San Miguel Insua, Iria (Date of defense: 2008-12-19)
Novel events in the context generate an involuntary orienting response which may have a different impact on the performance of ongoing tasks depending on the specific situation in which humans are ...
García García, Manuel Antonio (Date of defense: 2009-12-21)
Our genetic background plays a role in the way we face environmental changes and adapt our behavior adequately to the requirements of everyday life. The present research focuses on the role of three ...
Corral López, María José (Date of defense: 2008-09-22)
The occurrence of auditory changes in a stable environment may cause distraction. The pattern of this effect in the present thesis depended on the salience of the feature undergoing auditory change, the ...