Irene Echeverria-Altuna

My research interests include attention, memory, language and speech, with a particular interest in how these processes unfold in time. During my PhD and ongoing postdoc at the B&C lab, I have and will continue to investigate how the brain flexibly and dynamically shifts attention to moments in time to perceive and produce temporally extended streams of stimuli. To this end, I combine behavioural tasks with fMRI, EEG, and/or MEG.

In 2019, I was awarded with a Wellcome Trust Doctoral Studentship (2019-2023) thanks to which I completed a PhD in Neuroscience at the University of Oxford under the supervision of Prof Kia Nobre, Prof Kate Watkins and Dr Kerry Walker. The final year of my PhD (2024) was funded by the Beca de Excelencia de la Fundación Rafael del Pino.

Before that, I completed a BSc in Neuroscience at University College London (UCL; 2014-2017), followed by a Masters in Brain and Mind Sciences (2017-2019) at UCL, École Normale Supérieure (ENS) and Université Pierre et Marie Curie (UPMC). The latter was funded by the la Caixa Studentship for Postgraduate Studies Abroad.