BRAMS is pleased to announce that Dr. Manuel S. Malmierca will be visiting the laboratory, from February 9 to February 25, 2017, for a research collaboration with Dr. Isabelle Peretz et Dr. Alexandre Lehmann.
Dr. Dr. Manuel S. Malmierca will be giving a conference on February 9th on “Stimulus-specific adaptation in the subcortical auditory brain”, during which he will present the most recent studies on subcortical and cortical Stimulus-specific adaptation (SSA) and deviance detection.
Manuel S. Malmierca, M.D., Obtained his Ph.D. (1991) from the University of Salamanca in the neuroanatomy while he was at the Anatomical Institute of the University of Oslo (Norway, 1989-1991. From 1991-1994, he trained in neurophysiology as Senior Research Fellow. In 1994, he was awarded a Human Capital and Mobility Fellowship, EU and returned to the University of Salamanca, where he was appointed, first as an Assistant Professor (1996-1999), then as Associate Professor (1999-2016), and finally as full Professor in 2016. Currently, he is also the director of the Institute of Neuroscience of Castilla y León (INCYL) at the University of Salamanca, and he holds a faculty appointment as Adjunct Assistant Professor at the University of Connecticut in the USA.