Cheers and congratulations

 A group of academics and researchers acknowledge the work of audiologists and speech-language pathologists.

New award

 
Best Scientific Poster Award of ENFONO granted to  graduate students from Universidad San Sebastián

Newspaper article

 
Pavel Prado talks about brain clocks in aging and neurodegeneration, in La Tercera

Conference presentation

 Pavel Prado gave the talk Brain clocks in aging and neurodegeneration, during the festivities for the Day of the Audiology and Speech Pathology

Research grant

 
Collective mind: from computational modeling to computational sociology. Unveiling the role of self and situational awareness in agent-based systems, by Tomás Perez-Acle and Mónica Otero, was awarded by ANID Exploración 2024

Conference presentation

Neurophysiological Mechanisms of Vocal Production in Noisy Environments , by Chistian Castro et al., is presented at the  2nd Congress of the Chilean Society of Audiology and Speech-Language Pathology 

Conference presentation

LEXIMETRIX: A Tool for Quantitative Text Analysis, by Mónica Otero et al., is presented at  the 2nd Congress of the Chilean Society of Audiology and Speech-Language Pathology 

 Science Day Celebration

 Mónica Otero participated in a panel of experts to discuss and share their research experiences.

Scientific publication

Modeling voice production and self-perception in noise: Understanding the Lombard Effect in Non-Phonotraumatic Vocal Hyperfunction has been accepted for publication in  JASA: The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Voice Research Symposium 

Pavel Prado presented the talk 

 DIVA_EEG: An EEG-Driven Neurocomputational  Framework to Voice Production

Scientific publication 

Structural inequality and temporal brain dynamics across diverse samples is published in Clinical and Translational Medicine

Scientific publication 

The cognitive triad network - oscillation - behaviour links individual differences in EEG theta frequency with task performance and effective connectivity has been published in Scientif Report

Electronic  Engineering program 

Felipe Carriel successfully defended the dissertations "Brain Age Estimation from Electroencephalography (EEG) Data Using Machine Learning Methods" as part of the Electronic Engineering program at UTFSM. 

Electronic  Engineering program 

Mirella Vera successfully defended the dissertation "Analysis of Cortical Responses via Electroencephalography for the Validation of a Computational Model" as part of the Electronic Engineering program at UTFSM. 

 Ph.D. in Linguistics

Juan Satt successfully defended the dissertation "The Role of Knowledge Type and Disciplinary Integration in the Semantic Processing of Concrete and Abstract Concepts in Biology Students," as part of the Ph.D. in Linguistics program at PUCV. 

Scientific publication

High-order brain interactions in ketamine during rest and task: A double-blinded cross-over design using portable EEG on male participants has been published in Translational Psychiatry  

International Symposium

Pavel Prado will give the talk  Brain Oscillations in Age-Related Neurodegenerative Diseases: The Relevance of Multicenter Studies, at the ViBrain symposium celebrating the 100th anniversary of the EEG   

Conference organization

Mónica Otero and Pavel Prado chair the  Bioengineering  session at the  2024 IEEE International Conference on Automation/XXVI Congress of the Chilean Association of Automatic Control

Radio interview

Pavel Prado talk with  Gabriel León about science in Rockstars, an interview program at  TXS Plus 

Newspaper article

International Women in Engineering Day: Dr. Mónica Otero and Computational Neuroscience, an interview with Mónica Otero

Scientific publication

Brain clocks capture diversity and disparity in aging and dementia has been published in Nature Medicine

Scientific publication

Aberrant brain language network in schizophrenia spectrum disorder: A Systematic Review of its relation to language signs beyond symptoms, by Monica Otero, has been published in Frontiers in Psychiatry 

Conference presentation

 Pavel Prado will give the talk Multicenter EEG Studies for Characterizing Neurodegenerative Diseases in Older Adults,  at the National Congress of the Faculty of Rehabilitation Sciences, Universidad San Sebastián

New award

Pavel Prado received the award "Publication of the year of the Electrophysiology Professional Intererest Area  of the Alzheimer´s Association" by the article Harmonized multi-metric and multicentric assessment of EEG source space connectivity for dementia characterization

Scientific publication

 Brain health in diverse settings: How age, demographics and cognition shape brain function has been published in Neuroimage

Scientific seminar

Pavel Prado gave the talk  Horizons in Research: Multicenter EEG Studies for the Identification of Biomarkers in Neurodegenerative Diseases,  at Universidad San Sebastián, Santiago de Chile

Scientific seminar

Mónica Otero gave the talk  Brain Oscillations: Bridging Electroencephalography Recordings and Computational Models,  at Universidad San Sebastián, Santiago de Chile

Scientific publication

Viscous dynamics associated with hypoexcitation and structural disintegration in neurodegeneration via generative whole-brain modeling has been accepted for publication in  Alzheimer's and Dementia

Scientific publication

Elevating Understanding: Linking High-Altitude Hypoxia to Brain Aging Through EEG Functional Connectivity and Spectral Analyses has been published in Network Neuroscience

Newspaper article

Mental Health News Daily, from NewsRX, covers research conducted by Pavel Prado on EEG biomarkers for dementia (Novel advances in the characterization of dementia subtypes: from multi-feature classification to whole brain computational models)

Newspaper article

Mental Health News Daily, from NewsRX, covers research conducted by Pavel Prado on EEG biomarkers for dementia (Elevating Understanding: Linking High-Altitude Hypoxia to Brain Aging

Through EEG Functional Connectivity and Spectral Analyses)

Newspaper article

Mental Health News Daily, from NewsRX, covers research conducted by Pavel Prado on EEG biomarkers for dementia (The BrainLat project, a multimodal neuroimaging dataset of neurodegeneration from underrepresented backgrounds)

Newspaper article

Mónica Otero's research was highlighted in an article published in La Tercera, which noted that USS is one of the universities with the highest number of projects awarded in the Fondecyt Initiation 2024. 

Special seminar

Pavel Prado gave the talk  New Horizons in Research: Multicenter EEG Studies for the Identification of Biomarkers in Neurodegenerative Diseases,  at ISS Biobizkaia, Bilbao

Scientific publication

A High-Resolution LED Display for Steady State Visual Stimulation:
Customized, Affordable, and Open Source, by Monica Otero et al., has been accepted for publication in Sensors

Special seminar

Monica Otero gave the talk Brain oscillations: from EEG recordings to computational modeling, at ISS Biobizkaia, Bilbao, and Universidad de Valencia, Valencia

Research visit

Monica Otero and Pavel Prado visited the  Computational Neuroimaging Lab, at BioBizkaia Health Research Institute, Hospital Universitario Cruces, Bilbao, to conduct research on brain ageing.

MSc program on Audiology and Balance

Pavel Prado is a faculty member at the MSc program on Audiology and Balance, Audiology and Speech Pathology School, Universidad San Sebastian

Cheers and congratulations

A group of academics and researchers acknowledge the work of audiologists and speech-language pathologists.

Interview of Pavel Prado in Rockstars, from TXS plus

Pavel Prado talk with  Gabriel León about science in Rockstars, an interview program at  TXS Plus

Interview of Monica Otero in Cience for the future, from TXS plus

Mónica Otero talks about the use of computational modelling to uncode brain function  

A method for tracking the time evolution of steady-state evoked potentials 

This video is part of the paper A method for tracking the time evolution of steady-state responses, authored by Prado-Gutierrez et al., and published in Journal of Visualized Experiments (2019)

Annual Technical Meeting of the Advanced Center for Electrical and Electronic Engineering (AC3E) 2018

Monica Otero won third prize in the competition for the Best Research Project

Annual Technical Meeting of the Advanced Center for Electrical and Electronic Engineering (AC3E) 2017

Pavel Prado won first prize in the competition for the Best Research Project