NECeA

Affective and Cognitive Neuroscience Research Group: Attentional Processes

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Date of inception 14 March 2000

Department: Department of Clinical Psychology and Psychobiology

Institute: Instituto de Psicoloxía (IPsiUS)

The Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience group of the University of Santiago de Compostela (USC), currently coordinated by Socorro (Coqui) Rodríguez Holguín, develops its activity at the Institute of Psychology of the USC (IPsiUS). It is composed by members from the Department of Clinical Psychology and Psychobiology, the Department of Developmental and Educational Psychology, and the Department of Social, Basic and Methodological Psychology. Our group is interested in the neural bases of cognitive and affective processes in normal and high-risk population to psychopathological conditions, with the ultimate intention of transferring knowledge to the health field. Currently, his main lines of research are oriented towards the study of the effects of alcohol binge drinking in young people, the characterisation of neurocognitive ageing in healthy populations, the cognitive vulnerability to depression, and the study of the interaction between cognitive and affective processes. Neurocognitive functioning is investigated from different levels of analysis, by recording electrical brain activity (EEG/PE), functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) and neuropsychological assessment. Occasionally, we also use other techniques, such as eye tracking or (thanks to collaboration with other laboratories) MEG.

It is also part of the Cognitive Neuroscience group within the Neuroscience section of the Health Research Institute of Santiago de Compostela (IDIS).