Grupo de investigación

Neurociencia Cognitiva

Sobre mí

I obtained my BA in Psychology at the University of Granada in 2003. I joined the Experimental Psychology and Neuroscience PhD program at the University of Granada thanks to a PhD scholarship from the Spanish Ministry of Education and Science. I graduated with a Cum Laude in 2008 under the supervision of Dr. Juan Lupianez. During my PhD, I did several research stays at Oxford University (with Dr. Charles Spence, 5 months) and Dalhousie University (with Dr. Raymond Klein, 1 year). In 2008, I obtained a research contract from the Neuropôle de Recherche Francilien to work in an INSERM lab in Paris in collaboration with Dr. Paolo Bartolomeo. In 2009 I was awarded a Marie Curie postdoctoral fellowship (7th Framework Program of the European Union) to pursuit my research at the Salpêtrière Hospital in Paris. In 2012 I returned to Granada with a Ramon and Cajal research fellowship. My main research topic is the Cognitive Neuroscience of attention and conscious perception. I am interested in understanding the neural basis of different forms of attention and how they relate to our conscious experience.

Líneas de investigación

Atención y Consciencia

Resultados destacables

My main contributions to the literature can be summarised as follows: 1) we have demonstrated that endogenous and exogenous attention consist of two independent processes, implemented in different nodes of the fronto-parietal network (see Chica et al., Behavioural Brain Research, 2013); 2) we have demonstrated that some attentional systems can be dissociated from conscious perception, while some other interact with it. We have explored the neural bases of these dissociations and interactions (see Martín-Signes et al., Cerebral Cortex, 2019; Chica et al., Scientific Reports, 2016). 3) We have contributed to the understanding of the susceptibility to neuromodulation in the healthy brain, by exploring white matter individual variability (Martín-Signes et al., Cortex, 2021, Martín-Signes et al., Cerebral Cortex, 2017).

Vocación

Llegué porque me apasionaba el mundo de la investigación, el diseño de experimentos y análisis de resultados. Sigo aquí porque es una parte de mi trabajo que me hace disfrutar, aprender y crear.

Deseo científico

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