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IBEC Christmas Party 2015

We’re delighted to invite all IBECers to the biggest, best IBEC Christmas Party Ever! This year, there’ll be a chance to take part in a charity event to raise money … Read more

IBEC Christmas Party 2015

We’re delighted to invite all IBECers to the biggest, best IBEC Christmas Party Ever! This year, there’ll be a chance to take part in a charity event to raise money … Read more

“La luz: que buen rollo!”

2015 12 01 PGorostiza MuyInteresantePau Gorostiza’s work is included in a extensive article about the science of light in the magazine Muy Interesante this month.

PhD Defence: Aitor Sánchez

“Biomimetic hydrogels for in situ bone tissue engineering. Nature-inspired crosslinking methods as a tool to tune scaffold physical properties”

PhD Defence: Aitor Sánchez

“Biomimetic hydrogels for in situ bone tissue engineering. Nature-inspired crosslinking methods as a tool to tune scaffold physical properties”

How we learn in chunks – and what it means for the brain

fonollosa numbersIn some research conducted with his colleagues at the University of California San Diego, IBEC senior researcher Jordi Fonollosa has shed some light on the mechanisms behind how we memorize sequences – as well as how failures in these mechanisms can provide insight into neurological disorders.

Previous behavioral experiments suggest that humans and some animals learn and recall sequences in smaller segments.