X INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE
ON PSYCHOLOGY AND EDUCATION
14 - 18 June 2021, Cordoba, Spain
From Neural to Social Networks: Wellbeing and Convivencia
X INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE
ON PSYCHOLOGY AND EDUCATION
14 - 18 June 2021, Cordoba, Spain
From Neural to Social Networks: Wellbeing and Convivencia
Expert Panels
Expert

Manuel Martín Loeches
Professor of Psychobiology
Complutense University of Madrid
Manuel Martín-Loeches is Professor of Psychobiology at the Complutense University of Madrid, where he took a PhD in Psychobiology which included a doctoral thesis on brain activity and cognition in Alzheimer's and multi-infarct dementia patients. Since then, he has focused on a variety of topic areas, always related to the brain and human cognition, in both healthy people and patients with different pathologies, especially schizophrenia. He carried out post-doctoral research at the University of Konstanz (Germany) and at the Humboldt University in Berlin. After that, he has continued with further scientific studies abroad, at institutions such as the Welcome Laboratory of Neurobiology, University College London.
The basic cognitive processes he has addressed in his research include visual attention, working memory and, above all, human language. In particular, in recent years, he has worked intensively on the evolution of the human mind and brain, contributing a number of essays to this field on the role of working memory in the development of the modern human mind, the relationships between cognition and the form of the human brain, and the interaction between the emotions and cognitive processes, with the aim of revealing the vulnerability of our minds and brain to external, especially social, factors. In addition, he has contributed to the study of the neurocognitive mechanisms of religion, aesthetics and art, as well as such fundamentally social and human emotions as guilt, shame or pride.
He is the co-author of over 100 scientific articles and 90 presentations for congresses, courses and conferences, and is the author of the books What is brain activity? Techniques for studying it (New Library, 2001), The mind of Homo sapiens. The brain and human evolution (Aguilar, 2008), The evolution of the brain: the fascinating history of our mind (RBA, 2018) and The social brain: why we are designed to connect with others (RBA, 2019). Together with Juan Luis Arsuaga, he has also co-authored The indelible stamp: the past, present and future of the human being (Debate, 2013). In addition, he features sporadically in a range of different media, such as El Cultural de El Mundo, QUO magazine, Cadena SER Radio, or the Cuatro TV network.
Coordinator

Sylvia Sastre i Riba
Professor of Psychology
University of La Rioja
Director of the Department of Educational Sciences at the University of La Rioja. Professor of Developmental Psychology and Education at the University of La Rioja. Academic Director of the Official Master's Degree in Educational Intervention and Innovation at the University of La Rioja. Co-director of the University Master’s Degree in Neuropsychology of Advanced Intellectual Capacity at the University of La Rioja. Co-director of the University Master’s Degree Autism Spectrum Disorders at the University of La Rioja. Academic Director of the Summer Course an Educational Model for the Development of High Capacity: The differentiated curriculum at the University of La Rioja. Principal Investigator of the EICUR Research Group (Cognitive Research at the University of La Rioja).
Expert

Manuel de Vega Rodríguez
Professor of Psychology
University of La Laguna
After a short spell as associate professor of Psychology at the University of Santiago de Compostela (1981-82), he then became professor of Basic Psychology at the University of La Laguna, and since then has kept up an uninterrupted career of teaching and scientific research in the field of the cognitive and brain processes involved in language. There, as a founder and current director of the University Institute of Neuroscience (IUNE), he and his colleagues have carried out research into techniques of electroencephalography (EEG), non-invasive brain stimulation and functional neuroimaging. His main lines of research centre around the neurophysiology and neuroanatomy of linguistic meaning, looking at the functional role of the corporeal processes in the construction of meaning, with a special focus on how the brain reuses neuronal networks of motor skills, inhibitory control, perception and emotion in the understanding of language.
As a visiting scholar, he has carried out scientific exchanges in several research centres in the United States (Harvard, Illinois, Oregon, Wisconsin and Memphis), Italy (Bologna, Padua and Rome), Germany (Saarbrucken, Dresden and Freiburg), France (Paris and the CNRS), the United Kingdom (Sussex and York), Holland (Institute of Psycholinguistics Max Planck), Cuba (Neuroscience Centre of Cuba), Chile (Concepción), Colombia (Medellín), Argentina (Institute of Cognitive Neurology, INECO ) and China (Dalian). He has been the principal investigator in over a dozen competitive projects; all in all, he has directed 18 doctoral theses, published around 100 articles (mainly in international journals of psychology and neuroscience) and written or edited 6 books in the areas of cognitive psychology, psycholinguistics and cognitive neuroscience. He has 6 six-year recognised periods of research by the Spanish government, the maximum possible number, in recognition of his continued scientific production over several decades. In addition, he has been president of the Spanish Society of Experimental Psychology, was named Fellow of the Society for Text and Discourse and in 2017 received the Research Prize from the University of La Laguna.