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UPDATED LIST OF PUBLICATIONS

Fernández-Prieto, I., Spence, C., Pons, F., & Navarra, J. (in press, 2017). Does language influence the vertical representation of auditory pitch and loudness? I-Perception

Caprile, C., Campistol, J., Puigcerver, L., Gutiérrez-Mata, A-P., Alonso-Colmenero, I., Colomé, R., & Navarra, J. (2017). Subtle visuomotor deficits and reduced benefit from practice in early treated phenylketonuria. Journal of Clinical and Experimental Neuropsychology.

Fernández-Prieto, I., Navarra, J. (2017). The higher the pitch the larger its crossmodal influence on visuospatial processing. Psychology of Music.

Deroy, O., Fernández-Prieto, I., Navarra, J., & Spence, C (in press, 2016). Unravelling the paradox of spatial pitch. In: Hubbard, T.L. (ed.). Spatial Biases in Perception and Cognition. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press.

Fernández-Prieto, I., Caprile, C., Tinoco-González, D., Ristol-Orriols, B., López-Sala, A., Póo-Argüelles, P., Pons, F. & Navarra, J. (2016) Pitch perception deficits in nonverbal learning disability. Research in Developmental Disabilities, 59, 378-386.

Navarra, J., Rodríguez-Cuadrado, S. (2016). Aspectos psicológicos de la alimentación. In "Guía para una alimentación infantil sana y saludable". Barcelona: Cuaderno Faros nº 10.

Soto-Faraco, S., Navarra, J., Sinnett, S., Alsius, A., Azañón, E. (2016). Percepción Multisensorial. In: Bajo, M.T., Fuentes, L.J., Lupiáñez, J., Rueda, M.R. (eds.). Mente y cerebro: De la Psicología Experimental a la Neurociencia Cognitiva. Madrid, España: Alianza Editorial.

* Mollica, A., * Navarra, J., Fernández-Prieto, I., Olives, J., Tort, A., Valech, N., Coll-Padrós, N., Molinuevo, J.L., Rami, L. (2015). Subtle visuomotor difficulties in preclinical Alzheimer's disease. Journal of Neuropsychology.

[* The first two authors contributed equally to this study.]

Caprile, C., Cuevas-Esteban, J., Ochoa, S., Usall, J., Navarra J. (2015). Mixing apples with oranges: Deficits at filtering visual information in schizophrenia. Journal of Behavior Therapy and Experimental Psychiatry, 48, 27-32.

Fernández-Prieto, I., Navarra, J., Pons, F. (2015). How big is this sound? Crossmodal association between pitch and size in infants. Infant Behavior and Development, 38, 77-81.

Navarra, J., Soto-Faraco, S., Spence, C. (2014). Discriminating speech rhythms in audition, vision, and touch. Acta Psychologica.

Navarra, J., Fernández-Prieto, I., Garcia-Morera, J. (2013). Realigning thunder and lightning: Temporal adaptation to spatiotemporally distant events. PLOS ONE.

Weikum, W. M., Vouloumanos, A., Navarra, J., Soto-Faraco, S., Sebastián-Gallés, N., & Werker, J. F. (2013). Age-Related Sensitive Periods for Visual Language Discrimination in Adults. Frontiers in Systems Neuroscience, 7, 86.

Navarra, J., Yeung, H., Werker, J.F., Soto-Faraco, S. (2012). Multisensory interactions in speech perception. In: Stein, B. (ed.). The New Handbook of Multisensory Processes. USA: MIT Press, pp. 435-452.

Soto-Faraco, S., Calabresi, M., Navarra, J., Werker, J.F., Lewkowicz, D.J. (2012). Development of audiovisual speech perception. In: A. Bremner, D. Lewkowicz and C. Spence (eds). Multisensory Development. Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press., pp. 207-228.

Pons, F.; Teixidó, M.; Garcia-Morera, J.; Navarra, J. (2012). Short-term experience increases infants' sensitivity to audiovisual asynchrony. Infant Behavior and Development.

Navarra, J., Garcia-Morera, J., Spence, C. (2012). Temporal adaptation to audiovisual asynchrony generalizes across different sound frequencies. Frontiers in Psychology.

Velasco, I., Spence, C., Navarra, J. (2011). El sistema perceptivo: esa pequeña máquina del tiempo. Anales de Psicología, 27, 196-201.

Navarra, J., Alsius, A., Velasco, I., Soto-Faraco, S., Spence, C. (2010). Perception of audiovisual speech synchrony for native and non-native language. Brain Research, 1323, 84-93.

Navarra, J., Alsius, A., Spence, C., Soto-Faraco, S. (2010). Is attention involved in the audiovisual integration of speech? Information Fusion, 11, 4-11.

Navarra, J., Harcther, J., Piazza, E., Spence, C. (2009). Adaptation to audiovisual asynchrony modulates the speeded detection of sound. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences U.S.A. (PNAS), 106, 9169-9173.

Pereda, A., Navarra, J. and Soto-Faraco, S. (2009). Visuomotor interactions, mirror neurons and high-level cognitive processes: A brief review. In: A. Columbus (ed.): Advances in Psychology Research, vol. 64. New York: Nova Science Publishers Inc.

Vatakis, A., Navarra, J., Soto-Faraco, S., Spence, C. (2008). Audiovisual temporal adaptation of speech: Temporal order versus simultaneity judgments. Experimental Brain Research, 185, 521-529.

Alsius, A., Navarra, J., & Soto-Faraco, S. (2007). Attention to touch reduces audiovisual speech integration. Experimental Brain Research, 183, 399-404.

Weikum, W.M., Vouloumanos, A., Navarra, J., Soto-Faraco, S., Sebastián-Gallés, N., Werker, J.F. (2007). Visual Language Discrimination in Infancy. Science, 316, 1159.

Navarra, J., Soto-Faraco, S., Spence, C. (2007). Adaptation to audiotactile asynchrony. Neuroscience Letters, 413, 72-76.

Vatakis, A., Navarra, J., Soto-Faraco, S., & Spence, C. (2007). Temporal recalibration during asynchronous audiovisual speech perception. Experimental Brain Research, 181, 173-181.

Soto-Faraco, S., Navarra, J., Weikum, W., Vouloumanos, A., Sebastián-Gallés, N., Werker, J. (2007). Discriminating languages by speechreading. Perception & Psychophysics, 69, 218-231.

Navarra, J., Soto-Faraco, S. (2007). Hearing lips in a second language: Visual articulatory information enables the perception of L2 sounds. Psychological Research, 71, 4-12.

Navarra, J., Sebastián-Gallés, N., Soto-Faraco, S. (2005). The Perception of Second Language Sounds in early Bilinguals: New Evidence from an Implicit Measure. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 31, 912-918.

Navarra, J., Vatakis, A., Zampini, M., Soto-Faraco, S., Humphreys, W., Spence, C. (2005). Exposure to asynchronous audiovisual speech extends the temporal window for audiovisual integration. Brain Research: Cognitive Brain Research, 25, 499-507.

Alsius, A., Navarra, J., Campbell, R., Soto-Faraco, S. (2005). Audiovisual integration of speech falters under high attention demands. Current Biology, 15, 839-843.

Soto-Faraco, S., Navarra, J., Alsius, A., i Campbell, R. (2005). Efectos de la atención en la integración audiovisual del habla. Atencion y Procesamiento. València: Universitat de Valencia i Fundació Universitat Empresa. Isbn: 84-96221-07-5, dipòsit legal: V-3842-2005, 75-85.

Soto-Faraco, S., Navarra, J., Alsius, A. (2004). Assessing the automaticity of audiovisual speech integration: Evidence from the Speeded Classification Task. Cognition, 92, B13-B23.

Soto-Faraco, S., Navarra, J., Sinnett, S., Alsius, A. (2004). La re-unificación de los sentidos. Book review of: The Handbook of Multisensory Proceses. Cognitiva, 16, 257-259.

Navarra, J. (2003). Visual speech interference in an auditory shadowing task: the dubbed movie effect. 15th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences Proceedings (ISBN 1-876346-48-5). Barcelona, Spain.

New financed project to fight against malnutrition in children under chemotherapy treatment

Ya es oficial. Me hace feliz anunciar que la Asociación Española Contra el Cáncer (AECC) nos ha concedido una importante ayuda para un proyecto destinado a combatir los problemas de desnutrición de los niños que reciben quimioterapia. ¡Gracias!

It's official now. I'm glad to announce that the Spanish Association Against Cancer will finance our project to fight against malnutrition in children under chemotherapy treatment. Thanks!

Opening new paths for an early detection of Alzheimer's disease.

I'm proud to have a new paper accepted with my colleagues at the Hospital Clínic de Barcelona (Lorena Rami & José Luís Molinuevo):

Mollica, A., Navarra, J., Fernández-Prieto, I., Olives, J., Tort, A., Valech, N., Coll-Padrós, N., Molinuevo, J.L., Rami, L. (in press, 2015). Subtle visuomotor difficulties in preclinical Alzheimer's disease. Journal of Neuropsychology.

REALIGNING THUNDER AND LIGHTNING

Read our most recent paper on how asynchronous sensory signals are re-synchronized in the brain >> HERE <<

Alicia Koplowitz Foundation Grant

We have recently been awarded with a prestigious Alicia Koplowitz Research Grant to develop a project investigating motor deficits in ADHD. Thank you very much!