Manuel Garcia-Garcia, PhD, is a postdoctoral fellow in the Phyllis Green and Randolph Cōwen Institute for Pediatric Neuroscience at the NYU Child Study Center. Dr. Garcia-Garcia is interested in brain functional connectivity in the Basal Ganglia related with individual differences in cognitive control, and fast track EEG/fMRI integration. His previous work includes EEG studies on the modulation of involuntary attention by an emotional context and gender differences found in such modulation. Moreover, he has performed time-frequency domain analysis to study the phase-coherence of gamma-band responses to brain mechanisms of involuntary attention. Moreover, he has studied the role of dopamine-related genes (i.e., COMT, DAT and DRD2) on such mechanisms of involuntary attention and mental set-switching.

Dr. Garcia-Garcia received his B.A. and M.Sc. in psychology from the University of Granada, Spain. He got his PhD in cognitive neurosciences at the University of Barcelona with two research stays at the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences and the National University of Singapore. He completed postgraduate training at in New York at Rockefeller University.

Dr. Garcia-Garcia is the author of seven peer-reviewed journal articles, and reviewer on several journals. He is a member of the Organization of Human Brain Mapping, the New York Academy of Sciences and the Spanish Society of Psychophysiology. He obtained several scholarships from the European Union, as well as fellowships from the Spanish Ministry of Science and Innovation and the Catalan Government. He is currently under a fellowship of the Foundation Ramon Areces and has been awarded with stipends of different organizations such as the Organization of Human Brain Mapping, the European Science Foundation and the Technical University of Dresden.