendy Caffarra, Brendan Costello
LangMind - Language and Mind

Program: Gaitek, LangMind
Funding agency: Basque Government
01/2012- 12/2014
Funding: 52.920 €
PI: Manuel Carreiras Team members: Kepa Paz-Alonso & Nicola Molinaro
Desarrollo de los Mecanismos Neuronales Implicados en la Retención y Recuperación de Memorias a Largo Plazo

Program: Proyectos de Investigación Básica y/o Aplicada (PIBA), PI2012-15
Funding agency: Basque Government
01/2012- 12/2013
Funding: 45.090 €
PI: Kepa Paz-Alonso

2009

Entrenamiento de la atención en niños en edad preescolar: Efectos neurocognitivos, generalización a otros dominios y moduladores constitucionales

Program: Plan Nacional 2008, PSI2008-02955
Funding agency: Spanish Ministry
01/2009- 12/2011
Funding: 110.000 €
PIs: Maria Rosario Rueda & Kepa Paz-Alonso

2008

Cognicion y Educacion - COEDUCA - CONSOLIDER INGENIO-2010 CSD2008-00048

Program: Cognicion y Educacion (COEDUCA), CSD2008-00048
Funding agency: Spanish Ministry
12/2008- 12/2013
Funding: 4.000.000 €
PI: Manuel Carreiras Team members: Clara Martin, Nicola Molinaro, Marie Lallier, Kepa Paz-Alonso & Simona Mancini

Ramon y Cajal Fellow (01/2016 - 12/2020), Spanish Ministry of Economy and Competitiveness. BCBL - Basque Center on Cognition, Brain & Language, Donostia-San Sebastián. Spain.

Juan de la Cierva Fellow (01/2008 - 12/2010), Spanish Ministry of Science and Innovation. Helen Wills Neuroscience Institute, UC Berkeley; University of Granada., USA/Spain.

In progress

Differences in the magnocellular and parvocellular visual pathways in individuals with varying reading abilities University of the Basque Country, UPV/EHU (2023 - 2028)

Involvement of visual pathways in global and local processes and reading University of the Basque Country, UPV/EHU (2023 - 2028)

Attention to memory: disentangling attentional and memory retrieval processes University of the Basque Country, UPV/EHU (2023 - 2027)

Contribution of anterior and posterior visual systems to reading University of the Basque Country, UPV/EHU (2023 - 2027)

Integrating EEG and fMRI: predicting thalamic BOLD responses in visual and auditory tasks using machine learning University of the Basque Country, UPV/EHU (2023 - 2027)

Quantifying reading circuits in the ventral occipitotemporal cortex University of the Basque Country, UPV/EHU (2022 - 2026)

Tip-of-the-tongue as a gateway to investigate the neurobiological basis of transient memory retrieval failures University of the Basque Country, UPV/EHU (2022 - 2026)

Whole lifespan characterization of neural bases of relational episodic memory encoding and retrieval University of the Basque Country, UPV/EHU (2022 - 2026)

Understanding and identifying developmental dyslexia through thalamic properties and thalamocortical projections using machine learning University of the Basque Country, UPV/EHU (2021 - 2025)

Structural gray-and white-matter dynamic of the human thalamus: nuclei and projection bundles across the lifespan University of the Basque Country, UPV/EHU (2020 - 2024)

Defended

Concepts are built from percepts: Neural mechanisms supporting sub-lexical to lexico-semantic processing University of the Basque Country, UPV/EHU (2020 - 2024)

Multimodal-MRI cognitive and motor components of Parkinson's Disease mild cognitive impairment University of the Basque Country, UPV/EHU (2020 - 2024)

The dynamic nature of conceptual representations in the human brain University of the Basque Country, UPV/EHU (2018 - 2023)

Human thalamocortical connections and their involvement in language systems University of the Basque Country, UPV/EHU (2018 - 2022)

Neural plasticity of language systems: Evidence from fMRI experiments with adult language learners University of the Basque Country, UPV/EHU (2017 - 2021)

Magnocellular and parvocellular visual pathways’ involvement in reading University of the Basque Country, UPV/EHU (2016 - 2021)

Neural correlates of impulse control disorder in Parkinson’s Disease: fMRI evidence from motor, inhibition and semantic domains University of the Basque Country, UPV/EHU (2016 - 2021)

The relationship between context and conceptual access University of the Basque Country, UPV/EHU (2013 - 2020)

Multimodal MRI characterization of visual word recognition: an integrative view University of the Basque Country, UPV/EHU (2012 - 2017)

Neural correlates of bilingual reading: Effects of orthographic depth and age of acquisition of a second language in brain function and structure University of the Basque Country, UPV/EHU (2012 - 2016)

2023

Neural correlates of relational memory formation University of Amsterdam (UvA), Netherlands

Thalamic nuclei development and their involvement in language development over middle childhood University of the Baque Country, UPV/EHU

2022

Functional and structural connectivity between parietal cortex and ventral occipitotemporal cortex University of the Basque Country

The role of occipito-frontal connectivity in visual recognition University of the Basque Country

2021

Effect of cognitive training on middle childhood resting-state functional connectivity University of the Basque Country, UPV/EHU

Functional correlates of transient semantic and episodic retrieval failures University of the Basque Country, UPV/EHU

White-matter connections between the ventral occipito-temporal cortex and the inferior frontal gyrus University of the Basque Country, UPV/EHU

2020

Functional plasticity in verbal fluency: the influence of language proficiency and task difficulty University of Amsterdam

Negative life experiences and aging: Effects on hippocampal subfield volumes University of the Basque Country, UPV/EHU

2019

An fMRI examination of Verbal Fluency in Basque: Neural effects of training and difficulty on three types of guided lexical retrieval University of the Basque Country, UPV/EHU

Developmental trajectories of thalamic nuclei across the life span Tecnum, School of Engineering, University of Navarra

Verbal working memory: does updating take place in space? University of the Basque Country, UPV/EHU

2018

Differential functional connectivity within the reading and speech networks: Evidence from four contrastive languages University of the Basque Country, UPV/EHU

2017

Hippocampal contributions to reading processes University of the Basque Country, UPV/EHU

2016

Neural correlates of verse improvisation: An FMRI study on creativity and bertsolarism University of the Basque Country, UPV/EHU

2015

Neural correlates underlying the testing-effect University of the Basque Country, UPV/EHU

2014

Age-related improvements in item-specific and relational memory: The role of binding operations, semantic processing and high cognitive functions University of the Basque Country, UPV/EHU

Does trainning on higher cognitive functions change patterns of brain connectivity at rest during middle childhood? University of the Basque Country, UPV/EHU

2024

Ciardo, E., González-Pérez, M.F., Paz-Alonso, P.M., Carreiras, M., & Ruzzoli, M. (2024). The neural markers of mild cognitive impairment in breast cancer patients: a multimodal approach to detect, predict and monitor. Poster presentation at Sociedad Española de Psicología Experimental (SEPEX) 2024. Almeria, Spain.

Lecca-Villacorta, L., Chica, A.B., Lerma-Usabiaga, G., & Paz-Alonso, P.M. (2024). Neural correlates of the pulvinar and mediodorsal thalamus in visual search guided by explicit and implicit cues. Poster presentation at Sociedad Española de Psicología Experimental (SEPEX) 2024. Almeria, Spain.

Lei, Y.N., Linhardt. D., Paz-Alonso P.M., & Lerma-Usabiaga, G. (2024). Quantification of reading circuits in the ventral occipitotemporal cortex. Poster presentation at Neurogune 2024 meeting, Donostia, Spain

Lei, Y., Linhardt, D., Paz-Alonso, P.M., & Lerma-Usabiaga, G. (2024). Quantification of reading circuits in the ventral occipitotemporal cortex. Poster presentation at Vision Science Society (VSS) 2024 Annual Meeting, St. Petersburg, Florida, USA.

Linhardt, D., Lei, Y., Paz-Alonso, P.M., Wandell, B., Windischberger, C., & Lerma-Usabiaga, G. (2024). Comparing pRF mapping estimates for words and checker patterns. Poster presentation at Vision Science Society (VSS) 2024 Annual Meeting, St. Petersburg, Florida, USA.

Lecca-Villacorta, L., Paz-Alonso, P.M., & Lerma-Usabiaga, G. (2024). Structural dynamics of human thalamocortical projections across the lifespan. Poster presentation at Thalamocortical Networks (ThalNet) 2024 Conference, San Sebastián, Spain

Barry, J., Ferrer, E., Lerma-Usabiaga, G., & Paz-Alonso, P. M. (2024). Transient semantic memory retrieval failures: Factors associated with the tip-of-the-tongue phenomenon. Poster presentation at Cognitive Neuroscience Society (CNS) 2024 Annual Meeting, Toronto, Canada.

Gurtubay-Antolin, A., Merhej, D., Zhai, M., Fischer-Baum, S., & Paz-Alonso, P.M. (2024). Hippocampal involvement in reading. Poster presentation at Cognitive Neuroscience Society (CNS) 2024 Annual Meeting, Toronto, Canada.

Paz-Alonso, P.M., Mengxing, L., & Gurtubay-Antolin, A. (2024). Thalamic contributions to working memory. Poster presentation at Cognitive Neuroscience Society (CNS) 2024 Annual Meeting, Toronto, Canada.

Rodríguez-Gonzalo, S., & Paz-Alonso, P.M. (2024). Thalamocortical interactions in episodic relational memory across the lifespan. Poster presentation at Cognitive Neuroscience Society (CNS) 2024 Annual Meeting, Toronto, Canada.

Rodríguez-Gonzalo, S., & Paz-Alonso, P.M. (2024). Involvement of human anterior and mediodorsal thalamus in episodic memory recollection and familiarity across the lifespan. Poster presentation at Thalamocortical Networks (ThalNet) 2024 Conference, San Sebastián, Spain.

Lerma-Usabiaga, G., Lecca, L., & Paz-Alonso, P.M (2024). Structural dynamics of human cortico-subcortical connections across the lifespan: the case of thalamocortical projections. Oral presentation at Sociedad Española de Psicología Experimental (SEPEX) 2024. Almeria, Spain.

Paz-Alonso, P.M., Mengxing, L., & Lerma-Usabiaga, G. (2024). Advanced MRI protocols to study subcortical contributions to cognition: The thalamus and language function. Oral presentation at Sociedad Española de Psicología Experimental (SEPEX) 2024. Almeria, Spain.

Carrión-Castillo A., Lallier M., Paz-Alonso, P.M. & Carreiras, M. (2024). Genetics of reading correlates. Oral presentation at British Dyslexia Association International Conference 2024: Dimensions of Dyslexia: Evidence and Practice. University of Surrey, Guildford, UK.

2023

Sánchez, A., Paz-Alonso, P.M., Carreiras, M. (2023). Neural representations of lexico-semantic knowledge: word frequency, familiarity and concreteness. Poster presentation at Organization for Human Brain Mapping (OHBM) 2023 Meeting, Montreal, Canada.

Ibarbia-Garate, M., & Paz-Alonso, P.M. (2023). A parvocellular-magnocellular functional gradient in human visual cortex. Poster presentation at Society for the Neurobiology of Language (SNL) 2023, Marseille, France.

Lecca-Villacorta, L., Lerma-Usabiaga, G., & Paz-Alonso, P.M. (2023). Thalamic changes in gray- and white-matter over the lifespan related to language development. Poster presentation at Society for the Neurobiology of Language (SNL) 2023, Marseille, France.

Lei, Y.N., Paz-Alonso P.M., & Lerma-Usabiaga, G. (2023). Quantification of reading circuits in the ventral occipitotemporal cortex. Poster presentation at Society for the Neurobiology of Language (SNL) 2023, Marseille, France.

Mengxing, L., Lerma-Usabiaga, G., & Paz- Alonso, P.M. (2023). Involvement of first-order thalamic nuclei in human language systems: Functional and structural correlates. Poster presentation at Society for the Neurobiology of Language (SNL) 2023, Marseille, France.

Pinet, S., Paz-Alonso, P.M., & Martin, C.D. (2023). Touch typing changes the way you speak: interactions between modalities of language production. Poster presentation at Society for the Neurobiology of Language (SNL) 2023, Marseille, France.

Ferrer-Gallardo, V., Delgado-Alvarado, M., Paz-Alonso, P.M., Rodriguez-Oroz, M.C., & Caballero-Gaudes, C. (2023). Innovation coactivation patterns affected in Parkinson`s Disease mild cognitive impairment. Poster presentation at ISMRM 2023 Workshop on Current Issues in Brain Function, Padua, Italy.

Ferrer-Gallardo, V., Yendiki, A., Paz-Alonso, P.M., & Caballero-Gaudes, C. (2023). Microstructural changes in anterior thalamic radiations in Parkinson’s disease cognitive decline. Poster presentation at Organization for Human Brain Mapping (OHBM) 2023 Meeting, Montreal, Canada.

Rodriguez-Gonzalo, S., & Paz-Alonso, P.M. (2023). Impact of semantic memory on episodic relational binding during healthy aging. Poster presentation at Organization for Human Brain Mapping (OHBM) 2023 Meeting, Montreal, Canada.

Ferrer-Gallardo, V., Yendiki, A., Paz-Alonso, P.M., & Caballero-Gaudes, C. (2023). Anterior thalamic radiations changes in Parkinson’s disease. Poster presentation at ISMRM Iberian Chapter Annual Meeting 2023, Valladolid, Spain.

Pinet, S., Paz-Alonso, K., Martin, C. (2023). Producing words through speaking or typing: what does it change? Poster presentation at International Symposium of Psycholinguistics. Vitoria-Gasteiz, Spain

Linhardt, D., Windischberger, C., Paz-Alonso, P.M., & Lerma-Usabiaga, G. (2023). Simple, automatized and reproducible pRF analysis. Poster presentation at Vision Sciences Society (VSS) 2023 Meeting, St. Pete Beach, Florida, USA.

Gallo A., Carrión-Castillo A., Mengxing L., Paz-Alonso P.M. (2023). Longitudinal development of thalamic nuclei over childhood. Oral presentation at Thalamus Anatomy and Connectomics Conference, Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems. Tübingen, Germany

Paz-Alonso, P.M. (2023). Involvement of the human thalamus in language and cognitive function. Invited talk at the Forum: Bridging East and West: Cutting-Edge Perspectives in Language and Cognitive Science, Center for the Cognitive Science of Language. Beijing, China.

Paz-Alonso, P.M. (2023). A cognitive neuroscience approach to the structure and function of the human thalamus. Invited talk at IV Symposium Fernando Reinoso Suárez, Fundación Tatiana, Madrid, Spain.

Paz-Alonso, P.M., & Rodríguez-Gonzalo, S. (2023). Impact of semantic knowledge on episodic relational memory over development. Poster presentation at Jean Piaget Society Conference, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Madrid, Spain.

Paz-Alonso, P.M. (2023). Involvement of magnocellular and parvocellular visual pathways. Invited talk at Biocruces-Bizkaia Health Research Institute, Bilbao, Spain.

2022

Lerma-Usabiaga, G., Carreiras, M., & Paz-Alonso, P.M. (2022). Characterization of the right ventral occipito-temporal reading network. Poster presentation at the Annual meeting of the Cognitive Neuroscience Society (CNS). San Francisco, USA.

Lerma-Usabiaga, G., Vianna de Almeida, R., Carreiras, M., & Paz-Alonso, P.M. (2022). White-matter connections between ventral occipito-temporal cortex and inferior frontal gyrus. Poster presentation at International APPE-SEPEX meeting. APPE, SEPEX, Faro, Portugal.

Carrión-Castillo, A., Paz-Alonso, P.M., & Carreiras, M. (2022). Brain Structure, phenotypic and genetic correlates of reading. Poster presentation at Neurogune 2022 Meeting, Universidad de Navarra (UNAV), Centro de Investigación Médica Aplicada (CIMA,) and Clínica Universidad de Navarra (CUN), Achucarro Basque Center for Neuroscience, Pamplona, Spain.

Ferrer-Gallardo, V., Esteban-Peñalba, T., Caballero-Gaudes, C., & Paz-Alonso, P.M. (2022). Thalamic volume and lateralization on Parkinson Disease associated with cognitive and motor deficits. Poster presentation at International Society for Magnetic Resonance in Medicine (ISMRM 2022), London, United Kingdom.

Ferrer-Gallardo, V., Esteban-Peñalba, T., Caballero-Gaudes, C., & Paz-Alonso, P.M. (2022). Thalamic volume and lateralization on Parkinson Disease associated with cognitive and motor deficits. Poster presentation at Organization for Human Brain Mapping (OHBM) 2022 Meeting, Glasgow, United Kingdom.

Lerma-Usabiaga, G., Liu, M., Clasca, F., & Paz-Alonso, P.M. (2022). Reproducible protocol to obtain and estimate first-order human white-matter thalamocortical tracts. Poster presentation at Thalamocortical Interactions (GRS) Conference. Lucca, Italy.

Liu, M., Lerma-Usabiaga, G., & Paz-Alonso, P.M. (2022). Differential involvement of first-order thalamic nuclei in human language systems. Poster presentation at Thalamocortical Interactions (GRS) Conference. Lucca, Italy.

Carrera-Arias, F.J., & Paz-Alonso, P.M. (2022). Conditions influencing the choice of functional connectivity method for task-related fMRI designs. Poster presentation at Organization for Human Brain Mapping (OHBM) 2022 Meeting, Glasgow, United Kingdom.

Liu, M., Lerma-Usabiaga, G., & Paz-Alonso, P.M. (2022). Differential involvement of first-order thalamic nuclei in human language systems. Poster presentation at Organization for Human Brain Mapping (OHBM) 2022 Meeting, Glasgow, United Kingdom.

Rodríguez-San Esteban, P., Chica, A., & Paz-Alonso, P.M. (2022). Parieto-occipital connectivity during correct and incorrect feature integration. Poster presentation at APPE-SEPEX Meeting 2022, Faro, Portugal.

Rodríguez-Gonzalo, S., & Paz-Alonso, P.M. (2022). Functional interactions between semantic and episodic memory retrieval in relational binding. Poster presentation at Cognitive Neuroscience Society (CNS) 2022 Annual Meeting. San Francisco, USA.

Liu, M., Lerma-Usabiaga, G., & Paz-Alonso, P.M. (2022). Differential involvement of first-order thalamic nuclei in human language systems. Oral presentation at Thalamocortical Interactions (GRS) Conference. Lucca, Italy.

Paz-Alonso, P.M. (2022). Involvement of magnocellular and parvocellular pathways in reading. Invited talk at Centro de Investigación en Mente, Cerebro y Comportamiento (CIMCYC), University of Granada, Spain.

Paz-Alonso, P.M. (2022). Functional specialization and plasticity in adult language learners. Invited talk at Max Planck Institute for Human Development, Berlin, Germany.

2021

Esteban-Peñalba, T., Paz-Alonso, P.M., Navalpotro-Gomez, I., Rodriguez-Oroz, M.C. (2021). Functional correlates of response inhibition in impulse control disorders in Parkinson’s disease. Poster presentation at SfN Global Connectome, Virtual Conference, Society for Neuroscience.

Gurunandan, K., Carreiras, M., & Paz-Alonso, P.M. (2021). Network interaction dynamics in language production. Poster presentation at Cognitive Neuroscience Society Annual Meeting (virtual)

Gurunandan, K., Carreiras, M., & Paz-Alonso, P.M. (2021). Network dynamics during speech production. Poster presentation at Organization for Human Brain Mapping Annual Meeting (virtual)

Mancini, S., Carreiras, M., Caballero-Gaudés, C., Termenon, M., & Paz-Alonso, P.M. (2021). Neural correlates of left and right branching. Poster presentation at Society for the Neurobiology of Language Annual 13th Meeting (SNL 2021), Virtual Conference.

Pinet, S., Liu, M., Martin, C., & Paz-Alonso, P.M. (2021). Functional correlates of oral and written language production. Poster presentation at Cognitive Neuroscience Society annual meeting (CNS 2021), Virtual Conference.

Sánchez, A., Carreiras, M., & Paz-Alonso, P.M. (2021). Reading demands modulate brain responses to word frequency: an fMRI study. Poster presentation at Society for the Neurobiology of Language (SNL) 2021, Virtual Conference.

Esteban-Peñalba, T., Paz-Alonso, P.M., Navalpotro-Gomez, I., & Rodriguez-Oroz, M.C. (2021). Compensatory functional mechanisms of response inhibition in PD with impulse control disorders. Poster presentation at Movement Disorders Society Virtual Congress 2021

Carrión-Castillo, A., Paz-Alonso, P.M., & Carreiras M. (2021). Brain structure, phenotypic and genetic correlates of reading. Poster presentation at Organization for Human Brain Mapping (OHBM) 2021 Meeting, Virtual Conference.

Carrión-Castillo, A., Paz-Alonso, P.M., & Carreiras, M. (2021). Brain Structure, phenotypic and genetic correlates of reading. Oral presentation at the 2021 Virtual World Congress of Psychiatric Genetics. International Society of Psychiatric Genetics (ISPG)

Ferrer-Gallardo, V.J., Bolton, T., Delgado, M., Paz-Alonso, P.M., Rodriguez-Oroz, M., & Caballero-Gaudes, C. (2021). Distinct cognitive and anthropometric functional connectivity traits of cognitive decline in Parkinson's disease using partial least squares. Oral presentation at ISMRM 2021 Annual Meeting & Exhibition. Virtual Conference.

2020

Termenon, M., Moia, S., Paz-Alonso, P.M., Molinaro, N., Mancini, S., Mazoyer, B., Tzourio-Mazoyer, N., Crivello, F., Carreiras, M., & Caballero-Gaudes, C. (2020). Implications of handedness on language brain lateralization in early bilinguals. Poster presentation at Organization for Human Brain Mapping (2020 OHBM), Montreal, Canada,

Ibarbia, M., & Paz-Alonso, P.M. (2020). Developmental trajectories of magnocellular and parvocellular pathways and their contribution to reading. Poster presentation at Society for the Neurobiology of Language (SNL) 2020, Virtual Conference.

Pinet, S., Martin, C.D., & Paz-Alonso, P.M. (2020). A systematic investigation of oral and written language production in fMRI. Poster presentation at Society for the Neurobiology of Language Annual 12th Meeting (SNL 2020), Virtual conference.

Gurunandan, K., Carreiras, M., & Paz-Alonso, P.M. (2020). Functional specialisation and plasticity of language systems: converging evidence from language learning experiments. Poster presentation at Society for Neurobiology of Language Annual Meeting (virtual).

Ibarbia, M., Gurunandan, K., Carreiras, M., & Paz-Alonso, P.M. (2020). Contribution of semantic memory and fluid reasoning to creativity problem solving in chefs. Poster presentation at Society for Neuroscience of Creativity Annual Meeting (virtual).

Bergouignan, L., Carreiras, M., & Paz-Alonso, P.M. (2020). Cumulating negative experiences induces structural changes in the left hippocampal dentate gyrus-CA3 and self related cortical areas. Poster presentation at Cognitive Neuroscience Society (CNS) 2020 Annual Meeting, Virtual Conference.

Ferrer-Gallardo, V., Delgado, M., Navalpotro, I., Moia, S., Carreiras, M., Paz-Alonso, P.M., Rodriguez-Oroz, M.C., & Caballero-Gaudes, C. (2020). Characteristic traits of mild cognitive impairment in Parkinson's Disease. Poster presentation at Cognitive Neuroscience Society (CNS) 2020 Annual Meeting, Virtual Conference.

Ibarbia, M., & Paz-Alonso, P.M. (2020). Role of magnocellular and parvocellular visual pathways in object and word recognition. Poster presentation at Cognitive Neuroscience Society (CNS) 2020 Annual Meeting, Virtual Conference.

Termenon, M., Moia, S., Paz-Alonso, P.M., Molinaro, N., Mancini, S., Carrión-Castillo, A., Mazoyer, B., Tzourio-Mazoyer, N., Crivello, F., Carreiras, M., & Caballero-Gaudes C. (2020). Covert sentence production in early bilinguals: A study in left and right handed participants. Poster presentation at Cognitive Neuroscience Society (CNS) 2020 Annual Meeting, Virtual Conference.

Esteban-Peñalba, T., Paz-Alonso, P.M., Navalpotro-Gomez, I., Boddy, P., Dacosta-Aguayo, R., Carreiras, M., Rodriguez-Oroz, M.C. (2020). Correlatos funcionales de inhibición de respuesta proactiva y contenida en la enfermedad de Parkinson con trastorno de control de impulsos. Oral presentation at the Sociedad Española de Neurología LXXII Annual Meeting. Virtual Meeting.

Paz-Alonso, P.M. (2020). Functional specialization and plasticity in monolingual and bilingual populations. Invited talk at Language Acquisition, Cognition and Brain Science Forum, Center for the Cognitive Science of Language. Beijing, China.

2019

Liu, M., Wang, X., Zhang, X., Zhang, R., Paz-Alonso, P.M., & Yang, J. (2019). Semantic integration during language comprehension in natural contexts. Poster presentation at the Eleventh Annual Meeting of the Society for the Neurobiology of Language (SNL 2019), Helsinki, Finland.

Ludowicy, P., Paz-Alonso, P.M., Lachmann, T., & Czernochowski, D. (2019). Performance feedback enhances test potentiated encoding: An event-related potential study on the testing effect. Poster presentation at the 21st ESCoP conference, Tenerife, Spain.

Arnaez-Telleria, J., Mezer, A., & Paz-Alonso, P.M. (2019). Neurodevelopmental changes in qMRI measures in hippocampal and cortical regions. Poster presentation at Organization for Human Brain Mapping (2019 OHBM), Rome, Italy.

Arnaez-Telleria, J., & Paz-Alonso, P.M. (2019). Developmental changes and neural correlates of associative, spatial and temporal relational memory. Poster presentation at the Cognitive Neuroscience Society (CNS 2019) annual meeting. San Francisco, USA.

Bergouignan, L., Carreiras, M., & Paz-Alonso, P.M. (2019). Our inner-speech language interacts with our reality tag in the episodic hippocampal system. Poster presentation at Organization for Human Brain Mapping (2019 OHBM), Rome, Italy.

Hartzell, J.F., & Paz-Alonso, P.M. (2019). Tip-of-the-Tongue: A window into neural interactions between memory and language systems. Poster presentation at the Eleventh Annual Meeting of the Society for the Neurobiology of Language (SNL 2019), Helsinki, Finland.

Gurunandan, K., Carreiras, M., & Paz-Alonso, P.M. (2019). Differential neuroplasticity of language systems in late language acquisition. Poster presentation at Cognitive Neuroscience Society Annual Meeting, San Francisco, U.S.A.

Gurunandan, K., Ibarbia, M., Carreiras, M., & Paz-Alonso, P.M. (2019). Structural correlates of creativity training in chefs. Poster presentation at Organization for Human Brain Mapping Annual Meeting, Rome, Italy.

Gurunandan, K., Ibarbia, M., Carreiras, M., & Paz-Alonso, P.M. (2019). Structural changes induced by creativity training. Poster presentation at Society for Neuroscience of Creativity Annual Meeting, San Francisco, USA. (NSF-funded Travel Award)

Ibarbia, M., Gurunandan, K., Carreiras, M., & Paz-Alonso, P.M. (2019). Functional contributions to general and specific creative problem solving. Poster presentation at Society for Neuroscience of Creativity Annual Meeting, San Francisco, USA.

Ludowicy, P., Arnaez-Telleria, J., Gurunandan, K., Czernochowski, D., Lachmann, T., & Paz-Alonso, P.M. (2019). Neural modulation of the Testing Effect via test-potentiated encoding with feedback. Poster presentation at Organization for Human Brain Mapping (OHBM) 2019 Meeting, Rome, Italy.

Ibarbia, M., & Paz-Alonso, P.M. (2019). Magnocellular and parvocellular contributions to reading. Poster presentation at Cognitive Neuroscience Society (CNS) 2019 Annual Meeting, San Francisco, USA.

Ibarbia, M., & Paz-Alonso, P.M. (2019). Magnocellular and parvocellular contributions to visual object and word recognition. Poster presentation at Organization for Human Brain Mapping (OHBM) 2019 Meeting, Rome, Italy.

Mancini, S., Paz-Alonso, P., & Carreiras, M. (2019). The cortical representation of left and right branching: evidence from Spanish and Basque. Oral presentation at Brain, Language & Learning Conference, Siena, Italy.

Paz-Alonso, P.M. (2019). Converging evidence underlying the role of the thalamus in typical and atypical reading. Invited talk at the CIMCYC External Speakers series, University of Granada, Granada, Spain.

Paz-Alonso, P.M. (2019). Reading within and beyond the classical reading network: Contributions of the ventral occipitotemporal cortex and thalamic nuclei to reading processes. Invited talk at the Achucarro Basque Center for Neuroscience External Speakers series. Leioa, Spain.

2018

Abrahamse, E.L., Merhej, D., & Paz-Alonso, P.M. (2018). Hippocampus: reading beyond the reading network. Poster presentation at the SEPEX-SEPNECA conference, Madrid, Spain.

Arnaez-Telleria, J., Carreiras, M., & Paz-Alonso, P.M. (2018). Consolidated-like memories through testing. Poster presentation at the Cognitive Neuroscience Society (CNS 2018) annual meeting, Boston, USA.

Iglesias, J.E., Insausti, R., Lerma-Usabiaga, G., Artacho-Figueroa, G., Van Leemput, K., Ourselin, S., Fischl, B., Caballero-Gaudes, C., & Paz-Alonso, P.M. (2018). A probabilistic atlas of the thalamic nuclei combining ex vivo MRI and histology. Poster presentation at the Thalamocortical Interactions Gordon Research Conference, Lucca, Italy.

Lerma-Usabiaga, G., Carreiras, M., & Paz-Alonso, P.M. (2018). Multimodal characterization of ventro-occipito-temporal reading regions. Poster presentation at the SEPEX-SEPNECA conference, Madrid, Spain.

Marin-Garcia, E., & Paz-Alonso, P.M. (2018). Neural interactions between memory and language: The role of language profile on semantic processing leading to true and false memories. Poster presentation at the Cognitive Neuroscience Society (CNS 2018) annual meeting. Boston, USA.

Gurunandan, K., Carreiras, M., & Paz-Alonso, P.M. (2018). Neural plasticity of speech and reading networks associated with language learning. Poster presentation at Society for Neurobiology of Language Annual Meeting, Québec, Canada (Poster Slam)

Gurunandan, K., Carreiras, M., & Paz-Alonso, P.M. (2018). Neural plasticity of language production networks associated with language learning. Poster presentation at Society for Neurobiology of Language Annual Meeting, Québec, Canada.

Gurunandan, K., Rueda, R., Guerra, S., Carreiras, M., & Paz-Alonso, P.M. (2018). Metacognitive training induces neurodevelopmental changes in prefrontal regions. Poster presentation at Cognitive Neuroscience Society Annual Meeting, Boston, USA. (Graduate Student Award)

Gurunandan, K., Carreiras, M., & Paz-Alonso, P.M. (2018). Convergence of speech and print networks as a marker of language learning. Poster presentation at Cognitive Neuroscience Society Annual Meeting, Boston, U.S.A.

Perez-Serrano, C., Arnaez-Telleria, J., & Paz-Alonso, P.M. (2018). Ventral and dorsal white matter pathways contributions to the testing effect. Poster presentation at SEPEX-SEPNECA-AIP conference, Madrid, Spain.

Arnaez-Telleria, J., Carreiras, M., & Paz-Alonso, P.M. (2018). Neurodevelopmental correlates of the testing effect. Oral Presentation at the 2018 annual meeting of the Society for Neuroscience (SfN 2018), San Diego, USA.

Paz-Alonso, P.M. (2018). Visual imagery strengths mnemonic control. Oral Presentation at the SEPEX-SEPNECA conference, Madrid, Spain.

Paz-Alonso, P.M. (2018). Converging evidence for a functional and structural segregation within the left ventral occipitotemporal cortex in reading. Invited talk at the International Forum of Brain and Language, Huaqiao University, Quanzhou, China.

Paz-Alonso, P.M. (2018). Converging evidence for a functional and structural segregation within the left vOTC in reading. Invited talk at the V Encuentro Vasco-Chileno en Investigación Biomédica, Santiago, Chile.

Paz-Alonso, P.M. (2018). Developmental trajectories of human thalamic nuclei and its relation to cognitive development. Invited talk at Talleres de Trabajo con Estudiantes de Doctorado y Pregrado, Facultad de Medicina, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, Santiago, Chile.

Paz-Alonso, P.M. (2018). Differential reading and speech functional dynamics for highly contrasting languages. Invited talk at the National Taiwan Normal University, Taipei, Taiwan.

2017

Soto, D., Theodoraki, M., & Paz-Alonso, P.M. (2017). How the human brain introspects about one’s own cognition and behavior. Poster presentation at the Conference on Cognitive Computational Neuroscience (CCN), Columbia University in New York, USA.

Arnaez-Telleria, J., Carreiras, M., & Paz-Alonso, P.M. (2017). Testing leads to consolidated-like memories. Poster presentation at Society for Neuroscience (SfN) 2017 Annual Meeting, Washington DC, USA.

Costello, B., Paz-Alonso, P.M., & Carreiras, M. (2017). The neural basis of sign language processing: Evidence from hearing bimodal bilinguals. Poster presentation at Society for Neuroscience (SfN) 2017 Annual Meeting, Washington DC, USA.

Iglesias, J.E., Insausti, R., Lerma-Usabiaga, G., Van Leemput, K., Ourselin, S., Fischl, B., Caballero-Gaudes, C., & Paz-Alonso. P.M. (2017). A probabilistic atlas of the thalamic nuclei combining ex vivo MRI and histology. Poster presentation at Society for Neuroscience (SfN) 2017 Annual Meeting, Washington DC, USA.

Arnaez-Telleria, J., Oliver, M., Carreiras, M., & Paz-Alonso, P.M. (2017). Spontaneous fluctuations of dorsal and ventral reading networks in bilinguals. Poster presentation at Society for the Neurobiology of Language (SNL) 2017, Baltimore, MD, USA.

Costello, B., Paz-Alonso, P.M., & Carreiras, M. (2017). Neural signatures of sign language processing in bimodal bilinguals. Poster presentation at Society for the Neurobiology of Language (SNL) 2017, Baltimore, MD, USA.

Lerma-Usabiaga, G., Carreiras, M., & Paz-Alonso, P.M. (2017). Multimodal MRI converging evidence on the role of ventro-occipito-temporal cortex in reading: Integrating opposing views. Poster presentation at Society for the Neurobiology of Language (SNL) 2017, Baltimore, MD, USA.

Costello, B., Paz-Alonso, P.M., & Carreiras, M. (2017). Neural correlates underlying sign language processing in hearing bilinguals. Poster presentation at the ESCoP conference, Potsdam, Germany.

Marín-García, E., & Paz-Alonso, P.M. (2017). Language use in true and false DRM memories: An fMRI study comparing monolinguals and bilinguals. Poster presentation at ICON 2017, Amsterdam, Netherlands.

Lerma-Usabiaga, G., Carreiras, M., & Paz-Alonso, P.M. (2017). Functional characterization of ventro-occipito-temporal reading regions. Poster presentation at Organization for Human Brain Mapping (OHBM) 2017 Meeting, Vancouver, Canada.

Paz-Alonso, P.M., & Arnaez-Telleria, J. (2017). Neurodevelopmental correlates of the retrieval-practice effect. Poster presentation at Organization for Human Brain Mapping (OHBM) 2017 Meeting, Vancouver, Canada.

Lerma-Usabiaga, G., Carreiras, M. & Paz-Alonso, P.M. (2017). Multimodal characterization of ventro-occipito-temporal reading regions. Poster presentation at Cognitive Neuroscience Society (CNS) 2017 Annual Meeting, San Francisco, California, USA.

Oliver, M., Carreiras, M., & Paz-Alonso, P.M. (2017). Neural correlates of word frequency effects in bilinguals. Poster presentation at Cognitive Neuroscience Society (CNS) 2017 Annual Meeting, San Francisco, California, USA.

Lerma-Usabiaga, G., Carreiras, M., & Paz-Alonso, P.M. (2017). Anterior-posterior gradient within ventro-occipito-temporal reading regions: functional and structural MRI converging evidence. Oral presentation at Society for Neuroscience (SfN) 2017 Annual Meeting, Washington DC, USA.

Paz-Alonso, P.M. (2017). Neurodevelopmental basis of higher cognitive functions. Biological basis of Bases neurobiológicas del desarrollo de funciones cerebrales superiores Invited talk at the XXXV meeting of the Society of Psychiatry and Neurology of Childhood and Adolescence, Pucón, Chile.

Paz-Alonso, P.M. (2017). Converging evidence underlying the role of thalamus in dyslexia; Development of a probabilistic atlas of the human thalamus. Invited talk at Escuela de Medicina, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, Santiago, Chile.

2016

Marin-Garcia, E., Paz-Alonso, P.M. (2016). Semantic processing in bilinguals: The role of implicit and explicit manipulations on false memories. Poster presentation at Psychonomic Society (PS 2016), Boston, USA.

Branzi, F.M., Martin, C.D., Carreiras, M., & Paz-Alonso, P.M. (2016). Proactive and reactive control during bilingual lexical access is driven by different portions within the prefrontal cortex. Poster presentation at Architectures and Mechanisms for Language Processing conference (AMLaP 2016), Bilbao, Spain.

Branzi, F.M., Martin, C.D., Carreiras, M., & Paz-Alonso, P.M. (2016). Proactive and reactive control during bilingual lexical access is driven by different portions within the prefrontal cortex. Poster presentation at Society for the Neurobiology of Language (SNL) 2016, New York, USA.

Arnaez-Telleria, J., Lerma-Usabiaga, G., Carreiras, M., & Paz-Alonso, P.M. (2016). Functional and structural evidence of hippocampal involvement on the Testing effect. Poster presentation at International Conference on Memory (ICOM6), Budapest, Hungary.

Marin-Garcia, E., & Paz-Alonso, P.M. (2016). Language use modulates relational semantic processing. Poster presentation at International Conference on Memory (ICOM6), Budapest, Hungary.

Arnaez-Telleria, J., Oliver, M., Carreiras, M., & Paz-Alonso, P.M. (2016). Age-of-acquisition of the L2 alters bilinguals’ reading networks connectivity at rest. Poster presentation at Organization for Human Brain Mapping (OHBM) 2016 Meeting, Geneve, Switzerland.

Oliver, M., Carreiras, M., & Paz-Alonso, P.M. (2016). Age-of-acquisition induces structural and functional changes in bilinguals. Poster presentation at Organization for Human Brain Mapping (OHBM) 2016 Meeting, Geneve, Switzerland.

Lerma-Usabiaga, G., Iglesias, J.E., Insausti, R., Greve, D., & Paz-Alonso. P.M. (2016). Automated segmentation of the human hippocampus longitudinal axis. Poster presentation at Organization for Human Brain Mapping (OHBM) 2016 Meeting, Geneve, Switzerland.

Arnaez-Telleria, J., Lerma-Usabiaga, G., Carreiras, M, & Paz-Alonso, P.M. (2016). Functional and structural correlates of the testing effect. Poster presentation at Cognitive Neuroscience Society (CNS) 2016 Annual Meeting, New York, USA.

Branzi, F.M., Paz-Alonso, P.M., Martin, C.D., & Carreiras, M. (2016). Proactive and reactive control during bilingual lexical access is driven by different portions within the prefrontal cortex. Poster presentation at Cognitive Neuroscience Society (CNS) 2016 Annual Meeting, New York, USA.

Lerma-Usabiaga, G., Carreiras, M, & Paz-Alonso, P.M. (2016). Maturational differences in thalamic structural asymmetry in control and dyslexic readers. Poster presentation at Cognitive Neuroscience Society (CNS) 2016 Annual Meeting, New York, USA.

Marin-Garcia, E., & Paz-Alonso, P.M. (2016). When language meets memory: Language use modulates relational semantic processing in bilinguals. Poster presentation at Cognitive Neuroscience Society (CNS) 2016 Annual Meeting, New York, USA.

Oliver, M., Carreiras, M., Iturria-Medina, Y., & Paz-Alonso, P.M. (2016). Structural and functional dynamics of bilingual reading as a function of the age-of-acquisition. Poster presentation at Cognitive Neuroscience Society (CNS) 2016 Annual Meeting, New York, USA.

Oliver, M., Carreiras, M., Iturria-Medina, Y., & Paz-Alonso, P.M. (2016). Age of acquisition of the second language modulates structural and functional dynamics of bilingual reading. Poster presentation at Conference on Educational Neuroscience, Abu Dhabi, UAE.

Oliver, M., Carreiras, M., & Paz-Alonso, P.M. (2016). Age of acquisition of the second language modulates structural and functional dynamics of bilingual reading. Oral presentation at the VIIIth International Conference of Language Acquisition, Palma de Mallorca, Spain.

Arnaez-Telleria, J., Lerma-Usabiaga,G., Carreiras, M., & Paz-Alonso, P.M. (2016). Functional and structural evidence of hippocampal involvement on the Testing effect. Oral presentation at International Conference on Memory (ICOM6), Budapest, Hungary.

Lerma-Usabiaga, G., Iglesias, J.E., Insausti, R., Greve, D., & Paz-Alonso. P.M. (2016). Automated segmentation of the human hippocampus along its longitudinal axis. Oral presentation at International Conference on Memory (ICOM6), Budapest, Hungary.

Paz-Alonso, P.M., Arnaez-Telleria, J., Lerma-Usabiaga, G., & Carreiras, M. (2016). Neurodevelopmental correlates of the testing effect. Oral presentation at International Conference on Memory (ICOM6), Budapest, Hungary.

Shing, Y.L., Brod, G., Meyer, A-K., Paz-Alonso, P.M., & Fandakova, Y. (2016). Neural mechanisms of episodic memory development: Effects of school entry. Oral presentation at International Conference on Memory (ICOM6), Budapest, Hungary.

Oliver, M., Paz-Alonso, P.M., Lerma-Usabiaga, G., Caballero-Gaudes, C., Quiñones, I., Suarez-Coalla, M.P., Duñabeitia, J.A., Cuetos, F., & Carreiras, M. (2016). Functional dynamics of orthographic consistency in dyslexic and control readers. Oral presentation at International Workshop on Reading and Developmental Dyslexia (IWORDD) 2016, Bilbao, Spain.

Iglesias, J.E., Paz-Alonso, P.M., Lerma-Usabiaga, G., Insausti, R., Miller, K., & Caballero-Gaudes, C. (2016). Simultaneous Bayesian correction of slab boundary artifacts and bias field for high resolution ex vivo MRI. Oral presentation at International Symposium on Biomedical Imaging (ISBI) 2016, Prague, Czech Republic.

Paz-Alonso, P.M., & Carreiras, M. (2016). Neural dynamics of print and speech in four contrasting languages. Oral presentation at Literacy Dialog NBRC International Meeting, Manesar, India.

Paz-Alonso, P.M. (2016). Multimodal MRI converging evidence underlying the role of thalamus in developmental dyslexia. Invited talk at Department of Anatomy & Graduate Program in Neuroscience. Facultad de Medicina, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Madrid, Spain.

Paz-Alonso, P.M. (2016). Functional and structural correlates of atypical reading. Invited talk at Center for Cognitive Sciences, University of Kaiserslautern, Kaiserslautern, Germany.

2015

Oliver, M., Carreiras, M. & Paz-Alonso, P.M. (2015). The influence of age of acquisition in bilingual reading. Poster presentation at Society for Neuroscience (SfN) 2015 Annual Meeting. Chicago, USA.

Lerma-Usabiaga, G., Carreiras, M., Paz-Alonso, P.M. (2015). Neurodevelopmental trajectories of thalamic volume in control and dyslexic readers. Poster presentation at Society for the Neurobiology of Language (SNL) 2015. Chicago, USA.

Oliver, M., Carreiras, M. & Paz-Alonso, P.M. (2015). Age of acquisition of the second language modulates structural and functional dynamics in bilingual reading. Poster presentation at Society for the Neurobiology of Language (SNL) 2015. Chicago, USA.

Lerma-Usabiaga, G., Iglesias, J.E. & Paz-Alonso, P.M. (2015). PCA-based automatic segmentation of hippocampal longitudinal axis. Poster presentation at Cognitive Neuroscience Society (CNS) 2015 Annual Meeting. San Francisco, CA, USA.

Oliver, M., Paz-Alonso, P.M., Quiñones, I., Caballero, C., Suarez-Coalla, M.P., Duñabeitia, J.A., Cuetos, F. & Carreiras, M. (2015). Neural correlates of orthographic consistency in readers with and without dyslexia. Poster presentation at Cognitive Neuroscience Society (CNS) 2015 Annual Meeting. San Francisco, CA, USA.

Paz-Alonso, P.M. & Carreiras, M. (2015). Neural dynamics underlying retrieval-practice effects. Poster presentation at Cognitive Neuroscience Society (CNS) 2015 Annual Meeting. San Francisco, CA, USA.

Lerma-Usabiaga, G., Iglesias, J.E. & Paz-Alonso. P.M. (2015). Hippocampal longitudinal axis segmentation: PCA-based automated segmentation tool. Oral presentation at Society for Neuroscience (SfN) 2015 Annual Meeting. Chicago, USA.

Oliver M., Carreiras M. & Paz-Alonso, P.M. (2015). Functional dynamics of the bilingual brain. Oral presentation at the XII International Symposium of Psycholinguistics, Valencia, Spain.

Paz-Alonso, P.M., Lerma-Usabiaga, G., Oliver, M., Quiñones, I., Caballero-Gaudes, C. & Carreiras, M. (2015). Thalamic-cortical connections in dyslexia. Oral presentation at Workshop on Reading in different Orthographies. BCBL, Donostia, Spain.

Oliver, M., Carreiras, M., & Paz-Alonso, P.M. (2015). Neural modulation of the left VOT in bilingual reading. Oral presentation at Psychology and Brain: Section for Biological Psychology and Neuropsychology of German Society of Psychology Annual Meeting. Frankurt, Germany.

Paz-Alonso, P.M., Guerra, S., Carreiras, M., & Rueda, M.R. (2015). Functional connectivity changes over middle childhood induced by training higher cognitive functions. Oral presentation at International Conference in Psychological Science (ICPS). Amsterdam, Netherlands.

Lerma-Usabiaga, G., Iglesias, J.E., & Paz-Alonso, P.M. (2015). Hippocampal longitudinal axis segmentation: PCA-based automated segmentation tool. Invited talk at Stanford University Psychology Department, Stanford, CA, USA.

2014

Oliver, M., Carreiras, M. & Paz-Alonso, P.M. (2014). Ventral and dorsal reading networks are modulated by task demands and language orthography: Regional and functional connectivity evidence. Poster presentation at Society for the Neurobiology of Language (SNL) 2014. Amsterdam, Netherlands.

Lizarazu, M., Lallier, M., Bourguignon, M., Paz-Alonso, P.M., Lerma-Usabiaga, G., Carreiras, M., & Molinaro, N. (2014). Evidence for age-related effects in auditory entrainment in dyslexia: an MEG study. Poster presentation at the 19th International Conference on Biomagnetism (BIOMAG 2014). Halifax, Canada.

Lerma-Usabiaga, G, Iglesias, J.E., Carreiras, M., Paz-Alonso, P.M. (2014). Optimization of the hippocampal segmentation along its longitudinal axis. Poster presentation at Neurogune 2014 meeting. Donostia, Spain

Lerma-Usabiaga, G., García-Penton, L., Bunge, S., Carreiras, M. & Paz-Alonso, P.M. (2014). Functional and structural changes associated with nmemonic control. Poster presentation Organization for Human Brain Mapping (OHBM) 2014 Meeting. Hamburg, Germany.

Oliver, M., Carreiras, M. & Paz-Alonso, P.M. (2014). Task and language orthography modulation of the ventral and dorsal reading networks. Poster presentation at Organization for Human Brain Mapping (OHBM) 2014 Meeting. Hamburg, Germany.

Paz-Alonso, P.M., Frost, S.J., Oliver, M., Molfese, P.J., Bick, A., Wen-Jui, K., Wu, D.H., Tzeng, O., Pugh, K.R., Rueckl, J., Frost, R., & Carreiras, M. (2014). Network dynamics of reading and speech systems across languages. Poster presentation at Cognitive Neuroscience Society (CNS) 2014 Annual Meeting. Boston, US.

Rueckl, J., Frost, S.J., Molfese, P.J., Paz-Alonso, P.M., Wen-Jui, K., Bick, A., Mencl, E., Wu, D.H., Tzeng, O., Frost, R., Carreiras, M., & Pugh, K.R. (2014). How properties of the writing system determine the convergence of the speech and reading systems in the brain. Poster presentation at Cognitive Neuroscience Society (CNS) 2014 Annual Meeting. Boston, US.

Paz-Alonso, P.M. (2014). Functional and structural evidence underlying the role of thalamus in dyslexia. Oral presentation at Annual conference on the Biological Foundations of Languages. Hong Kong, Hong Kong.

Paz-Alonso, P.M. & Carreiras, M. (2014). Neural dynamics underlying the retrieval practice effect. Oral presentation at SEPEX - SEPNECA Congress. Murcia, Spain.

Iglesias, J.E., Van Leemput, K., Augustinack, J., Fischl, B., Lerma-Usabiaga, G., Paz-Alonso P.M. & Carreiras, M. (2014). Segmenting substructures from in vivo brain MRI using priors derived from autopsy brain samples. Oral presentation at Neurogune 2014 meeting. Donostia, Spain.

Paz-Alonso, P.M. (2014). Neurodevelopmental changes in network dynamics underlying encoding and retrieval of true and false memories. Oral presentation at 2nd Conference of the European Society for Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience (ESCAN). Dortmund, Germany.

Paz-Alonso, P.M., & Carreiras, M. (2014). Network dynamics of reading and speech systems across languages. Oral presentation at First and Second Language Literacy Conference: New Directions in Cross-Language Research. New Haven, CT, US.

Paz-Alonso, P.M., Lerma-Usabiaga, G., & Carreiras, M. (2014). Neural correlates of verse improvisation. Oral presentation at First and Second Language Literacy Conference: New Directions in Cross-Language Research. New Haven, CT, US.

Paz-Alonso, P.M. (2014). Neural dynamics underlying reading and speech systems as a function of language orthography. Oral presentation at Symposium on L1 reading across different languages and L2 literacy acquisition. Taipei, Taiwán.

2013

Frost, S., Molfese, P., Paz-Alonso, P.M., Bick, A., Wen-Jui, K., Pugh, Ken., Rueckl, J. (2013). Properties of the writing system determine the overlap of the speech and reading systems in the brain. Poster presentation at Psychonomics Society (PS 2013), Toronto, Canada.

Lerma-Usabiaga, G., García-Penton, L. Carreiras, M., & Paz-Alonso, P.M. (2013). Hippocampal structural differences associated with mnemonic control across different methodologies. Poster presentation at Society for Neuroscience (SfN) 2013 Annual Meeting, San Diego, USA.

Oliver, M., Carreiras, M., & Paz-Alonso, P.M. (2013). Sensitivity of the visual word form are to reading demands. Poster presentation at Society for Neuroscience (SfN) 2013 Annual Meeting, San Diego, USA.

Lerma-Usabiaga, G., Paz-Alonso, P.M., Quiñones, I., Caballero, C., Oliver, M., Suarez-Coalla, M. P., Cuetos, F., Duñabeitia J. A., & Carreiras, M. (2013). Structural and functional correlates of the left thalamus in dyslexia. Poster presentation at Society for the Neurobiology of Language (SNL) 2013, San Diego, USA.

Oliver, M., Carreiras, M., & Paz-Alonso, P.M. (2013). Language orthography and task demands modulate the engagement of regions within the reading networks. Poster presentation at Society for the Neurobiology of Language (SNL) 2013, San Diego, USA.

Molinaro, N., Paz-Alonso, P.M., Duñabeitia, J.A., & Carreiras, M. (2013). Semantic combinatorial processing of low-typical aexpressions. Poster presentation at the XVIIIth ESCoP conference, Budapest, Hungary.

Paz-Alonso, P.M., Quiñones, I., Caballero, C., Oliver, M., Suarez-Coalla, M.P., Cuetos, F., Duñabeitia, J.A., & Carreiras, M. (2013). Neural correlates of the ran in typical and atypical developing readers. Poster presentation at the International Workshop on Reading and Developmental Dyslexia (IWORDD) 2013, Donostia, Spain.

Rueda, M.R., Paz-Alonso, P.M., Guerra, S., Oliver, M., & Carreiras, M. (2013). Functional changes in frontal regions induced by training executive functions in middle childhood. Poster presentation at Society for Research in Child Development (SRCD) 2013 Biennial Meeting, Seattle, WA, USA.

Paz-Alonso, P.M., Rueda, M.R., Guerra, S., Oliver, M., & Carreiras, M. (2013). Training executive functions induced neural changes in reading. Poster presentation at Cognitive Neuroscience Society (CNS) 2013 Annual Meeting, San Francisco, USA.

Paz-Alonso, P.M., Quiñones, I., Caballero, C., Oliver, M., Suárez-Coalla, M.P., Cuetos, F., Duñabeitia, J.A., & Carreiras, M. (2013). Neurodevelopmental correlates of the rapid-automatized-naming in typical and atypical developing readers. Poster presentation at the 3rd Oxford-Kobe Symposium on Dyslexia, Oxford, UK.

Paz-Alonso, P.M. (2013). Developmental changes in control processes over memory retrieval: Behavioral and neuroimaging evidence. Oral presentation at Society for Research in Child Development (SRCD) 2013 Biennial Meeting, Seattle, WA, USA.

Paz-Alonso, P.M. (2013). Neurocognitive processes supporting semantic encoding underlie developmental differences in true and false memories. Oral presentation at Society for Research in Child Development (SRCD) 2013 Biennial Meeting, Seattle, WA, USA.

Rueda, M.R., Pozuelos, J.P., Combita, L.M., Abundis, A., & Paz-Alonso, P.M. (2013). Progress on training children's executive attention: Understanding individual differences and building bridges to education. Oral presentation at Society for Research in Child Development (SRCD) 2013 Biennial Meeting, Seattle, WA, USA.

Molinaro, N., Paz-Alonso, P.M., Duñabeitia, J.A. & Carreiras, M. (2013). Beyond word meaning: Combining contrasting concepts relies on the dorsal pathway. Oral presentation at the 11th International Symposium of Psycholinguistics, Tenerife, Spain.

Lerma-Usabiaga, G., & Paz-Alonso, P.M. (2013). Neuroimaging in childhood. Invited talk at the 11ª Jornadas del proyecto INMA, Donostia-San Sebastian, Spain. Centro de Investigación Biomédica en Red (CIBER)

2012

Paz‐Alonso, P.M., Rueda, M.R., Guerra, S., Oliver, M. & Carreiras, M. (2012). Neural changes in reading induced by training executive functions. Poster presentation at Society for the Neurobiology of Language (SNL) 2012, San Sebastián, Spain.

Paz-Alonso, P.M., & Carreiras, M. (2012). Neural changes in cognitive control and in reading induced by training executive functions. Oral presentation at the Second language acquisition: from brain plasticity to cognition. Jerusalem, Israel.

Paz-Alonso, P.M. (2012). Instructor on Methods in Cognitive Neuroscience course focused on MRI entitled “Neuro- and psycho-linguistic protocols for exploring the mental lexicon”. Instructor at the Networds (European Network on Word Structure) Summer School: Interdisciplinary approaches to exploring the mental lexicon. Center for Advanced Academic Studies, Dubrovnik, Croatia.

2011

Combita, L., Abundis, A., Pozuelos, J. P., Paz-Alonso, P.M., & Rueda, M.R. (2011). Interaction of dopamine-related genes and environment on preschoolers' executive function. Poster presentation 15th European Conference on Developmental Psychology (ECDP), Bergen, Norway.

Paz-Alonso, P.M., Combita-Merchan, L., Bunge, S.A. & Rueda, M.R. (2011). Developmental changes in monitoring the temporal context of memories. Poster presentation at the VIII Reunión de la Red Temática de Neurociencia Cognitiva (RNCC), Sevilla, Spain.

Paz-Alonso, P.M., Hembacher, E., Gallego, P., & Ghetti, S. (2011). Neurodevelopmental correlates of encoding processes underlying false-memory formation. Poster presentation at Cognitive Neuroscience Society (CNS) 2011 Annual Meeting, San Francisco, CA, USA.

Rueda, M. R., Pozuelos, J. P., Paz-Alonso, P.M., Combita-Merchan, L., & Abundis, A. (2011). Metacognitive training and error detection in early childhood. Poster presentation at Cognitive Neuroscience Society (CNS) 2011 Annual Meeting, San Francisco, CA, USA.

Hembacher, E., Paz-Alonso, P.M., Gallego, P., & Ghetti, S. (2011). Encoding the gist: Neurodevelopmental correlates of false memories. Poster presentation at Society for Research in Child Development (SRCD) 2011 Biennial Meeting, Montreal, Canada.

Paz-Alonso, P.M., & Bunge, S. A. (2011). Neurodevelopmental correlates of monitoring the temporal context of memories. Oral presentation at the 11th International Conference on Cognitive Neuroscience (ICON XI), Mallorca, Spain.

Paz-Alonso, P.M. (2011). Neurodevelopmental changes in control over memory retrieval. Oral presentation at International Conference on Memory (ICOM5), York, UK.

Paz-Alonso, P.M., Perez, A., & Carreiras, M. (2011). Neural development of mnemonic control networks. Oral presentation at ReteCog 2011: The Architectures of Mind Meeting, Madrid, Spain.

Bederian-Gardner, D., Paz-Alonso, P.M., Hembacher, E., & Goodman, G.S. (2011). Developmental differences in emotional true and false memories: The role of gist and monitoring processes influence them. Oral presentation at Society for Research in Child Development (SRCD) 2011 Biennial Meeting, Montreal, Canada.

Paz-Alonso, P.M., Cómbita-Merchán, L., Bunge, S. A., & Rueda, M.R. (2011). Developmental changes in monitoring the temporal context of memories. Oral presentation at Society for Research in Child Development (SRCD) 2011 Biennial Meeting, Montreal, Canada.

Paz-Alonso, P.M. (2011). Neurodevelopmental correlates of episodic memory. Instructor at the Summer Course “Childhood brain development and genetics”. International University of Andalucia (UNIA).