Research
Main publications
Ciria, L. F., Román-Caballero, R., Vadillo, M. A., Holgado, D., Luque-Casado, D., Perakakis, P. & Sanabria, D. (2023). An umbrella review of randomized control trials questions the cognitive benefits of physical exercise. Nature Human Behaviour, 1-14.
Román-Caballero, R., Sanabria, D. & Ciria, L. F. (2023). Let’s go beyond “the effect of”: reappraising the impact of ordinary activities on cognition. Psicologica, 44, e15144 (2023)
Alameda, C., Sanabria, D. & Ciria, L. F. (2022). The brain in flow: a systematic review on the neural basis of the flow state. Cortex, 154, 348-364.
Chen, B., Ciria, L. F., Hu, C., & Ivanov, P. C. (2022). Ensemble of coupling forms and networks among brain rhythms as function of states and cognition. Communications biology, 5(1), 1-18.
Ciria, L. F., Watson, P., Vadillo, M. A., & Luque, D. (2021). Is the habit system altered in individuals with obesity? A systematic review. Neuroscience and Biobehavioral Reviews, 128, 621-632.
Ciria, L. F., Suarez-Pinilla, M., Williams, A. G., Jagannathan, S. R., Sanabria, D., & Bekinschtein, T. A. (2021). Different underlying mechanisms for high and low arousal in probabilistic learning in humans. Cortex, 143, 180-194.
Ciria, L. F., Luque‐Casado, A., Sanabria, D., Holgado, D., Ivanov, P. C., & Perakakis, P. (2019). Oscillatory brain activity during acute exercise: Tonic and transient neural response to an oddball task. Psychophysiology, e13326.
Ciria, L. F., Perakakis, P., Luque-Casado, A., & Sanabria, D. (2018). Physical exercise increases overall brain oscillatory activity but does not influence inhibitory control in young adults. Neuroimage, 181, 203-210.
Ciria, L. F., Muñoz, M. A., Gea, J., Peña, N., Miranda, J. G. V., Montoya, P., & Vila, J. (2017). Head movement measurement: An alternative method for posturography studies. Gait & posture, 52, 100-106.
Ciria, L. F., Perakakis, P., Luque-Casado, A., Morato, C., & Sanabria, D. (2017). The relationship between sustained attention and aerobic fitness in a group of young adults. PeerJ, 5, e3831.
Luque-Casado, A., Perakakis, P., Ciria, L. F., & Sanabria, D. (2016). Transient autonomic responses during sustained attention in high and low fit young adults. Scientific reports, 6.
CURRENT PROJECTS
Multisensory perceptual decision-making under reduced alertness levels
This research program aims to understand how the brain (and cognitive functions) cope with internal physiological pressure due to diminished alertness in order to maintain optimal decision-making.
PI: Luis Ciria - University of Granada (Spain)
NeURAL MARKERS OF PHYSICAL EXHAUSTION
This pioneering research program supposes a shift of the traditional paradigm in Exercise Physiology and Sport Science, turning on the focus from the characterization of physical exertion as a function of transient cardiorespiratory adaptations to the neural and cognitive dynamics that occur while exercising.
PI: Luis Ciria - University of Granada (Spain) & University of Cambrdige (UK)
Arousal modulation of strategic behaviour in a probabilistic reversal learning task.
Here, we aim to investigate the management of probabilistic information —under different levels of arousal— to accurately detect changing decision-making patterns in a stream of conflicting evidence.
PIs: Tristan Bekinschtein - University of Cambrdige (United Kingdom)
Brain function under physical exertion
The main goal of this project is to understand brain dynamics under physical exertion, and to explore whether those dynamics are related to attentional processing. It's based on the conviction that investigating patterns of oscillatory brain activity and cognitive processing of information should be the starting point to understand the relationship among exercise-brain-cognition.
PI: Daniel Sanabria - University of Granada (Spain)
Putting the brain AT work
This project is focused on the effect of self-paced acute aerobic exercise on executive processing, and how modulation of brain and cognitive functioning (via tDCS and cognitive training interventions) affect self-paced exercise and its subsequent influence on executive processing.
PI: Daniel Sanabria - University of Granada (Spain)