Search Results - "Rafael Román"

Musical practice as an enhancer of cognitive function in healthy aging - A systematic review and meta-analysis by Román-Caballero, Rafael, Arnedo, Marisa, Triviño, Mónica, Lupiáñez, Juan

“…Aging is accompanied by cognitive decline, although recent research indicates that the rate of decline depends on multiple lifestyle factors. One of such…”
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Arrows don’t look at you: Qualitatively different attentional mechanisms triggered by gaze and arrows by Marotta, Andrea, Román-Caballero, Rafael, Lupiáñez, Juan

“…Eye gaze conveys rich information concerning the states of mind of others, playing a critical role in social interactions, signaling internal states, and…”
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Are gender and cultural diversities on board related to corporate CO2 emissions? by Valls Martínez, María del Carmen, Santos-Jaén, José Manuel, Soriano Román, Rafael, Martín-Cervantes, Pedro Antonio

“…This paper aims to explore whether the female share on the boards of directors of companies influences CO2 emissions in both developed and emerging markets…”
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Reconstructing ancient dispersal through Antarctica: A case study of stream‐inhabiting beetles by Sýkora, Vít, Herrera‐Alsina, Leonel, Maier, Crystal, Martínez‐Román, Nicolás Rafael, Archangelsky, Miguel, Bilton, David T., Seidel, Matthias, Leschen, Richard A. B., Fikáček, Martin

“…AimAlthough Antarctica hosted a diverse fauna and flora in the past, its modern climate is too extreme for many lineages: their recent extinction makes it…”
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Women in monitoring positions and market risk. Are the stocks of companies with gender diverse boards less volatile? by Valls Martínez, María del Carmen, Soriano Román, Rafael

“…Gender equality is included in the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals and in the Global Jobs Pact of the International Labour Organization. Many…”
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Should risk-averse investors target the portfolios of socially responsible companies? by Valls Martínez, María del Carmen, Soriano Román, Rafael, Mart´ín-Cervantes, Pedro Antonio

“…Research background: Companies are required to implement Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) policies to mitigate the adverse social and environmental…”
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COVID-19 and Public Health Spending; Effects on the Economic Sustainability of the Spanish Private Healthcare System by Valls Martínez, María Del Carmen, Santos-Jaén, José Manuel, Valls-Úbeda, Rafael Félix, Soriano Román, Rafael

“…This research analyzes the influence of COVID-19 and public health spending policies on the economic sustainability of Spanish private hospitals. Moreover, it…”
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Propiedades psicométricas del DESIT-17 para la medición de la satisfacción académica en estudiantes de Ciencias Médicas de la Universidad de Iberoamérica (UNIBE) by Román-Quirós, Rafael

“…Las universidades tienen una crucial responsabilidad en su papel de formación social y profesional, además de ser vehículos de movilidad social en el actual y…”
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Time-Based and Event-Based Prospective Memory in Mild Cognitive Impairment and Alzheimer's Disease Patients: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis by Román-Caballero, Rafael, Mioni, Giovanna

“…Prospective memory (PM) is the ability to remember to perform planned actions in a future moment and it is of fundamental importance for an independent and…”
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Assessing the Evidential Value of Mental Fatigue and Exercise Research by Holgado, Darías, Mesquida, Cristian, Román-Caballero, Rafael

“…It has often been reported that mental exertion, presumably leading to mental fatigue, can negatively affect exercise performance; however, recent findings…”
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Prospective and retrospective timing in mild cognitive impairment and Alzheimer’s disease patients: A systematic review and meta-analysis by Mioni, Giovanna, Román-Caballero, Rafael, Clerici, Jacopo, Capizzi, Mariagrazia

“…Performance on timing tasks changes with age. Whether these changes reflect a real “clock” problem due to aging or a secondary effect of the reduced cognitive…”
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Zapping the brain to enhance sport performance? An umbrella review of the effect of transcranial direct current stimulation on physical performance by Holgado, Darías, Sanabria, Daniel, Vadillo, Miguel A., Román-Caballero, Rafael

“…Concepts such as "neurodoping" have contributed to an expansion in the area of transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS) and its impact over physical…”
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A High-Definition tDCS and EEG study on attention and vigilance: Brain stimulation mitigates the executive but not the arousal vigilance decrement by Luna, Fernando G., Román-Caballero, Rafael, Barttfeld, Pablo, Lupiáñez, Juan, Martín-Arévalo, Elisa

“…Attention comprises a wide set of processes such as phasic alertness, orienting, executive control, and the executive (i.e., detecting infrequent targets) and…”
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Changes in Response Criterion and Lapse Rate as General Mechanisms of Vigilance Decrement: Commentary on McCarley and Yamani (2021) by Román-Caballero, Rafael, Martín-Arévalo, Elisa, Lupiáñez, Juan

“…Multiple theories have used perceptual sensitivity and response criterion indices to explain the decrements in performance across time on task (i.e., vigilance…”
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An umbrella review of randomized control trials on the effects of physical exercise on cognition by Ciria, Luis F., Román-Caballero, Rafael, Vadillo, Miguel A., Holgado, Darias, Luque-Casado, Antonio, Perakakis, Pandelis, Sanabria, Daniel

“…Extensive research links regular physical exercise to an overall enhancement of cognitive function across the lifespan. Here we assess the causal evidence…”
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Attentional networks functioning and vigilance in expert musicians and non-musicians by Román-Caballero, Rafael, Martín-Arévalo, Elisa, Lupiáñez, Juan

“…Previous literature has shown cognitive improvements related to musical training. Attention is one cognitive aspect in which musicians exhibit improvements…”
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Are there quantitative differences between eye-gaze and arrow cues? A meta-analytic answer to the debate and a call for qualitative differences by Chacón-Candia, Jeanette A., Román-Caballero, Rafael, Aranda-Martín, Belén, Casagrande, Maria, Lupiáñez, Juan, Marotta, Andrea

“…Gaze acts from an early age as a cue to orient attention and, thereafter, to infer our social partners' intentions, thoughts, and emotions. Variants of the…”
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Are eyes special? Electrophysiological and behavioural evidence for a dissociation between eye-gaze and arrows attentional mechanisms by Marotta, Andrea, Lupiáñez, Juan, Román-Caballero, Rafael, Narganes-Pineda, Cristina, Martín-Arévalo, Elisa

“…It has been proposed that attention triggered by eye-gaze may represent a unique attentional process, different from that triggered by non-social stimuli such…”
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Larval chaetotaxy and morphology are highly homoplastic yet phylogenetically informative in Hydrobiusini water scavenger beetles (Coleoptera: Hydrophilidae) by Archangelsky, Miguel, Martínez Román, Nicolás Rafael, Fikáček, Martin

“…Abstract Phylogenetic analyses testing the monophyly of the tribe Hydrobiusini and the relationships among its genera are performed based on a data matrix…”
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Spatial interference triggered by gaze and arrows. The role of target background on spatial interference by Román-Caballero, Rafael, Marotta, Andrea, Lupiáñez, Juan

“…Recent evidence with a spatial interference paradigm has shown that arrows and eye gaze yield opposite congruency effects, arrow target eliciting faster…”
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