PUBLICATIONS

Published Articles:

(Google Scholar: h-index = 12 and 837 citations; Web of Science: h-index = 10 and 364 citations)

León, I.; Rodrigo, M.J.; Quiñones, I.; Hernández-Cabrera, J.A.; García-Pentón, L. (2021) Distinctive Frontal and Occipitotemporal Surface Features in Neglectful Parenting. Brain Sci. 11(3):387. https://doi.org/10.3390/brainsci11030387.

Rodrigo, M.J., Leon, I., García-Pentón, L., Hernandez-Cabrera, J.A., Quinones, I. (2019) Neglectful maternal caregiving involves altered brain volume in empathy-related areas. Development and Psychopathology, 17:1-10. doi:10.1017/S0954579419001469.

García-Pentón, L., Fernández García, Y., Duñabeitia, J.A., Pérez, A. & Carreiras, M. (2019) Neuroanatomical correlates in bilinguals: the case of children and elderly. bioRxiv preprint 586768; doi:10.1101/586768.

Van de Putte, E., De Baene, W., García-Pentón, L., Woumans, E., Dijkgraaf, A., Duyck, W. (2017) Anatomical and functional changes in the brain after simultaneous interpreting training: A longitudinal study. Cortex, 99,243-257. doi:10.1016/j.cortex.2017.11.024.

García-Pentón, L., Fernández García, Y., Costello, B., Duñabeitia, J.A., & Carreiras, M. (2016) “Hazy” or “jumbled”? Putting together the pieces of the bilingual puzzle. Language, Cognition & Neuroscience, 31(3), 353-360. doi:10.1080/23273798.2015.1135247

García-Pentón, L., Fernández García, Y., Costello, B., Duñabeitia, J.A., & Carreiras, M. (2015) The neuroanatomy of bilingualism: how to turn a hazy view into the full picture. Language, Cognition & Neuroscience. 31(3), 303-327. doi:10.1080/23273798.2015.1068944

Pérez, A., Gillon Dowens, M., Molinaro, N., Iturria-Medina, Y., Barraza, P., García-Pentón, L., & Carreiras, M. (2015) Complex brain network properties in late L2 learners and native speakers. Neuropsychologia, 68, 209–217. doi:10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2015.01.021.

García-Pentón, L., Pérez, A., Iturria-Medina, Y., Gillon-Dowens, M., & Carreiras, M. (2014). Anatomical Connectivity Changes in the Bilingual Brain. NeuroImage, 84: 495-504. doi:10.1016/j.neuroimage.2013.08.064.

Pérez, A., García-Pentón, L., Canales-Rodríguez, E.J., Lerma-Usabiaga, G., Iturria-Medina, Y., Román, F.J., Davidson, D. J., Alemán-Gómez, Y., Acha, J., & Carreiras, M. (2014) Brain morphometry of Dravet Syndrome. Epilepsy Research, 108(8), 1326-1334. doi:10.1016/j.eplepsyres.2014.06.006.

Bobes, M.A., Lage Castellanos, A., Quiñones, I., García-Pentón, L., & Valdes-Sosa, M. (2013) Timing and Tuning for Familiarity of Cortical Responses to Faces. PLoS ONE 8(10): e76100. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0076100.

Valdés-Sosa, M., Bobes, M.A., Quiñones, I., García-Pentón, L., Valdes-Hernandez, P.A., Iturria, Y., Melie-Garcia, L., Lopera, F., & Asencio, J. (2011) Covert face recognition without the fusiform-temporal pathways. NeuroImage. 57(3), 1162 -1176. doi:10.1016/j.neuroimage.2011.04.057

Iturria-Medina, Y., Pérez, A., Morris, D. M, Canales, E. J., Haroon H. A, García-Pentón, L., Augath, M., Galán, L., Logothetis, N., Parker, G. J., & Melie, L. (2011) Brain Hemispheric Structural Efficiency and Interconnectivity Rightward Asymmetry in Human and Nonhuman Primates. Cerebral Cortex, 21(1), 56-67. doi:10.1093/cercor/bhq058

Iturria-Medina, Y., Pérez, A., Valdés, P., García-Pentón, L., Canales-Rodríguez, E.J., Melie, L., Lage, A., & Ontivero, M. (2011) Automated Discrimination of Brain Pathological State Attending to Complex Structural Brain Network Properties: the Shiverer Mutant Mouse Case. PLoS ONE, 6(5): e19071. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0019071.

Pérez, A., García-Pentón, L., Valdés-Sosa, M., & Jaśkowski, P., (2011) Influence of the learnt direction of reading on temporal order judgments. Psychology, vol.2, No.2, 103-108. doi:10.4236/psych.2011.22017.

Ibáñez, A., Riveros, R., Aravena, P., Vergara, V., Cardona, J. F., García-Pentón, L., Hurtado, E. Reyes, M. M., Barutta, J. & Manes, F. (2011) When context is difficult to integrate: Cortical measures of congruency in schizophrenia and healthy relatives. Schizophrenia Research. 126(1-3): 303-305. doi:10.1016/j.schres.2010.04.008.

García-Pentón, L., Pérez, A., Bobes, M.A., Acosta, Y., Galán L., Iturria-Medina, Y., Leh, S.E., & Valdés-Sosa, M. (2010) Neural activation while perceiving biological motion in dynamic facial expressions and point-light body action animations. Neural Regeneration Research. 5 (14), 1076-1083. doi:10.3969/j.issn.1673-5374.2010.14.007.

Pérez, A., Peers, P. V., Valdés-Sosa, M., Galán, L., García-Pentón, L. & Martínez, E. (2009) Hemispheric modulations of alpha-band power reflect the rightward shift in attention induced by enhanced attentional load. Neuropsychologia, 47, 41-49. doi:10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2008.08.017.

Pérez, A., García-Pentón, L., Lage, A., Leh, S. E. & Valdés-Sosa, M. (2008) Right impairment of temporal order judgments in dyslexic children. Laterality. Asymmetries of Body, Brain and Cognition, 13, 545-560. doi:10.1080/13576500802095790.

Pérez, A., García-Pentón, L. & Valdés-Sosa, M. (2008) Rightward shift in temporal order judgments in the wake of the attentional blink. Psicológica. International Journal of Methodology and Experimental Psychology, 29, 35-55.

Thesis:

Garcia Penton, L. (2017) Bilingualism across the lifespan: Neuroanatomical correlates. [PDF] from ehu.es

Submitted/Under Review Articles:

Ramanan, S., Halai, A., Garcia-Penton, L., Perry, A., Patel, N., Peterson, K.A., Ingram, R., Storey, I., Cappa, S., Catricalà, E., Patterson, K., Rowe, J.B., Garrard, P., and Lambon Ralph, M. The neural substrates of transdiagnostic cognitive-linguistic heterogeneity in primary progressive aphasia

Garcia-Penton, L., Halai, A., Ramanan, S., Patel, N., Ingram, R., Cappa, S., Patterson, K., Rowe, J.B., Garrard, P., Lambon Ralph, M. Mapping multidimensional behavioural geometries to brain: application to language disorders in frontotemporal dementia.

Under Preparation Manuscripts:

Garcia-Penton, L., Halai, A., Ramanan, S., Patel, N., Ingram, R., Cappa, S., Patterson, K., Rowe, J.B., Garrard, P., Lambon Ralph, M. Exploring multivariate brain-behaviour associations: Mapping the complex interplay of language functions.

Garcia-Penton, L., Smolka, E., Bozic, M. UNDER-STANDING: combinatorial processing in German.

Ling, S., Garcia-Penton, L., Armstrong, B.C., Lee, A.C.H, Nestor, A. Uncovering neural-based visual-orthographic representations from mental imagery.

Posters/talks Presentations:

Ling, S., Garcia-Penton, L., Armstrong, B.C., Lee, A.C.H, Nestor, A. Uncovering neural-based visual-orthographic representations from mental imagery. Vision Sciences Society (VSS). 2023, Florida, USA. https://www.visionsciences.org/presentation/?id=5118. [Poster]

Garcia-Penton, L., Halai, A., Ramanan, S., Patel, N., Ingram, R., Cappa, S., Patterson, K., Rowe, J.B., Garrard, P., Lambon Ralph, M. Deconstructing the transdiagnostic nature of language symptoms on frontotemporal lobar degeneration syndromes. The International Society for Frontotemporal Dementias (ISFTD). 2022, Lille, France. https://isftd-france2022.com/uploads/ABSTRACTS-POSTERS/POSTER%20195.pdf. [Poster]

Ramanan, S., Halai, A., Garcia-Penton, L., Patel, N., Ingram, R., Cappa, S., Patterson, K., Rowe, J.B., Garrard, P., Lambon Ralph, M. (2022). Identifying white matter signatures of cognitive heterogeneity in primary progressive aphasia: a data-driven transdiagnostic approach. The International Society for Frontotemporal Dementias (ISFTD). 2022, Lille, France. https://isftd-france2022.com/uploads/ABSTRACTS-POSTERS/POSTER%2025.pdf. [Poster]

Garcia-Penton, L., Halai, A., Ramanan, S., Patel, N., Ingram, R., Cappa, S., Patterson, K., Rowe, J.B., Garrard, P., Lambon Ralph, M. (2022). Deconstructing the transdiagnostic nature of language symptoms in frontotemporal dementia. Poster presented at CLS annual symposium. 2022, Cambridge, UK. Cambridge Open Engage. doi: 10.33774/coe-2022-wlc12 . [Poster]

Garcia-Penton, L. Deconstructing the transdiagnostic nature of PPA. Consciousness and Cognition Lab. Department of Psychology, University of Cambridge. 2022, Cambridge, UK. [Departmental invited talk].

Garcia-Penton, L. The neural bases of language processing. MSc. programme in Fundamental and Translational Neuroscience. Pablo de Olavide University. 2021, Sevilla, Spain. [Invited lecture]

Garcia-Penton, L. Neuroanatomical correlates of bilingualism. Ph.D. programme. Valparaiso University, 2021, Valparaiso, Chile. [Invited talk]

Garcia-Penton, L., Smolka, E., Bozic, M. UNDER-STANDING: combinatorial processing in German. Society for the Neurobiology of Language (SNL). 2020, Online. https://www.neurolang.org/programs/SNL_2020_Program.pdf. [Poster]

Garcia-Penton, L. The neural bases of language processing. Psychology undergraduate program. University of Toronto Scarborough Campus (UTSC). 2019, Toronto, Canada. [Invited lecture]

Garcia-Penton, L. Bilingualism across the lifespan: Neuroanatomical correlates. Department of Psychology, University of Toronto Scarborough. 2017, Toronto, Canada. [Departmental invited talk].

Garcia-Penton, L.., Dunabeitia, J.A., Carreiras, M. Is there a bilingual advantage in executive function? XIII International Symposium of Psycholinguistics. 2017, Braga, Portugal. [Oral presentation]

Garcia-Penton, L., Fernandez, Y., Duñabeitia, J.A., Carreiras, M. Grey matter changes associated to bilingualism across lifespan: combining voxel-based morphometry and cortical thickness. The 8th Annual Meeting of the Society for the Neurobiology of Language (SNL). 2016, London, United Kingdom. [Poster]

Fernández Garcia, Y., Garcia-Penton, L., Quiñones, I., Carreiras, M., Duñabeitia, J.A. (2015). Digging into the bilingual brain in the elderly: preliminary results. 20th Biennial Meeting of the International Society of Development Neuroscience (ISDN). 2014, Montreal, Canada. International Journal of Developmental Neuroscience. 47, Part A. Page 96. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijdevneu.2015.04.262. [Poster]

Pérez, A., Garcia-Penton, L., Canales-Rodríguez, E.J., Lerma-Usabiaga, Davidson, D., Iturria-Medina, Y., Acha, J., Carreiras, M. (2015) Brain morphometry of Dravet Syndrome. 20th Biennial Meeting of the International Society of Development Neuroscience (ISDN). 2014, Montreal, Canada. International Journal of Developmental Neuroscience. 47, Part A. Page 33. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijdevneu.2015.04.096. [Poster]

Delgado-Alvarado, M., Garcia-Penton, L., Jimenez-Urbieta, H., Gago, B., Caballero, C., Carreiras, M., & Rodriguez-Oroz, M.C.. Gray matter changes in Parkinson's disease with freezing of gait. In MOVEMENT DISORDERS. 2015, NJ USA. Vol. 30, pp. S4-S4. WILEY-BLACKWELL. https://movementdisorders.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/mds.26295. [Poster]

Garcia-Penton, L., Pérez, A.; Iturria-Medina, I., Carreiras, M. Bilingualism triggers anatomical connectivity changes in the brain. International Workshop on Bilingualism and Cognitive Control. 2013, Krakow, Poland. [Poster]

Garcia-Penton, L., Fernandez, Y., Duñabeitia, J.A., Carreiras, M. How does lifelong bilingualism alter the structure and connectivity of the brain. Neurogune. 2014, Donostia-San Sebastian, País Vasco, Spain. [Poster]

Fernández, Y., Garcia-Penton, L., Quiñones, I., Carreiras, M., Duñabeitia, J.A. Does age of second language acquisition modulate grey-matter volume in the elderly? 20th Annual Meeting of the Organization for Human Brain Mapping (OHBM). 2014, Hamburg, Germany. [Poster]

Lerma-Usabiaga, G., Garcia-Penton, L., Carreiras, M., Paz-Alonso, P.M. Hippocampal structural differences associated with mnemonic control across different methodologies. The Annual Meeting of the Society for Neuroscience. 2013, San Diego, California, EUA. [Poster]

Garcia-Penton, L., Pérez, A., Iturria-Medina, Y. Carreiras, M. Anatomical connectivity changes in the bilingual brain. 18th Annual Meeting of the Organization for Human Brain Mapping (OHBM). 2012, Beijing, China. [Poster]

Garcia-Penton, L., Iturria-Medina Y., Aleman-Gómez Y., Canales-Rodríguez, E.J. and Carreiras, M. Anatomical changes in the bilingual brain: combining voxel-based morphometry (VBM) and diffusion tensor imaging (DTI). XI International Conference on Cognitive Neuroscience (ICON). 2011, Mallorca, Spain. Front. Hum. Neurosci. doi: 10.3389/conf.fnhum.2011.207.00182. https://www.frontiersin.org/10.3389/conf.fnhum.2011.207.00182/event_abstract. [Poster]

Garcia, L., Pérez, A., Acosta, Y., Bobes, M. A., & Valdes-Sosa, M. (2008) Common neural activation perceiving biological motion in dynamic fearful facial expressions and point-light animations of body actions. Poster presented at the 4th Congress of the Cuban Society and First Ibero-American Workshop on Clinical Neurophysiology. 2008, Varadero, Cuba. Clinical Neurophysiology, 119, e50-e51. [Poster]

Pérez, A., Martínez-Montes, E., Peers, P. V., Galán, L., Garcia, L., & Valdes-Sosa, M. (2008) Asymmetries in the modulation of alpha-band power for high attentional load conditions: Involvement of the attentional control mechanism. 4th Congress of the Cuban Society and First Ibero-American Workshop on Clinical Neurophysiology. 2008, Varadero, Cuba. Clinical Neurophysiology, 119, e63. [Poster]

Bobes, M.A., Valdes-Sosa, M., Quiñones, I., Garcia, L., Iturria, Y., Lopera, F. Neural basis of familiar faces processing in normal controls and in prosopagnosia. 5th Latin American Congress of Clinical Neurophysiology. 2008, Varadero, Cuba. Clinical Neurophysiology, 119, supplement 2, S144. [Poster]

Garcia-Penton, L., Acosta-Ymas, Y., Melie-García, L., Valdés-Hernández, P.A., Valdés-Sosa, M. Neural activation conjunction analysis related to emotional dynamic expressions and biological motion. Poster presented at the 12th Annual Meeting of the Organization for Human Brain Mapping (OHBM). 2006, Florence, Italy. Neuroimage, 31, Special Issue, S29-S185. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuroimage.2006.04.176. [Poster]

Garcia-Penton, L., Acosta-Ymas, Y. & Valdés-Sosa, M. Adaptación Visual a Caras. Scientific Seminar at CNC. 2006, La Havana, Cuba. [Poster]

Garcia-Penton, L., Acosta-Ymas, Y., Melie-García, L., Valdés-Hernández, P.A., Valdés-Sosa, M.. Neural activations related to processing of dynamic emotional expressions. IX International Conference on Cognitive Neuroscience (ICON9). 2005, La Havana, Cuba. [Poster]

Garcia-Penton, L., Acosta-Ymas, Y., Melie-García, L., Valdés-Hernández, P.A., Valdés-Sosa, M. Procesamiento de expresiones faciales emocionales en movimiento. 14th International Scientific Congress at CNIC. 2005, La Havana, Cuba. [Poster]