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 ...
Finke, Mareike (Date of defense: 2013-01-18)
The brain's ability to represent, maintain and update contextual (task-set) information enables us to alternate successfully between different tasks. Task-set reconfiguration is required when task demands ...
Domínguez Borràs, Judith (Date of defense: 2008-03-14)
ENGLISH: SUMMARY<br/><br/>The present thesis encloses four studies that sought to asses the neural correlates, timing and modulatory effects of a negative emotional context on the processing of ...