Ane Gurtubay-Antolin

Research

Staff Scientist - Ikerbasque Research Fellow 2025-2029 - Marie Skłodowska-Curie Fellow 2024-2026.

Keywords: Cognitive neuroscience, plasticity, blindness, visual system, tactile system, structural MRI (diffusion MRI, volumetry, quantitative MRI), functional MRI (task-related, resting state).

Ane Gurtubay-Antolin is a Marie Curie fellow. She completed her PhD at the University of Barcelona, where she investigated tactile monitoring mechanisms and in sighted and unsighted individuals (2013-2017). She then joined the Catholic University of Louvain to study crossmodal plasticity mechanisms in visually deprived populations (2018-2022). During her career she has used electroencephalography (EEG) as well as functional and structural MRI techniques.

Research group: Language and Memory Control

a.gurtubay@bcbl.eu

+34 943 309 300 Ext 202

2023

Gurtubay-Antolin, A., Bruña, R., Collignon, O., & Rodríguez-Fornells, A. (2023). Tactile expectancy modulates occipital alpha oscillations in early blindness. NeuroImage, 265. Doi:10.1016/j.neuroimage.2022.119790

2022

Battal, C., Gurtubay-Antolin, A., Rezk, M., Mattioni, S., Bertonati, G., Occelli, V., Bottini, R., Targher, S., Maffei, C., Jovicich, J., & Collignon, O. (2022). Structural and Functional Network-Level Reorganization in the Coding of Auditory Motion Directions and Sound Source Locations in the Absence of Vision. Journal of Neuroscience, 42(23), 4652-4668. Doi:10.1523/JNEUROSCI.1554-21.2022

2021

Gurtubay-Antolin, A., Battal, C., Maffei, C., Rezk, M., Mattioni, S., Jovicich, J., & Collignon, O. (2021). Direct structural connections between auditory and visual motion-selective regions in humans. Journal of Neuroscience, 41(11), 2393-2405. Doi:10.1523/JNEUROSCI.1552-20.2021

2018

Gurtubay-Antolin, A., León-Cabrera, P., & Rodríguez-Fornells, A. (2018). Neural evidence of hierarchical cognitive control during haptic processing: An fMRI study. eNeuro, 5(6). Doi:10.1523/ENEURO.0295-18.2018

Simó, M., Gurtubay-Antolin, A., Vaquero, L., Bruna, J., & Rodríguez-Fornells, A. (2018). Performance monitoring in lung cancer patients pre- and post-chemotherapy using fine-grained electrophysiological measures. NeuroImage: Clinical, 18, 86-96. Doi:10.1016/j.nicl.2017.12.032

2017

Gurtubay-Antolin, A., & Rodríguez-Fornells, A. (2017). Neurophysiological evidence for enhanced tactile acuity in early blindness in some but not all haptic tasks. NeuroImage, 162, 23-31. Doi:10.1016/j.neuroimage.2017.08.054

2016

Simó, M., Vaquero, L., Ripollés, P., Gurtubay-Antolin, A., Jové, J., Navarro, A., Cardenal, F., Bruna, J., & Rodríguez-Fornells, A. (2016). Longitudinal brain changes associated with prophylactic cranial irradiation in lung cancer. Journal of Thoracic Oncology, 11(4), 475-486. Doi:10.1016/j.jtho.2015.12.110

2015

Miró, J., Gurtubay-Antolin, A., Ripollés, P., Sierpowska, J., Juncadella, M., Fuentemilla, L., Sánchez, V., Falip, M., & Rodríguez-Fornells, A. (2015). Interhemispheric microstructural connectivity in bitemporal lobe epilepsy with hippocampal sclerosis. Cortex, 67, 106-121. Doi:10.1016/j.cortex.2015.03.018

Gurtubay-Antolin, A., Rodriguez-Herreros, B., & Rodríguez-Fornells, A. (2015). The speed of object recognition from a haptic glance: Event-related potential evidence. Journal of Neurophysiology, 113(9), 3069-3075. Doi:10.1152/jn.00836.2014

Rodríguez-Herreros, B., Amengual, J.L., Gurtubay-Antolín, A., Richter, L., Jauer, P., Erdmann, C., Schweikard, A., López-Moliner, J., Rodríguez-Fornells, A., & Münte, T.F. (2015). Microstructure of the superior longitudinal fasciculus predicts stimulation-induced interference with on-line motor control. NeuroImage, 120, 254-265. Doi:10.1016/j.neuroimage.2015.06.070

Juan de la Cierva Incoporación (02/2022 - 02/2025), Spanish ministry. BCBL, Donostia-San Sebastian.

FSR Incoming Fellowship (04/2019 - 01/2022), Catholic University of Louvain. Catholic University of Louvain, Brussels.

WBI Excellence grant (02/2018 - 03/2019), Wallonie Bruxelles International. Catholic University of Louvain, Brussels.

2024

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.