Mikel Lizarazu

Research

Staff Scientist. Ramón y Cajal Fellow 2024-2028.

Keywords: brain lateralization, language acquisition and bilingualism, using MEG and EEG.

Research group: Brain Rhythms and Cognition

m.lizarazu@bcbl.eu

+34 943 309 300 Ext.: 208

2025

Fernández-Merino, L., Lizarazu, M., Molinaro, N., & Kalashnikova, M. (2025). Temporal Structure of Music Improves the Cortical Encoding of Speech. Human Brain Mapping, 46(5). Doi:10.1002/hbm.70199

2024

Pérez-Navarro, J., Klimovich-Gray, A., Lizarazu, M., Piazza, G., Molinaro, N., & Lallier, M. (2024). Early language experience modulates the tradeoff between acoustic-temporal and lexico-semantic cortical tracking of speech. iScience, 27(7). Doi:10.1016/j.isci.2024.110247

Ershaid, H., Lizarazu, M., McLaughlin, D., Cooke, M., Simantiraki, O., Koutsogiannaki, M., & Lallier, M. (2024). Contributions of listening effort and intelligibility to cortical tracking of speech in adverse listening conditions. Cortex, 172, 54-71. Doi:10.1016/j.cortex.2023.11.018

Schwarz, J., Lizarazu, M., Lallier, M., & Klimovich-Gray, A. (2024). Phonological deficits in dyslexia impede lexical processing of spoken words: Linking behavioural and MEG data. Cortex, 171, 204-222. Doi:10.1016/j.cortex.2023.10.003

Issa, M.F., Khan, I., Ruzzoli, M., Molinaro, N., & Lizarazu, M. (2024). On the speech envelope in the cortical tracking of speech. NeuroImage, 297. Doi:10.1016/j.neuroimage.2024.120675

Gastaldon, S., Busan, P., Molinaro, N., & Lizarazu, M. (2024). Cortical Tracking of Speech Is Reduced in Adults Who Stutter When Listening for Speaking. Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 67(11), 4339-4357. Doi:10.1044/2024_JSLHR-24-00227

2023

Lizarazu, M., Carreiras, M., & Molinaro, N. (2023). Theta-gamma phase-amplitude coupling in auditory cortex is modulated by language proficiency. Human Brain Mapping, 44(7), 2862-2872. Doi:10.1002/hbm.26250

2021

Molinaro, N., Lizarazu, M., Baldin, V., Pérez-Navarro, J., Lallier, M., & Ríos-López, P. (2021). Speech-brain phase coupling is enhanced in low contextual semantic predictability conditions. Neuropsychologia, 156. Doi:10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2021.107830

Lizarazu, M., Lallier, M., Bourguignon, M., Carreiras, M., & Molinaro, N. (2021). Impaired neural response to speech edges in dyslexia. Cortex, 135, 207-218. Doi:10.1016/j.cortex.2020.09.033

Caffarra, S., Lizarazu, M., Molinaro, N., & Carreiras, M. (2021). Reading-related brain changes in audiovisual processing: Cross-sectional and longitudinal MEG evidence. Journal of Neuroscience, 41(27), 5867-5875. Doi:10.1523/JNEUROSCI.3021-20.2021

Nara, S., Lizarazu, M., Richter, C.G., Dima, D.C., Cichy, R.M., Bourguignon, M., & Molinaro, N. (2021). Temporal uncertainty enhances suppression of neural responses to predictable visual stimuli. NeuroImage, 239. Doi:10.1016/j.neuroimage.2021.118314

Lizarazu, M., Carreiras, M., Bourguignon, M., Zarraga, A., & Molinaro, N. (2021). Language Proficiency Entails Tuning Cortical Activity to Second Language Speech. Cerebral Cortex, 31(8), 3820-3831. Doi:10.1093/cercor/bhab051

Lizarazu, M., Scotto di Covella, L., van Wassenhove, V., Rivière, D., Mizzi, R., Lehongre, K., Hertz-Pannier, L., & Ramus, F. (2021). Neural entrainment to speech and nonspeech in dyslexia: Conceptual replication and extension of previous investigations. Cortex, 137, 160-178. Doi:10.1016/j.cortex.2020.12.024

2020

Bourguignon, M., Molinaro, N., Lizarazu, M., Taulu, S., Jousmäki, V., Lallier, M., Carreiras, M., & De Tiège, X. (2020). Neocortical activity tracks the hierarchical linguistic structures of self-produced speech during reading aloud. NeuroImage, 216. Doi:10.1016/j.neuroimage.2020.116788

Lizarazu, M., Gil-Robles, S., Pomposo, I., Nara, S., Amoruso, L., Quiñones, I., & Carreiras, M. (2020). Spatiotemporal dynamics of postoperative functional plasticity in patients with brain tumors in language areas. Brain and Language, 202. Doi:10.1016/j.bandl.2019.104741

2019

Lizarazu, M., Lallier, M., & Molinaro, N. (2019). Phase−amplitude coupling between theta and gamma oscillations adapts to speech rate. Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences, 1453(1), 140-152. Doi:10.1111/nyas.14099

2018

Molinaro, N., & Lizarazu, M. (2018). Delta(but not theta)-band cortical entrainment involves speech-specific processing. European Journal of Neuroscience, 48(7), 2642-2650. Doi:10.1111/ejn.13811

2017

Ríos-López, P., Molnar, M.T., Lizarazu, M., & Lallier, M. (2017). The role of slow speech amplitude envelope for speech processing and reading development. Frontiers in Psychology, 8. Doi:10.3389/fpsyg.2017.01497

Caffarra, S., Martin, C.D., Lizarazu, M., Lallier, M., Zarraga, A., Molinaro, N., & Carreiras, M. (2017). Word and object recognition during reading acquisition: MEG evidence. Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience, 24, 21-32. Doi:10.1016/j.dcn.2017.01.002

Lallier, M., Molinaro, N., Lizarazu, M., Bourguignon, M., & Carreiras, M. (2017). Amodal Atypical Neural Oscillatory Activity in Dyslexia: A Cross-Linguistic Perspective. Clinical Psychological Science, 5(2), 379-401. Doi:10.1177/2167702616670119

2016

Molinaro, N., Lizarazu, M., Lallier, M., Bourguignon, M., & Carreiras, M. (2016). Out-of-synchrony speech entrainment in developmental dyslexia. Human Brain Mapping, 37(8), 2767-2783. Doi:10.1002/hbm.23206

Molinaro, N., Monsalve, I.F., & Lizarazu, M. (2016). Is there a common oscillatory brain mechanism for producing and predicting language?. Language, Cognition and Neuroscience, 31(1), 145-158. Doi:10.1080/23273798.2015.1077978

2015

Lizarazu, M., Lallier, M., Molinaro, N., Bourguignon, M., Paz-Alonso, P.M., Lerma-Usabiaga, G., & Carreiras, M. (2015). Developmental evaluation of atypical auditory sampling in dyslexia: Functional and structural evidence. Human Brain Mapping, 36(12), 4986-5002. Doi:10.1002/hbm.22986

Carreiras, M., Monahan, P.J., Lizarazu, M., Duñabeitia, J.A., & Molinaro, N. (2015). Numbers are not like words: Different pathways for literacy and numeracy. NeuroImage, 118, 79-89. Doi:10.1016/j.neuroimage.2015.06.021

Pagnotta, M.F., Zouridakis, G., Li, L., Lizarazu, M., Lallier, M., Molinaro, N., & Carreiras, M. (2015). Low frequency overactivation in dyslexia: Evidence from resting state Magnetoencephalography. Proceedings of the Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, EMBS, 2015-November, 6959-6962. Doi:10.1109/EMBC.2015.7319993

2022

DEEP LEARNING: A deep learning approach to understand neural compensatory mechanisms in dyslexia

Program: PIBA_2022_1_0015
Funding agency: Basque Government
08/2022- 08/2024
Funding: 50.000 €
PI:Mikel Lizarazu

2024

Rivolta CL., Costello B., Lizarazu M. & Carreiras M. (2024). The role of different articulators in cortical tracking of sign language. Presenter XIV Conference of the Spanish Society for Experimental Psychology (SEPEX) University of Almería

2023

Rivolta CL., Costello B., Lizarazu M. & Carreiras M. (2023). Language-brain entrainment: a crossmodal comparison of spoken and signed languages Presenter Formal and Experimental Advances in Sign Language Theory (FEAST 2023) University of Bergen

Rivolta CL., Costello B., Lizarazu M. & Carreiras M. (2023). Do the eyes retune the ears? MEG evidence that sign language knowledge affects how we process spoken language. Presenter Society for the Neurobiology of Language (SNL 2023) 15th Annual Meeting

Rivolta CL., Costello B., Lizarazu M. & Carreiras M. (2023). Neural tracking in the visual domain: the role of different articulators in sign language comprehension. Presenter Society for the Neurobiology of Language (SNL 2023) 15th Annual Meeting

Rivolta CL., Costello B., Lizarazu M. & Carreiras M. (2023). A Crossmodal Comparison Of Language-brain Entrainment In Spoken And Signed Languages. Presenter 23rd Conference of the European Society for Cognitive Psychology (ESCoP) University of Porto

2022

Fernández-Merino, L., Lizarazu, M., Molinaro, N., Kalashnikova, M. (2022). Follow the rhythm: Basque-Spanish bilingual infants' cortical tracking of speech after brief exposure to music. Oral presentation at the International Congress of Infant Studies (ICIS) Ottawa, Canada.

Fernández-Merino, L., Lizarazu, M., Molinaro, N., Kalashnikova, M. (2022). The rhythm takes it all: A developmental approach to Basque-Spanish bilingual speakers' cortical tracking of speech after brief exposure to music. Oral presentation at the Workshop on Infant Language Development (WILD), Donostia-San Sebastián, Spain.

2021

Pastureau, R., Lizarazu M., Molinaro, N. (2021). How the Entrainment to Gesturing, Lip-Reading and Speech Contribute to Comprehension - A MEG Exploratory Study Poster presenter CuttingEEG 2021 Université d'Aix-Marseille (France)