Pedro R. Montoro

Education

PhD in Psychology.

Keywords

 Perceptual grouping; Consciousness; Selective Attention; Object recognition; Visual Memory; Executive functions.

Publications

Franco-Martínez, A., Rey-Sáez, R., Adrián-Ventura, J., Amerio, P., Baciero, A., Bennis, A., ... & Vadillo, M. A. (2026). Replicating the unconscious working memory effect: a multisite Registered Report. Neuroscience of Consciousness, 2026(1), niaf046.

Jimenez, M., Andrade, C., Hinojosa, J. A., Montoro, P. R., & Prieto, A. New approaches to subliminal perception: Exploring the unconscious perception of masked primes with Bayesian regression models and General Recognition Theory (GRT). Available at SSRN 5237390.

Jimenez, M., Prieto, A., Montoro, P. R., Hinojosa, J. A., & Kiefer, M. (2025). New methods, old questions: advancing the study of unconscious perception. Frontiers in Psychology, 16, 1626223.

Carriedo, N., Rodríguez-Villagra, O. A., Moriano, J. A., Montoro, P. R., & Iglesias-Sarmiento, V. (2025). Age-related change in inhibitory processes when controlling working memory capacity and processing speed: A confirmatory factor analysis. PLoS One, 20(1), e0316347.

Prieto, A., Montoro, P. R., Jimenez, M., & Hinojosa, J. A. (2025). In search of an integrative method to study unconscious processing: an application of Bayesian and general recognition theory models to the processing of hierarchical patterns in the absence of awareness. Journal of cognition, 8(1), 6.

Vera, C. M., Montoro, P. R., Orgaz, C., & Contreras, M. J. (2025). Beyond mediation: the direct effect of expectations on the illusion of control. Cognitive Processing, 1-10.

Jiménez M, Prieto A, Hinojosa JA, Montoro PR. (2025). Consciousness under the spotlight: the problem of measuring subjective experience. WIREs Cognitive Science, 14, e1697.

Marmolejo-Ramos F, Marrone R, Korolkiewicz, Gabriel F, Siemens G, Joksimovic S,…Hinojosa JA, … Tejada J. (38 de 43 autores). (2025). Factors influencing trust in algorithmic decision-making: an indirect scenario-based experiment. Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence, 7, 1465605.

Prieto A, Montoro PR, Jiménez M, Hinojosa JA. (2025). In Search of an Integrative Method to Study Unconscious Processing: An Application of Bayesian and General Recognition Theory Models to the Processing of Hierarchical Patterns in the Absence of Awareness. Journal of Cognition, 8, 6.

Montoro PR, Villalba-García C, Albert J, Prieto A, Hinojosa JA. (2025). Neural correlates of the competition between extrinsic and intrinsic grouping principles in vision: an ERP study. Neuropsychologia, 208, 109081.

Hinojosa, J. A., Guasch, M., Montoro, P. R., Albert, J., Fraga, I., & Ferré, P. (2024). The bright side of words: Norms for 9000 Spanish words in seven discrete positive emotions. Behavior Research Methods, 56(5), 4909-4929.

Jimenez, M., Prieto, A., Hinojosa, J. A., & Montoro, P. R. (2024). Consciousness under the spotlight: the problem of measuring subjective experience. PsyArXiv.

González-Espinar, J., Ortells, J. J., Sánchez-García, L., Montoro, P. R., & Hutchison, K. (2023). Exposure to natural environments consistently improves visuospatial working memory performance. Journal of Environmental Psychology, 91, 102138.

Rodán, A., Romero, M., Casadevante, C., Santacreu, J., Montoro, P. R., & Contreras, M. J. (2023). Getting it right takes time: response time and performance in secondary school students. The Journal of General Psychology, 1-17.

Jimenez, M., Prieto, A., Gomez, P., Hinojosa, J. A., & Montoro, P. R. (2023). Masked priming under the Bayesian microscope: Exploring the integration of local elements into global shape through Bayesian model comparison. Consciousness and Cognition, 115, 103568.

Mayas, J., Prieto, A., & Montoro, P. R. (2023). Memory and metamemory in everyday settings: Assessing recall, recognition, and naming using car brand logos. Applied Cognitive Psychology,  1–14.

Hinojosa, J. A., Guasch, M., Montoro, P. R., Albert, J., Fraga, I., & Ferré, P. (2023). The bright side of words: Norms for 9000 Spanish words in seven discrete positive emotions. Behavior Research Methods, 1-21.

Coles, N. A., March, D. S., Marmolejo-Ramos, F., Larsen, J. T., Arinze, N. C., Ndukaihe, I. L., ... & Liuzza, M. T. (2022). A multi-lab test of the facial feedback hypothesis by the Many Smiles Collaboration. Nature human behaviour, 6(12), 1731-1742.

Mediano, M., Montoro, P. R., Contreras, M. J., & Mayas, J. (2022). Assessment of a Spanish version of the Mannheim Dream questionnaire (MADRE) in a young adult Spanish sample. International Journal of Dream Research, 184-197.

Montoro, P. R., & Ruiz, M. (2022). Incidental visual memory and metamemory for a famous monument. Attention, Perception, & Psychophysics, 84(3), 771-780.

Villalba-García, C., Jimenez, M., Luna, D., Hinojosa, J. A., & Montoro, P. R. (2021). Competition between perceptual grouping cues in an indirect objective task. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 74(10), 1724-1736.

Jimenez, M., Poch, C., Villalba-García, C., Sabater, L., Hinojosa, J. A., Montoro, P. R., & Koivisto, M. (2021). The level of processing modulates visual awareness: evidence from behavioral and electrophysiological measures. Journal of cognitive neuroscience, 33(7), 1295-1310.

Carriedo, N., Corral, A., Montoro, P. R., & Herrero, L. (2020). A developmental study of the bat/ball problem of CRT: How to override the bias and its relation to executive functioning. British Journal of Psychology, 111(2), 335-356.

Contreras, M. J., Meneghetti, C., Uttal, D. H., Fernández-Méndez, L. M., Rodán, A., & Montoro, P. R. (2020). Monitoring the own spatial thinking in second grade of primary education in a Spanish school: Preliminary study analyzing gender differences. Education Sciences, 10(9), 237.

Jimenez, M., Villalba-García, C., Luna, D., Hinojosa, J. A., & Montoro, P. R. (2019). The nature of visual awareness at stimulus energy and feature levels: A backward masking study. Attention, Perception, & Psychophysics, 81, 1926-1943.

Rodán, A., Gimeno, P., Elosúa, M. R., Montoro, P. R., & Contreras, M. J. (2019). Boys and girls gain in spatial, but not in mathematical ability after mental rotation training in primary education. Learning and Individual Differences, 70, 1-11.