Ongoing Research

Talks

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• 10th MMN Conference. Spain, 2024. Prediction in action: probing error and prediction signals in single neurons during active sensation.*Talk & symposium co-organizer with Dr. Steven Eliades, Duke University. 

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•  2nd Timing Research Forum. Mexico, 2019. Encoding of and predictive entrainment to auditory rhythms in the nonhuman primate. In the ‘Animal rhythms: Comparing species and methods’ symposium.

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• 58th Annual Meeting, Society for Psychophysiological Research. Canada, 2018 & 6th International Conference on Auditory Cortex. Canada, 2017. Monkeys share the neurophysiological basis for encoding sound periodicities captured by the frequency following response with humans.

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• 120th Annual Meeting of the Japanese Association of Anatomists & the 92nd Annual Meeting of the Physiological Society of Japan. Japan, 2015. Anatomical and physiological correlates of deviance detection in the auditory midbrain.

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• LVII National Congress on Physiological Sciences. Mexico, 2014. Neural circuitry of deviance detection in the auditory brain.

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• NEURONUS, IBRO & IRON Neuroscience Forum. Poland, 2014. Stimulus specific adaptation and its modulation by inhibition and acetylcholine in the auditory brain.

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• VIII Cajal Winter Conference. Spain, 2014. Is stimulus specific adaptation being affected by neuromodulators?

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• I. Leipzig Prediction in Audition Workshop. Germany, 2013. Cholinergic modulation of deviant sensitivity in neurons from the auditory midbrain. 

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• IV Probing the Auditory Novelty System Meeting. Israel, 2013. Role of GABAergic and glycinergic inhibition in shaping SSA in the inferior colliculus of the rat.

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• III Probing the Auditory Novelty System Meeting. Finland, 2011. Neuronal discriminability to deviant sounds in the inferior colliculus and cochlear nucleus of the rat.

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• II Probing the Auditory Novelty System Meeting. Spain, 2011. Context-dependent sensitivity to sound frequencies in inferior collicular neurons.

 

Poster 

 

• Ayala Y, Kikuchi Y, Calmus R, Berger J, Kovach C, Kawasaki H, Griffiths T, Howard III M, Petkov C. Human neuronal network sensitivity to probabilistic sequence learning. SFN, USA. 2024.

 

• Caffaratti H*, Ayala Y*, Calmus R*, Berger J, Christianson D, De Martino F, Yacoub E, Vizioli L, Magnotta V, Melloni L, Valiente T, Uludag K, Griffiths T, Chatterjee S, Abel T, Howard III M, Greenlee J, Petkov C. Neural entanglement of working memory and language: insights from human laminar fMRI and array recordings. SFN, USA. 2024. * equal contribution.

 

• Ayala Y, Marquez-Gutierrez JP, Prado L, Merchant H, Neural activation of auditory cortices during rhythmic behavior. SFN, USA. 2024.

 

• Ayala Y, Kikuchi Y, Calmus R, Berger J, Kovach C, Kawasaki H, Griffiths T, Howard III M, Petkov C. Human neuronal network sensitivity to probabilistic sequence learning. Advances and Perspectives in Auditory Neuroscience Meeting, USA. 2024.

 

• Ayala Y, Caffaratti H, Calmus R, Berger J, Christianson D, De Martino F, Yacoub E, Vizioli L, Magnotta V, Melloni L, Valiente T, Uludag K, Griffits T, Chatterjee S, Abel T, Howard III M, Greenlee J, Petkov C. Neural entanglement of working memory and language: Insights from human laminar array recordings and laminar fMRI. Gordon Research Conference: Neurobiology of Cognition, USA. 2024.

 

• Ayala YA. Kikuchi Y, Clamus R, Kovach C, Berjer JI, Kawasaki H, Griffiths T, Howard III MA, Petkov C. Neurons in the human brain sensitive to auditory statistical learning and temporal regularities. I Symposium on Audiomotor Integration for Cognition, Mexico. 2023. 

 

• Ayala YA. Merchant H. Activation of the auditory cortices in the macaque during movement synchronization to auditory rhythm. I Symposium on Audiomotor Integration for Cognition, Mexico. 2023.

 

• Ayala YA, Prado L., Merchant H. Predictive rhythmic tapping to sensory metronomes in the nonhuman primate. SFN, USA. 2019 and III Congress on Neurobiology, Mexican Society in Biochemistry, Mexico. 2019. 

 

• Ayala YA. Malmierca MS. Glycinergic and GABA-mediated inhibition on stimulus-specific adaptation in the inferior colliculus of the anesthetized rat. 39th ARO Meeting, USA. 2016.

 

• Ayala, Y.A., Malmierca, M.S. Neuromodulation of stimulus-specific adaptation in the inferior colliculus of the rat. 38th ARO Meeting. USA. 2015

 

• Ayala YA, Malmierca MS. Cholinergic modulation of Stimulus-Specific Adaptation. 9th FENS, Italy. 2014.

 

• Ayala YA, Udeh A, Dutta K, Bishop D, Malmierca M, Oliver D. Multiple Combination of Inputs to Inferior Colliculus Determines Synaptic Domains for Stimulus-Specific Adaptation (SSA) in Rat. 37th ARO Meeting, USA. 2014.

 

• Ayala YA, Malmierca MS. Effect of neuronal inhibition on SSA in the inferior colliculus of the rat. 10th Meeting of the German Neuroscience Society. Germany, 2013. 

 

• Ayala YA, Malmierca MS. The role of GABAergic and glycinergic inputs in shaping SSA. 35th ARO Meeting, USA. 2013.

 

• Ayala YA, Oliver DL, Cant NB, Malmierca MS. Single unit recordings in the cochlear nucleus of the anesthetized rat. 35th ARO Meeting, USA. 2013.

 

• Ayala YA. Malmierca MS. Effect of the inhibitory inputs on SSA. ERA-Neuron JTC 2009 ‘New Technologies’ Symposium organized by the Chief Scientist Office of the Israeli Ministry of Health, Israel. 2013.  

 

• Ayala YA, Perez-Gonzalez D, Malmierca MS. Role of the GABAergic and glycinergic inhibition in shaping stimulus-specific adaptation in the inferior colliculus. 8th FENS, Spain. 2012.

 

• Aguilar Ayala Y., Sanchez Malmierca, M., Pérez-González, D. Context-dependent sensitivity to sound frequencies in inferior colliculus neurons of the anaesthetized rat. XIV National Meeting of the Spanish Society for Neuroscience, Spain. 2011.

 

• Marquez-Gutierrez J, Ayala YA, Prado L, Mendoza G, Merchant H. Population dynamics in the primate audiomotor system during tapping synchronization. SFN, USA. 2024.

 

• Marquez P, Ayala YA, Prado L, Mendoza G, Merchant H. Population dynamics in the primate audiomotor system during tapping synchronization. 3rd Timing Research Forum, Portugal. 2023.

 

• García P, Ayala Y. Merchant H. Concha Loyola L. Longitudinal changes of cortical thickness during training to tap in synchrony to a metronome in the Rhesus monkey. Meeting of the Organization for the Human Brain Project, Italy. 2019.

 

• García-Saldivar P, Ayala Y. De Leon C, Marquez P, Prado L, Conchan L, Merchant H. Longitudinal changes of cortical thickness during training to tap in synchrony to a metronome in the Rhesus monkey. 2nd Timing Research Forum, Mexico. 2019.

 

• García P, De León-Andrez CI, Rodriguez-Cruces R., Ayala Y, Concha L, Merchant H. Human neuroanatomical and neurophysiological markers for timing variability during a synchronization-continuation task. SFN, USA. 2018.

 

• Valdés-Baizabal C, Gutierrez-Parra G, Ayala YA. Malmierca MS. Endocannabinoid Modulation of Stimulus-Specific Adaptation (SSA) in the Inferior Colliculus (IC) of the Rat. 39th ARO Meeting. USA. 2016.

 

• Malmierca MS, Ayala YA. The role of synaptic inputs on neural adaptation in midbrain. 2nd FALAN Meeting, Argentina. 2016.

 

• Malmierca MS, Ayala YA, Antunes FM, Duque D, Nieto J, Niño B, Perez-Gonzalez D, Wang X. To hear or not to hear: stimulus-specific adaptation in the auditory system. 12th International Conference on Cognitive Neuroscience. Australia, 2014.

 

•  Ortega A, Aguilar Y, Alexandrov VV, Alexandrova TB, Vega R, Soto E. Mathematical model of the response of the vestibular mechanoreceptor. LI National Congress of Physiological Sciences, Mexico. 2008.