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Introduction
My research focuses on visual perception and action in sport. In particular, how expert athletes make use of optical information for anticipation and online guidance of movement.
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September 2021 - present
January 2016 - March 2021
January 2014 - January 2016
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January 2013 - July 2013
September 2009 - November 2010
September 2001 - June 2006
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Publications (52)
This study analyses physical education teachers' use and perceptions of the spectrum of teaching styles according to the characteristics of their schools. The study sample comprised 350 (35.1% women and 64.9% men) Spanish physical education teachers. The questionnaire used was based on the teachers' use of and beliefs about teaching styles. The mai...
This study aimed to promote a coherent pedagogical framework for integrating mobile exergames into physical education (PE) as a strategy to reduce sedentary behavior. The intervention was grounded in the game-based learning methodology, assessing the impact of exergame practice on the physical and mental well-being of prospective PE teachers. The B...
The main aims of the present research were 1) to characterise the inter-subject and intra-subject timing of the preparatory movements of competitive swimmers during relay starts and 2) to relate the preparatory movements with the relay start outcome. Nine international youth swimmers performed 10 relay freestyle starts (one-step technique) filmed a...
El objetivo de este estudio fue conocer cómo influyen los juegos en red en el desarrollo de la imagen corporal en adolescentes. Se utilizó para ello una metodología de estudio de caso múltiple, analizando los significados que tres jóvenes con distinto origen cultural asignan a sus experiencias colectivas en el uso de los videojuegos en línea con un...
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Stress is characterized as a challenging occurrence that triggers a physiological and/or behavioral allostatic response, alongside the demands typically encountered throughout the natural course of life. A sustained state of stress gives rise to secondary effects, including insomnia and neck pain. Also, the risk of musculoskeletal prob...
The aim of this study was 1) to define a new index to describe running coordination, named % of coordination, and 2) to examine whether it could represent an order parameter in relation to running velocity. Twelve international middle-distance athletes (six males and six females) performed three trials at easy, 5000 m pace and sprint velocities whi...
Attackers are supposed to take advantage of producing deceptive actions in competitive ball sports, particularly in penalty situations. We conducted a scoping review of the experimental literature to scrutinize whether penalty takers do indeed benefit from using deceptive actions in penalty situations, especially by increasing the likelihood to sco...
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The purpose of this study was to delve more deeply into the medium and long-term relationship between mRNA-based vaccines and changes in menstrual pain, cycle length, and amount of bleeding in Spanish women. A total of 746 women (63% between 18–30 and 37% between 31–45 years old) participated in the study. Sixty-five per cent of the...
Every parasport is currently encouraged to consider evidence-based classification to develop their respective classification system. Therefore, the aims of this study were to: (1) assess the relationship between trunk function and anaerobic power determining proficiency in wheelchair basketball, and (2) define “natural classes” in wheelchair basket...
The aim of the current experiment was to examine the spatiotemporal control of expert tennis players while executing first service returns within a representative experimental setting. We recruited and tested 12 male expert tennis players in hard courts. A comprehensive analysis of the timing (eleven temporal variables analysed at 300 Hz) and perfo...
El objetivo fue analizar el nivel de penetración de técnicas de desarrollo de la inteligencia emocional (IE) y en particular del mindfulness, así como las posibles dificultades de la práctica en la clase de educación física (EF) percibidas por los docentes. Se elaboró un cuestionario tipo Likert con 20 ítems con cuatro dimensiones referidos a los d...
Resumen : En la actualidad están surgiendo nuevos métodos de enseñanza que permitan a los estudiantes disponer de mayor autonomía para la construcción de su propio aprendizaje. En este estudio se analiza la influencia de la flipped classroom en las estrategias de aprendizaje en el contexto universitario. Participaron un total de 96 estudiantes univ...
The purpose of this paper is to explain learning in sports and physical education (PE) from the perspective of enactive and ecological psychology. The learning process is first presented from the enactive perspective, and some relevant notions such as sense-making and sensorimotor schemes are developed. Then, natural learning environments are descr...
The main purpose of this study was to analyze retrospectively the memories of a group of adults with low skills and the relationships between their memories and their physical education teachers during their school time. Ten adults (7 women and three men) participated in this study, aged between 25 and 56 years that declared to be low skilled durin...
This study analyses the use of a flipped classroom to develop the ‘learning to learn’ competence in the university context. This research was conducted on a subject about Applied Teaching Methodology included in the Physical Activity and Sports Science degree at the Polytechnic University of Madrid (Spain). A total of 110 university students (mean...
Resumen: La clase invertida se está convirtiendo en un método de enseñanza muy popular en el entorno educativo. Sin embargo, a día de hoy no existen suficientes investigaciones científicas que permitan avalar la idoneidad de la clase invertida como método en todas las áreas y niveles educativos. El objetivo de esta investigación es analizar el rend...
The aim of this study was to know the reasons why clients of a private sports and fitness centre located on a school campus give up the practice of physical activity according to gender. The sample size was 2251 people (46.9% men, and 53.1% women). The reasons for dropping out were registered by transcribing the written or verbal words transmitted...
Objectives: The present article aims to (i) critically review and classify the studies on the tennis serve return by the degree of representativeness of the experimental task design, (ii) assess the quality of the studies classified with a high degree of representativeness, (iii) analyze to what extent expert tennis players demonstrate anticipa- to...
This study addressed the question whether coaches better allow athletes to self-control their decisions when under pressure or whether to impose a decision upon them. To this end, an experiment was conducted that manipulated the soccer kickers’ degree of control in decision-making. Two groups of elite under-19 soccer players (n = 18) took penalty k...
Wheelchair basketball is an adaptive Paralympic sport and wheelchair basketball players are under classification in sport. Coaches are looking for useful assessment tools (field-based tests) to evaluate players’ anaerobic performance (anaerobic capacity). The aim of this study was to assess the validity of field-based tests for anaerobic performanc...
Una de las causas de muerte significativa en el mundo actual es el ahogamiento por sumersión, la medida preventiva más eficaz es la figura del socorrista acuático, destacando tres funciones principales: prevención, vigilancia e intervención. Un aspecto importante de la vigilancia es el escaneo, siendo escasos los estudios científicos en el método d...
There is a wide body of research that has identified the strong links between health behaviors and academic achievement. The media and official agencies strive to convey to schoolchildren and the public the need to show healthy lifestyles. However, it is striking that sleep habits have been considered in few occasions within healthy behaviors to be...
One of the least commented and hidden aspect in Physical Education and Sport (PE&S)is the presence of low skilled students who are not able to learn satisfactorily the skills of their programs. The study of motor clumsiness has been confined to the therapeutic field. Thus, physical education teachers have accepted that problems of low motor compete...
The goalkeeper’s difficulty in the soccer penalty kick originates from the extreme spatiotemporal constraints of the situation. The present review claims that the current understanding is biased toward attributing a goalkeeper’s success in saving a penalty kick to perceptual–cognitive skill. To investigate the goalkeeper’s skill, researchers have o...
The classical cognitive concept of anticipation and timing (for example, reaction time) somewhat limits the study of sports actions under spatio-temporal pressure. The presence, duration and evolution of the information of the opponents, spatio-temporal pressure, the evolution of the athlete’s response movements or the degree of representativeness...
El objetivo de este estudio fue el desarrollo y evaluación métrica del Test Motor SportComp, instrumento diseñado
para ayudar a los profesores de educación física en la evaluación de la coordinación motriz global de sus
alumnos de Educación Secundaria. En la actualidad no existen tests que evalúen la coordinación motriz de forma
válida y fiable y q...
It is widely accepted that the sources of information used to guide interceptive actions depend on conflicting spatiotemporal task demands. However, there is a paucity of evidence that shows how information pick-up during interceptive actions is adapted to such conflicting constraints. The present study therefore examined the effects of systematic...
Resumen. En el presente estudio se analizaron las relaciones existentes entre la coordinación motriz global y el rendimiento escolar en un grupo de
adolescentes de educación secundaria obligatoria. Para ello se aplicó a 480 estudiantes (171 mujeres y 309 varones), con una edad media de 13.33 años
(DE: 1.41), un test de coordinación motriz y se obtu...
The aim of this study was to analyse the relationships between motor co-ordination and academic achievement in a group of Spanish Secondary Education adolescents. For this purpose, a motor coordination test was applied to 480 students (171 girls and 309 boys) with an average age of 13.33 years (SD: 1.41). The academic achievement consisted in the a...
En el presente estudio se analizó la autopercepción de competencia decisional y la inteligencia contextual de jugadores de fútbol de diferente nivel de pericia. Además, se exploraron las relaciones existentes entre las autopercepciones de competencia para decidir y de inteligencia contextual en jugadores de fútbol, para lo cual participaron volunta...
Se realizó un análisis cronométrico del split-step y del tiempo de respuesta en restadores experimentados para corroborar de forma cuantitativa las observaciones cualitativas que notificó Nick Saviano hace algunos años. También, se estudió el vínculo existente entre las diferentes fases del split-step con la reacción de los jugadores. Para ello, se...
Some years ago, Nick Saviano notified qualitative observations. In this study we have made a chronometric analysis of the split -step and the response times of experienced returners to prove qualitative observations in a quantitative way. The research included the relationship between the different phases of the split-step and the reaction of the p...
The aim of the study was to assess physical performance during competition in elite youth rugby players with respect to their specific position on the field (backs vs. forwards). Twenty two elite male under-19 rugby union players voluntary participated in the study (13 forwards and 9 backs). Players' activity profiles were assessed using Global Pos...
This study examines the relationships between multiple intelligences, academic achievement and motor
performance in a group of secondary school children. Four hundred and eighty schoolchildren participated in this study (171 female and 309 male) with an average age of 13.33 years (SD: 1.41). The Revised self-efficacy Inventory for Multiple Intellig...
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El presente estudio tuvo como objetivo analizar las intenciones de ser activos en el futuro de un grupo de escolares adolescentes así como qué variables podrían predecir mejor esta. Participaron 480 escolares de 11 a 16 años (M= 13.33 años; DT= 1.41) de los cuales 309 fueron varones y 171 mujeres de centros de la Comunidad de Madrid y Casti...
A common though among soccer professionals is that penalties are a lottery, despite the existence of numerous empirical works that prove the opposite. An ample review about soccer penalty kick studies is presented in the current paper. The document is structured in three main sections: how to improve goalkeeper’s success probability, how to improve...
Background: It is known that competence to make decisions is a fundamental aspect of sport competition.
Objective: This study has analyzed the decision profile of a sample of Spanish football players of different levels of expertise. Methods: 690 Spanish football players of national and international level completed the decision making
questionnair...
Coaches consider that game intelligence is one of the main elements that can predict success in competition. The objective of this study was to analyze the perceptions that soccer players of different level of expertise had about their intelligence in the field. The Contextual Intelligence Questionnaire (ICD) was applied to a sample of spanish socc...
In this paper three alternative theoretical streams to cognitivism, with particular emphasis on enactivism are discussed in order to explain the sport skill acquisition process and human control of movement. In the first part, main concepts of ecological psychology are outlined, like movement regulation, direct perception or mutual interdependence...
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Several recent studies have shown that the performance of a skill that involves acting on a goal object can influence one’s judgment of the size of that object. The present study investigated this effect in an aviation context. Novice pilots were asked to perform a series of visual approach and landing manoeuvres in a flight simulator. After each l...
En el presente artículo se discuten tres corrientes teóricas alternativas al cognitivismo, para explicar el desarrollo hacia la pericia en el ámbito del aprendizaje y del control motor en deporte, haciendo especial énfasis en el enactivismo. En la primera parte se tratan las principales nociones de la psicología ecológica, como la regulación del mo...
Il y a quelques années, Nick Saviano a publié des observations qualitatives. Dans ce travail nous avons réalisé une analyse chronométrique du saut d’allégement et du temps de réaction de relanceurs expérimentés afin d’étayer ses observations qualitatives par des données quantitatives. Il s’est également intéressé à la relation entre les différentes...
This study examines the relationships between multiple intelligences, academic achievement and motor performance in a group of secondary school children. Four hundred and eighty schoolchildren participated in this study (171 female and 309 male) with an average age of 13.33 years (SD: 1.41). The Revised self-efficacy Inventory for Multiple Intellig...
This study investigated the contribution of situation information about a player’s preference to kick to either side of the goal on the goalkeeper’s performance in a soccer penalty kick. Nine goalkeepers were tested under different situational information conditions: a non-probability, an equal-probability (i.e., 50% of the kicks to either side of...
En este estudio se exploró y analizó el comportamiento visual de un grupo de porteros expertos de fútbol sala con el objetivo de comprobar cómo el tipo de respuesta motriz solicitada influía en su comportamiento visual. Participaron 4 porteros a los que se les presentó un total de 48 clips de vídeo en una pantalla a tamaño real, bajo dos condicione...
manual moderno Fotocopiar sin autorización es un delito. Resumen: El propósito de este estudio fue analizar y comparar el comportamiento visual de taekwondistas de diferente nivel de pericia (17 expertos, 7 experimentados y 9 novatos) ante una situación de combate simulada en laboratorio. Se empleó el pupilómetro Mobile Eye ASL para registrar la mi...
