Alicia Leiva
PhD Student
University of the Balearic Islands
Department of Psychology
Neuropsychology and Cognition Group (IUNICS)
BRIEF CV
2011 - present
PhD student at University of the Balearic Islands.
2010 - 2011
MSc in Evolution and human cognition. University of the Balearic Islands.
2005 - 2010
Degree in Psychology (extraordinary award). University of the Balearic Islands.
Education
Languages
Spanish
Catalan
English
Participation in research proyects
2011 - present
FPU MICINN grant. Project: “Una investigación empírica de la distracción por novedad auditiva: hacia un nuevo modelo teórico”. Department of Psychology, University of the Balearic Islands.
Main Researcher: Fabrice Parmentier.
2010 - 2011
Research assistant. Project: “Una investigación empírica de la distracción por novedad auditiva: hacia un nuevo modelo teórico”. Department of Psychology, University of the Balearic Islands.
Main Researcher: Fabrice Parmentier.
2009 - 2010
Grant holder (MICINN). Project: “Flexibilidad cognitiva en el envejecimiento normal: modelo computacional sobre la función del córtex prefrontal”. Department of Psychology, University of the Balearic Islands.
Main Researcher: Francisco Barceló.
2008-2009
Grant holder (Tipo A UIB). Project: “Flexibilidad cognitiva en el envejecimiento normal: modelo computacional sobre la función del córtex prefrontal”. Department of Psychology, University of the Balearic Islands.
Main Researcher: Francisco Barceló.
Research assistant. Project: “Diseño de sistemas de apoyo técnico y ergonómico-psicológico para Computer mediated cooperative virtual teams”. Department of Psychology, University of the Balearic Islands.
Main Researcher: Alexandre García Mas.
Research assistant. Project: “Creación de una red temática sobre motivación, cooperación, compromiso o abandono en el deporte infantil y juvenil”. Department of Psychology, University of the Balearic Islands.
Main Researcher: Alexandre García Mas.
2007 - 2008
Research assistant. Project: “Motivación, compromiso y bienestar en la carrera deportiva”. Department of Psychology, University of the Balearic Islands.
Main Researcher: Alexandre García Mas.
Research assistant. Project: “Elaboración y validación de los cuestionarios de preidentificación del alumnado con altas capacidades para maestros (qudac-m) y famílias (qudac-f) en la comunidad de las islas Baleares”. Department of Psychology, University of the Balearic Islands.Main Researcher: Rosa Isabel Rodríguez Rodríguez.
Grants
2011 - present
PhD grant (FPU MICINN).
2009 - 2010
Research assistant grant (MEC).
2008 - 2009
Research assistant grant (Tipo A UIB).
Conference participation
2013
Poster author. 25th Annual Convention, Association for Psychological Science (APS). Washington, 2013.
Poster author. Reunión científica sobre atención y sus trastornos (RECA IX). Palma de Mallorca, 2013.
Poster author. International Conference Aging and Cognition. Dortmund, 2013.
2012
Poster author. ERNI-HSF Science Meeting, Orienting of attention: Neural implementation, underlying mechanisms and clinical implications. Tübingen, 2012.
Attendance. Primeras jornadas de envejecimiento activo: “Vejez, divino tesoro”. Palma de Mallorca, 2012.
Poster author. Experimental Psychology Society, Bristol meeting. Bristol, 2012.
2011
Member of the local commitee, poster author and poster co-author. XI International Conference on Cognitive Neuroscience. Palma de Mallorca, 2011.
Leiva, A and Parmentier, F. The behavioral impact of auditory and visual oddball distracters in a visual and auditory categorization tasks. Front. Hum. Neurosci. Conference Abstract: XI International Conference on Cognitive Neuroscience (ICON XI).
Attendance. Pre-ICON Satellite Symposium Cognitive aging: Electrophysiological methods and training interventions. Palma de Mallorca, 2011.
Attendance. Conferencia sobre daño cerebral sobrevenido. Palma de Mallorca, 2011.
Poster author. Cuarto congreso ibérico de Percepción. Palma de Mallorca, 2011.
Poster author/co-author. Reunión científica sobre atención y sus trastornos (RECA VIII). Sevilla, 2011.
Attendance. IV reunión del Consorcio de Neuropsicología clínica. Palma de Mallorca, 2011.
2010
Conference talk. XII Congreso Nacional de Psicología del deporte. Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, 2010.
2008
Attendance. XXII Jornada Nacional Externa de la asociación española de terapia Gestalt. Palma de Mallorca, 2008.
Attendance. XV Jornadas de Psicología. Palma de Mallorca, 2008.
2007
Attendance. XIV Jornadas de Psicología. Palma de Mallorca, 2007.
Attendance. “Autoconeixement, emocions i diàleg al segle XXI”. Palma de Mallorca, 2007.
2006
Attendance. XIII Jornadas de Psicología. Palma de Mallorca, 2006.
Publications
Leiva, A., Andrés, P., & Parmentier, F. B. R. (in press). When aging does not increase distraction: Evidence from pure auditory and visual oddball tasks. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance.
Leiva, A., Parmentier, F. B. R., Elchlepp, H., & Verbruggen, F. (2015). Reorienting the mind: The impact of novel sounds on Go/No-Go performance. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 41(5), 1197-1202. http://dx.doi.org/10.1037/xhp0000111
Leiva, A., Parmentier, F. B. R., & Andrés, P. (2015). Aging increases distraction by auditory oddballs in visual, but not auditory tasks. Psychological Research, 79(3), 401-410. DOI 10.1007/s00426-014-0573-5
Leiva, A., Parmentier, F. B. R., & Andrés, P. (2015). Distraction by deviance: Comparing the effects of auditory and visual deviant stimuli on auditory and visual target processing. Experimental Psychology, 62(1), 2015, 54-65.
Parmentier, F., Ljungberg, J., Leiva, A., & Vega, N. (2012). The informational constraints of behavioural distraction by auditory novelty: comparing the roles of event and temporal information. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory & Cognition. 38(5):1461-8. DOI:10.1037/a0028149
García-Mas, A., Palou, P., Smith, R. E., Ponseti, X., Almeida, P., Lameiras, J., Jiménez, R. y Leiva, A. (2011). Ansiedad competitiva y clima motivacional en jóvenes futbolistas de competición, en relación con las habilidades y el rendimiento percibido por sus entrenadores. Revista de Psicología del Deporte, 20(1), 123-131.
Current research interests
Attention.
Distraction.
Aging.