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A group of researchers from the University of Granada are working on the project "Evaluation of Neurodevelopment in Cuban children from 6 to 18 years old by means of the Infant Computerized Neuropsychological Evaluation Battery (BENCI)". María Nieves Pérez Marfil and Francisco Cruz Quintana, researchers at the CIMCYC, participate in this project.

Sergio Moreno-Ríos, a researcher at CIMCYC, is one of the authors of the article Signalling Three-Way Intersections: Is Redundancy Better Than Only Mandatory or Prohibitory Signs? published in Frontiers In Psychology journal. The paper reports a study that investigates what could be the best traffic signs to signal a three-way intersection based on the decision speed of the drivers.

CIMCYC researchers Juan Manuel Jiménez Ramos and Ignacio Morón have carried out a study on how lesions in the ventral hippocampus influence allocentric spatial memory, which was recently published in the journal Behavioral Brain Research.

Rafael Román Caballero, a researcher at CIMCYC, has been awarded in the first edition of the Lilly-The Conversation Foundation Health and Medicine Dissemination Award with the article “What are the brain benefits of playing an instrument?”

Researchers from the UGR; CIMCYC and DaSCI, have collaborated to develop a tool for the analysis of multivariate patterns in brain activity data obtained using the electroencephalography technique.

Last week, the conference "New advances in the consequences of gender violence" took place, organized by the Andalusian Women Institute’s Provincial Centre of Granada with the collaboration of the Mind, Brain and Behavior Research Center (CIMCYC).

A group of researchers from the Mind, Brain and Behavior Research Center of the University of Granada (UGR), members of the Laboratory of Social Psychology of Inequality (http://wwwlocal.ugr.es/~psidesigualdad/), have carried out a study in collaboration with the Euro-Arab Foundation for Higher Studies and the University of Salamanca on fake news verification. They characterized the use of the hashtag #StopBulos as an informal strategy for verifying information on the social network Twitter.