Lines of research

  • Psychophysiology of emotion and attention
  • Study of defensive reflexes: modulation of the cardiac defence response and the motor startle reflex.
  • Study of positive emotions through the processing of faces and names of loved ones.
  • Food craving and eating behavioural disorders
  • Instructional learning through threat and safety cues
  • Affective responses to substance-related stimuli
  • Virtual reality and new technologies applied to psychology
  • Neurofeedback, biofeedback and multimedia environments for the rehabilitation of neurological damage and other psychological disorders.
  • Study of the brain and physiological mechanisms underlying emotion in the face of potentially dangerous stimuli such as pain.