Agustina Birba (0000-0001-5998-6634)

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Dr. Birba obtained her PhD in 2021 from the Faculty of Exact and Natural Sciences at the National University of Buenos Aires, Argentina, where she specialized in cognitive neuroscience, neurolinguistics, and advanced neuroimaging techniques (EEG, MRI). During her doctoral studies, she trained under the mentorship of Dr. Manuel de Vega at the Neurocog Lab in Spain, gaining expertise in non-invasive brain stimulation methods such as transcranial magnetic stimulation and transcranial direct current stimulation. Her research centers on the neuropsychological, neurophysiological, and neuroanatomical bases of language and social cognition, both in healthy populations and in patients with neurological disorders.
Following her PhD, Dr. Birba received a grant contract by Takeda Pharmaceuticals to conduct postdoctoral research at the BrainLat Institute in Chile. In 2023, she joined the Instituto Universitario de Neurociencias (IUNE) at La Laguna University in Spain as a Juan de la Cierva fellow. There, she leads the EEG research team and oversees a major research program funded by a La Caixa-Caja Canarias Grant (2023DIG21, 2024–2027), which investigates natural language markers for neurodegenerative and neuropsychiatric diseases.
As part of the National Foreign Expert Program, Dr. Birba collaborates with the University of Electronic Science and Technology of China on pioneering research into bilingualism. Additionally, she is a lecturer in several academic programs, including the Master's in Social Neuroscience at ICESI University (Colombia), the Master's in Language and Cognition at the National University of Cuyo (Argentina), and graduate courses at La Laguna University (Spain), where she focuses on neurocognitive research methods and language processing.
Dr. Birba has an impressive academic output, with over 50 publications, including book chapters and articles in leading journals such as Biological Psychiatry, Nature Medicine, Scientific Reports, Neuroscience and Biobehavioral Reviews, Neuroimage, and Brain. Her work, which has more than 1,000 citations (H-index = 20 [Google Scholar]), reflects collaborations with over 50 co-authors from diverse nationalities, research disciplines, and institutions worldwide.

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Universidad de La Laguna: La Laguna, ES

2023-10 to present | EEG Team Leader (IUNE)

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Universidad de La Laguna: La Laguna, ES

Universidad de La Laguna - Campus Guajara: La Laguna, Islas Canarias, ES

Icesi University: Santiago de Cali, CO

Universidad de San Andrés: Buenos Aires, AR

Adolfo Ibáñez University: Santiago, CL

Universidad Nacional de Cuyo: Mendoza, AR

Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas: Buenos Aires, AR

Universidad Favaloro: Buenos Aires, AR

Universidad Favaloro: Buenos Aires, AR

Universidad de Buenos Aires: Buenos Aires, AR

Universidad de Buenos Aires: Buenos Aires, AR

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Universidad de Buenos Aires: Buenos Aires, AR

Universidad de Buenos Aires: Buenos Aires, AR

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Marcadores digitales neurolingüísticos para la detección de personas con enfermedad de Alzheimer y Parkinson

Marcadores neurolingüísticos para la detección de enfermedades neurodegenerativas

Juan de La Cierva (2021)

High density EEG biomarkers of sporadic and familial neurodegeneration: A comparison with cognitive and neuroimaging markers in multicultural samples

Potenciando el aprendizaje procedural y declarativo en pacientes con deterioro cognitivo leve, mediante estimulación cerebral no invasiva en combinación con entrenamiento específico.

Señales visuales y químicas en peces cíclidos y su relación con el comportamiento reproductivo

Señales visuales y químicas en peces cíclidos y su relación con el comportamiento reproductivo

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Brain clocks capture diversity and disparities in aging and dementia across geographically diverse populations

Brain health in diverse settings: How age, demographics and cognition shape brain function

Obsessive-compulsive Disorder and Depression in University Students: Serial Meditation of (Intrusive and Deliberate) Rumination and Social Anxiety

Electrophysiological alterations during action semantic processing in Parkinson’s disease

Multivariate word properties in fluency tasks reveal markers of Alzheimer's dementia

The BrainLat project, a multimodal neuroimaging dataset of neurodegeneration from underrepresented backgrounds

Impaired social concept processing in persons with autistic-like traits

Harmonized multi‐metric and multi‐centric assessment of EEG source space connectivity for dementia characterization

Social and non-social working memory in neurodegeneration

Source space connectomics of neurodegeneration: One-metric approach does not fit all

Social concepts and the cerebellum: behavioural and functional connectivity signatures in cerebellar ataxic patients

Body into Narrative: Behavioral and Neurophysiological Signatures of Action Text Processing After Ecological Motor Training

Genuine high-order interactions in brain networks and neurodegeneration

The EuroLaD‐EEG consortium: towards a global EEG platform for dementia, for seeking to reduce the regional impact of dementia

Multi-feature computational framework for combined signatures of dementia in underrepresented settings

Multidimensional inhibitory signatures of sentential negation in behavioral variant frontotemporal dementia

Allostatic interoceptive overload in frontotemporal dementia

An action-concept processing advantage in a patient with a double motor cortex

Dementia ConnEEGtome: Towards multicentric harmonization of EEG connectivity in neurodegeneration

The Bilingual Lexicon, Back and Forth: Electrophysiological Signatures of Translation Asymmetry

Multisession Anodal tDCS on the Right Temporo-Parietal Junction Improves Mentalizing Processes in Adults with Autistic Traits

Multimodal Neurocognitive Markers of Naturalistic Discourse Typify Diverse Neurodegenerative Diseases

Structural and functional motor-network disruptions predict selective action-concept deficits: Evidence from frontal lobe epilepsy

Multimodal mechanisms of human socially reinforced learning across neurodegenerative diseases

Multimodal neurocognitive markers of frontal lobe epilepsy: Insights from ecological text processing

Rekindling Action Language: A Neuromodulatory Study on Parkinson’s Disease Patients

The Neural Blending of Words and Movement: Event-Related Potential Signatures of Semantic and Action Processes during Motor–Language Coupling

Interoception Primes Emotional Processing: Multimodal Evidence from Neurodegeneration

Behavioral and neurophysiological signatures of interoceptive enhancements following vagus nerve stimulation

Disruptions of frontostriatal language functions in Parkinson's disease

At the Heart of Neurological Dimensionality: Cross-Nosological and Multimodal Cardiac Interoceptive Deficits

Electrifying discourse: Anodal tDCS of the primary motor cortex selectively reduces action appraisal in naturalistic narratives

Time to Face Language: Embodied Mechanisms Underpin the Inception of Face-Related Meanings in the Human Brain

How words ripple through bilingual hands: Motor-language coupling during L1 and L2 writing

Motor-system dynamics during naturalistic reading of action narratives in first and second language

A multidimensional and multi-feature framework for cardiac interoception

A moving story: Whole-body motor training selectively improves the appraisal of action meanings in naturalistic narratives

A game of two? Gene expression analysis of brain (cyp19a1b) and gonadal (cyp19a1a) aromatase in females of a Neotropical cichlid fish through the parental care period and removal of the offspring

Losing ground: Frontostriatal atrophy disrupts language embodiment in Parkinson’s and Huntington’s disease

Enhanced Working Memory Binding by Direct Electrical Stimulation of the Parietal Cortex

From molecule to behavior: Brain aromatase (cyp19a1b) characterization, expression analysis and its relation with social status and male agonistic behavior in a Neotropical cichlid fish

Non-Invasive Brain Stimulation: A New Strategy in Mild Cognitive Impairment?

Your perspective and my benefit: multiple lesion models of self-other integration strategies during social bargaining

The pineal complex: a morphological and immunohistochemical comparison between a tropical(Paracheirodon axelrodi)and a subtropical(Aphyocharax anisitsi)characid species

Reproductive and parental care physiology of Cichlasoma dimerus males

A multidisciplinary study on social status and the relationship between inter-individual variation in hormone levels and agonistic behavior in a Neotropical cichlid fish

The pineal complex in the cichlid Cichlasoma dimerus : effect of different photoperiods on its cell morphology