Sonia Arenillas Alcón
Investigador pre-doc
Research group
The researcher Sonia Arenillas-Alcón graduated in Psychology in 2016 from the University of Seville, and later obtained the Master's Degree in Neuropsychology from the University of Salamanca in 2017.
Between 2017 and 2018 she worked as a research technician at the Laboratory of Animal Behavior and Neuroscience (LAB & N) of the University of Seville, and currently works as a specialized technician for the University of Barcelona (Brainlab) and the Institut de Recerca Sant Joan de Déu, where through the electroencephalogram (EEG) record, she studies the cerebral mechanisms responsible for auditory perception and speech processing in newborns.
Last Publications
- Balen SA, de Souza Evangelista CK, Ribas-Prats T, Santos AB, Arenillas-Alcón S and Escera C Frequency-Following Response in Infants With Congenital Syphilis. Journal of speech, language, and hearing research : JSLHR . : 1-13.
- Jacxsens L, Gorina N, Mondéjar-Segovia A, Arenillas-Alcón S, Biot L, Cardon E, Van Rompaey V, De Hertogh W, Lammers MJW and Escera C Toward the Optimal Stimulus to Elicit the Frequency-Following Response. Ear and Hearing . : .
- Mondéjar-Segovia A, Gorina N, Arenillas-Alcón S, Koravand A, Costa-Faidella J, Ribas-Prats T, Gómez-Roig MD and Escera C Neural encoding of speech-in-noise in neonates: A frequency-following response study JOURNAL OF THE ACOUSTICAL SOCIETY OF AMERICA . 158(3): 2577-2589.
News
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Benefits of listening to music during pregnancy on baby's brain capacity for language sound encoding
The study, led by Dr. Carles Escera · Institut de Recerca Sant Joan de Déu, shows that when pregnant women sing to their baby or listen to music with speakers every day during gestation, babies are born with a better ability for neuronal encoding of language sounds.
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Can a newborn’s brain discriminate speech sounds?
A study by the Institut de Recerca Sant Joan de Déu shows newborns do not fully distinguish different vocal sounds. Researchers created a new methodology to record the neural encoding for these sounds, published in the Nature's open-access journal Scientific Reports.
More activities
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Defensa tesi doctoral: Sonia Arenillas-Alcón
Sala Miquel Siguan de la Facultat de Psicologia de la Universitat de Barcelona (Campus Mundet)
