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  • Logonautes: An expedition to language and the brain aboard a story every day

    Logonautes: An expedition to language and the brain aboard a story every day

    Language is a mystery we experience every day. Almost without realizing it, we speak or sign, we dream in words, we think in sentences, we argue, we imagine, we remember… It’s a biological capacity, an invisible thread that runs through almost everything we are, that permeates every corner of our existence. It’s in our relationships,…

  • The neural basis of language

    The neural basis of language

    Yay! Our book is published! Together with my partner Oriol Borrega, we have written a book on the brain and the human faculty of language for National Geographic: El lenguaje. Las bases neuronales de la comunicación (Language. The neural basis of communication), for the publisher RBA, in the collection «Fronteras de la Ciencia» (Frontiers of…

  • Nosotros, robots

    Nosotros, robots

    In 2018, I wrote the script and documentation for the temporary exhibition “Us, Robots,” which opened in October in Madrid, for the Telefónica Foundation. My responsibility was to shape the entire historical and cultural journey of robots: from the automata of Ancient Greece to the first time someone used the word “robot,” including their most…

  • Talking Brains

    Talking Brains

    Temporary exhibition at the science museum of Barcelona (Cosmocaixa) on the human faculty of language from the point of view of the brain. I am a co-author and content manager of the exhibition. This means that, together with three other people, I thought of it and developed it from scratch. Together, we shaped it and…

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