Investigación (Research)

Líneas de investigación (Research interests)

Proyectos de investigación subvencionados (Research projects)

Publicaciones más importantes (Representative publications)

Líneas de Investigación (Research Interests)

Mi interés principal es el estudio de los procesos facilitatorios e inhibitorios en la atención visual, tanto en personas normales como pacientes que presentan diversas patologías neurológicas. Por ejemplo, actualmente estoy desarrollando programas de investigación acerca de los déficit atencionales que presentan pacientes con demencias del tipo Alzheimer, pacientes con neglect visual, y pacientes esquizofrénicos.

My main research interests involve the study of facilitatory and inhibitory processing in visual attention with both normals and neurological patients. For instance, currently I'm conducting some research concerning inhibitory deficits in dementia of the Alzheimer's type, visual neglect, and schizophrenia.

Proyectos de Investigación (Research Projects)

TÍTULO: Mecanismos inhibitorios de la atención selectiva en sujetos normales y pacientes neurológicos.
ORGANISMO: Ministerio de Educación y Cultura (D.G.E.S.I.C.). Proyecto PM97-0002.
INVESTIGADOR RESPONSABLE: Dr. Luis J. Fuentes.

TÍTULO: Estudio de los procesos inhibitorios en la esquizofrenia.
ORGANISMO: Ministerio de Educación y Cultura. Programa de Acciones integradas y INSERM (Francia)
INVESTIGADOR RESPONSABLE: Dr. Luis J. Fuentes. Dra. Muriel Boucart.

TÍTULO: Mechanisms of selective attention in adulthood and in Alzheimer's disease.
ORGANISMO: The University of Minnesota (USA) and Universidad de Almería.
INVESTIGADORES RESPONSABLES: Dr. Luis J. Fuentes, Dr. Bruce Overmier, y Dra. Linda K. Langley.

TÍTULO: Inhibitory mechanisms and memory activation in adulthood.
ORGANISMO: The University of North Dakota (USA) and University of Almería.
INVESTIGADORES RESPONSABLES: Dra. Linda K. Langley. Dr. Luis J. Fuentes. Prf. Dolores Alvarez.

TÍTULO: Inhibitory mechanisms in visual attention.
ORGANISMO: The University of Birmingham (U.K.). City College Affiliated Institution of the University of Sheffield (Greece). University of Almería.
INVESTIGADORES RESPONSABLES: Dr. Glyn W. Humphreys. Dra. Ana B. Vivas:. Dr. Luis J. Fuentes.

TÍTULO: Differential outcomes effects in humans.
ORGANISMO: The University of Minnesota (USA) and University of Almería
INVESTIGADORES RESPONSABLES: Dr. Bruce Overmier; Dra. Angeles F. Estévez; Dra. Pilar Flores Cubos; Dr. Luis Fuentes

TÍTULO: Atención ejecutiva y procesamiento de características estimulares en los déficit atencionales en envejecimiento y demencias.
ORGANISMO: Ministerio de Ciencia y Tecnología. Proyecto: BSO2003-04594
INVESTIGADORA RESPONSABLE: Dra. Encarna Carmona Samper

TÍTULO: Efecto de consecuencias diferenciales en niños y personas con Síndrome de Down: Una herramienta útil para mejorar el aprendizaje discriminativo y la memoria .
ORGANISMO: Ministerio de Ciencia y Tecnología. Proyecto: BSO2003-00930
INVESTIGADORA RESPONSABLE: Dra. Mª Ángeles Fernández Estévez

Publicaciones internacionales recientes (Recent international publications)

Ø Fuentes, L.J. (2004). Inhibitory processing in the attentional networks. In M. I. Posner (Ed.), Cognitive neuroscience of attention, (pp. 45-55). New York: Guilford Press.

Ø Colmenero, J.M., Catena, A., Fuentes, L.J., & Ramos, M.M. (2004). Mechanisms of visuo-spatial orienting in deafness. The European Journal of Cognitive Psychology.

Ø Hommel, B., Alonso, D., & Fuentes, L.J. (2003). Acquisition and generalization of action effects. Visual Cognition, 10, 965-986.

Ø Vivas, A.B., Humphreys, G.W., & Fuentes,L.J. (2003). Inhibitory processing following damage to the parietal lobe. Neuropsychologia, 41, 1531-1540.

Ø González, C., Fuentes, L.J.,& Carranza, J.A. (2003). Involvement of attentional mechanisms in children’ self-regulation abilities. Cognition, Brain, Behavior, 7, 119-132.

Ø Estévez, A.F., Overmier, J.B., & Fuentes, L.J. (2003). Differential outcomes effect in children: Demonstration and mechanisms. Learning and Motivation, 34, 148-167.

Ø Estévez A.F., & Fuentes, L.J. (2003). Differential outcomes effects in four-year-old children. Psicológica, 24, 159-167.

Ø Estévez, A.F., Fuentes, L.J., Overmier, J.B., & González, C. (2003). Differential outcomes effect in children and adults with Down syndrome. American Journal on Mental Retardation, 108, 108-116.

Ø Catena, A., Fuentes, L.J., & Tudela, P. (2002). Priming and interference effects can be dissociated in the Stroop task: New evidence in favor of the automaticity of word recognition. Psychonomic Bulletin and Review, 9, 113-118.

Ø Langley, L.K., Fuentes, L.J., Overmier, J.B., Bastin de Jong, C., & Pod'Homme, M.M. (2001). Attention to semantic and spatial information in aging and Alzheimer's disease. Psicológica, 22, 293-323.

Ø Langley, L.K., Fuentes, L.J., Hochhalter, A.K., Brandt, J., & Overmier, J.B. (2001). Inhibition of return in aging and Alzheimer's disease: Performance as a function of task demands and stimulus timing. Journal of Clinical and Experimental Neuropsychology, 23, 431-446.

Ø Vivas, A.B., & Fuentes, L.J. (2001). Stroop interference is affected in inhibition of return. Psychonomic Bulletin and Review, 8, 315-323.

Ø Estévez, A.F., Fuentes, L.J., Marí-Beffa, P., González, C., & Alvarez, D. (2001). The differential outcome effect as an useful tool to improve conditional discrimination learning in children. Learning and Motivation, 32, 48-64.

Ø Fuentes, L.J. (2001). A cognitive neuroscience approach to attentional deficits in schizophrenia. International Psychiatry Today, December, 32, 10-12.

Ø Fuentes, L.J. (2001). A cognitive neuroscience framework to study the attentional deficits associated with schizophrenia. In F. Columbus (Ed.), Advances in psychology research 3 (pp.1-23). New York: Nova Science Publishers. 

Ø González, C., Fuentes, L.J., Carranza, J.A., & Estévez, A.F. (2001). Temperament and attention in the self-regulation of seven-year-old children. Personality and Individual Differences, 30, 931-946.

Ø Fuentes, L.J., & Vivas, A.B. (2000). The global precedence effect is not affected in inhibition of return. The European Journal of Cognitive Psychology, 12, 472-488.

Ø Marí-Beffa, P., Fuentes, L.J., Catena, A., & Houghton, G. (2000). Semantic priming in the prime task effect: Evidence of automatic semantic processing of distractors. Memory and Cognition, 28, 635-647.

Ø Marí-Beffa, P., Houghton, G., Estévez, A.F., & Fuentes, L.J. (2000). Word-based grouping affects the prime task effect on semantic priming. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 26, 469-479.

Ø Fuentes, L.J. (2000). Dissociating components in conscious experience. European Psychologist, 5, 13-15.

Ø Fuentes, L.J., Boucart, M., Vivas, A.B., Alvarez, R., & Zimmerman, M.A. (2000). Inhibitory tagging in inhibition of return is affected in schizophrenia: Evidence from the Stroop task. Neuropsychology, 14, 134-140.

Ø Fuentes, L.J., Vivas, A.B., & Humphreys, G.W. (1999). Inhibitory tagging of stimulus properties in inhibition of return: Effects on semantic priming and flanker interference. The Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Experimental Psychology, 52, 149-164.

Ø Fuentes, L.J., Vivas, A.B., Humpreys, G.W. (1999). Inhibitory mechanisms of attentional networks: Spatial and semantic inhibitory processing. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 25, 1114-1126.

Ø Fuentes, L.J., & Santiago, E. (1999). Spatial and semantic inhibitory processing in schizophrenia. Neuropsychology, 13, 259-270.

Ø Fuentes, L.J., Boucart, M., Alvarez, R., Vivas, A.B., & Zimmerman, M.A. (1999). Inhibitory processing in visuospatial attention in healthy adults and schizophrenic patients. Schizophrenia Research, 40, 75-80.