Francisca Padilla

• PhD
• Professor (Associate) at University of Granada

The causes underlying traffic offender behaviour might be the tip of the iceberg that represents a persistent burden on global health and serves to detect other serious social, family, work problems. Better understanding and prevention of recidivism following a First-time driving under the influence conviction and analysis of High Risk offender dri...

Research shows that use of social network sites is associated with loneliness and this may be amplified in tertiary students by their transition from home life, especially if they struggle to integrate with peers. The buffering effects of social support may offer a solution and the online dimension may offer a suitable outlet for lonely and isolate...

Conferencia presentada en la XII Reunión Científica sobre Atención (RECA 12), durante los días 3-5 octubre 2019, en Almería, España. Todos los materiales (diapositivas, texto y audio en vivo) están disponibles en Zenodo: https://zenodo.org/record/3474084

Objective: To evaluate the effectiveness of a psychological intervention focused on stress management in women who are candidates for in vitro fertilisation (IVF). Method: Pre–post study with two groups (n = 26). The psychological intervention group (IG) received a 90-minute session that included psychoeducation, relaxation training and coping skil...

It is currently assumed that exposure to an artificial blue-enriched light enhances human alertness and task performance, but recent research has suggested that behavioral effects are influenced by the basal state of arousal. Here, we tested whether the effect of blue-enriched lighting on vigilance performance depends on participants’ arousal level...

Previous studies have shown that bilinguals perform a production task faster when the item is gender-congruent across their two languages than when it is not. The current study aimed to explore three factors that might modulate this effect: the similarity of the gender systems, the need to retrieve grammatical gender to perform the task, and the ro...

Research has shown that exposure to bright white light or blue-enriched light enhances alertness, but this effect is not consistently observed in tasks demanding high-level cognition (e.g., Sustained Attention to Response Task—SART, which measures inhibitory control). Individual differences in sensitivity to light effects might be mediated by varia...

Averaged data per subject and experimental condition. (XLS)

Questionnaire on health and sleep habits, Mood 9-point Likert Scale. (PDF)

How do interpreters manage to cope with the adverse effects of concurrent articulation while trying to comprehend the message in the source language? In Experiments 1–3, we explored three possible working memory (WM) functions that may underlie the ability to simultaneously comprehend and produce in the interpreters: WM storage capacity, coordinati...

Articulatory suppression has been shown to increase switch costs in the list paradigm (e.g., [J. Exp. Psychol.: General 130 (2001) 641, J Memory Language 48 (2003) 148]). The present dual-task study examined whether this effect generalizes to the random task cuing paradigm. Participants performed color or shape judgments according to explicit word...

El objetivo de este estudio es explorar la relación entre representación del conocimiento y aprendizaje de programación en ordenadores. Nuestra hipótesis de trabajo era que la adquisición de una habilidad como la de programar ordenadores puede ser facilitada por la adquisición de un buen modelo mental del ordenador. A un grupo de 24 estudiantes nov...

Las explicaciones ofrecidas al efecto de concreción se pueden clasificar según se centren en la facilidad para generar imágenes, en la accesibilidad a la información contextual o en diferencias en la estructura semántica de ambos tipos de palabras. La investigación presentada en este artículo está dirigida a dilucidar la importancia de variables es...

En: Cognitiva Madrid 1998, v. 10, n. 1-2; p. 239-255 Se explora la relación entre representación del conocimiento y aprendizaje de programación en ordenadores. La hipótesis de trabajo es que la adquisición de una habilidad como la deprogramar ordeandores puede ser faciltada por la adquisición de un buen modelo mental del ordenador. A un grupo de 24...

Sumario: El objetivo de este estudio fue aportar datos sobre la influencia que ejerce el ruido que genera el propio coche sobre el conductor; es decir, el ruido procedente del motor, el que proviene del rozamiento del automóvil con la calzada, el que genera en su avance al desplazar el aire que lo rodea, etc. Por todo ello se simuló en el laborator...