• openAccess   Alternative psychotherapies: Conceptual elucidation and epidemiological framework 

      Fasce, Angelo; Adrián-Ventura, Jesús American Psychological Association (2020)
      This article elucidates and defines alternative psychotherapies, as well as describes the variables that explain why some professional psychologists are prone to endorse these practices. First, the novel concept of ...
    • openAccess   Auditory and frontal anatomic correlates of pitch discrimination in musicians, non-musicians, and children without musical training 

      Palomar-García, María-Ángeles; Hernández, Mireia; Olcina-Sempere, Gustau; Adrián-Ventura, Jesús; Costumero, Víctor; Miró-Padilla, Anna; Villar-Rodríguez, Esteban; Avila, Cesar Springer (2020-12)
      Individual differences in pitch discrimination have been associated with the volume of both the bilateral Heschl’s gyrus and the right inferior frontal gyrus (IFG). However, most of these studies used samples composed of ...
    • openAccess   Bilingualism's Effects on Resting-State Functional Connectivity in Mild Cognitive Impairment 

      Marin-Marin, Lidón; Palomar-García, María-Ángeles; Miró-Padilla, Anna; Adrián-Ventura, Jesús; Aguirre, Naiara; Villar-Rodríguez, Esteban; Costumero, Víctor Mary Ann Liebert (2021-01-21)
      Background: Bilingualism is considered a cognitive reserve (CR) factor, due to the delay in the onset of dementia in bilinguals compared with monolinguals. Two neural mechanisms have been suggested to underlie CR: neural ...
    • openAccess   Distance disintegration characterizes node-level topological dysfunctions in cocaine addiction 

      Costumero, Víctor; Rosell Negre, Patricia; Bustamante, Juan Carlos; Fuentes-Claramonte, Paola; Adrián-Ventura, Jesús; Palomar-García, María-Ángeles; Miró-Padilla, Anna; Llopis, Juan José; Sepulcre, Jorge; Barrós-Loscertales, Alfonso Wiley (2021-11)
      Previous investigations have used global graph theory measures in order to disentangle the complexity of the neural reorganizations occurring in cocaine use disorder (CUD). However, how these global topological alterations ...
    • openAccess   Do as the Romans do: On the authoritarian roots of pseudoscience 

      Fasce, Angelo; Adrián-Ventura, Jesús; Avendaño, Diego SAGE Publications (2020)
      Recent research highlights the implications of group dynamics in the acceptance and promotion of misconceptions, particularly in relation to the identity-protective attitudes that boost polarisation over scientific ...
    • openAccess   Funcionalidad del hipocampo en pacientes prequirúrgicos: evaluación mediante RMf 

      Fernández Buendía, Sara; Lacomba Arnau, Elena; Adrián-Ventura, Jesús; Avila, Cesar Publicacions de la Universitat Jaume I. Servei de Comunicació i Publicacions (2020)
      Introducción: Las intervenciones quirúrgicas en pacientes con lesiones en el lóbulo temporal pueden ocasionar déficits en su memoria episódica. Sin embargo, no existen exploraciones mediante resonancia magnética ...
    • openAccess   Grey matter reduction in the occipitotemporal cortex in Spanish children with dyslexia: A voxel-based morphometry study 

      Adrián-Ventura, Jesús; Soriano-Ferrer, Manuel; Fuentes-Claramonte, Paola; Morte Soriano, Manuel Ramón; Parcet, Maria Antonia; Avila, Cesar Elsevier (2019-09-30)
      Structural and functional neuroimaging studies have reported brain alterations in occipitotemporal, temporoparietal, and left frontal areas in dyslexic patients. These areas have been linked to reading skill impairments, ...
    • openAccess   Individual Differences in Hippocampal Volume as a Function of BMI and Reward Sensitivity 

      Parcet, Maria Antonia; Adrián-Ventura, Jesús; Costumero, Víctor; Avila, Cesar Frontiers Media (2020-04-09)
      Sensitivity to reward is a personality trait that predisposes a person to several addictive behaviors, including the presence of different risky behaviors that facilitates uncontrolled eating. However, the multifactorial ...
    • openAccess   Left-handed musicians show a higher probability of atypical cerebral dominance for language. 

      Villar-Rodríguez, Esteban; Palomar-García, María-Ángeles; Hernández, Mireia; Adrián-Ventura, Jesús; Olcina-Sempere, Gustau; Parcet, Maria Antonia; Avila, Cesar Wiley (2020-02-07)
      Music processing and right hemispheric language lateralization share a common network in the right auditory cortex and its frontal connections. Given that the development of hemispheric language dominance takes place over ...
    • openAccess   Opening or closing eyes at rest modulates the functional connectivity of V1 with default and salience networks 

      Costumero, Víctor; Bueichekú, Elisenda; Adrián-Ventura, Jesús; Rivera Ávila, César Nature Research (2020)
      Current evidence suggests that volitional opening or closing of the eyes modulates brain activity and connectivity. However, how the eye state influences the functional connectivity of the primary visual cortex has been ...
    • openAccess   Relevance of the anterior cingulate cortex volume and personality in motivated physical activity behaviors 

      Miró-Padilla, Anna; Adrián-Ventura, Jesús; Cherednichenko, Anastasia; Monzonís-Carda, Irene; Beltran Valls, Maria Reyes; Moliner-Urdiales, Diego; Avila, Cesar Springer Nature (2023-10-31)
      Some recent theories about the origins and maintenance of regular physical activity focus on the rewards of the properties of practicing this activity. Animal and human studies have demonstrated that mesolimbic dopamine ...
    • openAccess   Revised and short versions of the pseudoscientific belief scale 

      Fasce, Angelo; Avendaño, Diego; Adrián-Ventura, Jesús John Wiley and Sons (2021)
      In this article, we develop the revised and short versions of the pseudoscientific belief scale through two empirical studies (N = 4154). This revision is motivated by the excessive length of the scale, as well as by ...
    • openAccess   Reward network connectivity “at rest” is associated with reward sensitivity in healthy adults: A resting-state fMRI study 

      Adrián-Ventura, Jesús; Costumero, Víctor; Parcet, Maria Antonia; Avila, Cesar Springer (2019)
      The behavioral approach system (BAS), based on reinforcement sensitivity theory (RST), is a neurobehavioral system responsible for detecting and promoting motivated behaviors towards appetitive stimuli. Anatomically, the ...
    • openAccess   Science through a tribal lens: A group-based account of polarization over scientific facts 

      Fasce, Angelo; Adrián-Ventura, Jesús; Lewandowsky, Stephan; van der Linden, Sander (2021)
      Previous research has confirmed the prominent role of group processes in the promotion and endorsement of disinformation. We report three studies on a psychological framework derived from integrated threat theory—a ...
    • openAccess   Sex differences in gray matter volume: how many and how large are they really? 

      Sanchis-Segura, Carla; Ibáñez Gual, Maria Victoria; Adrián-Ventura, Jesús; Aguirre, Naiara; Cruz Gómez, Álvaro Javier; Avila, Cesar; Forn, Cristina BMC (2019-07-01)
      Background: Studies assessing volumetric sex differences have provided contradictory results. Total intracranial volume (TIV) is a major confounding factor when estimating local volumes of interest (VOIs). We investigated ...
    • openAccess   Spanish Adaptation of the Left-Wing Authoritarianism Index 

      Avendaño, Diego; Fasce, Angelo; Costello, Thomas; Adrián-Ventura, Jesús Routledge (2021-10-01)
      Notwithstanding long-simmering controversies around the construct, several studies have gathered consistent evidence of authoritarian attitudes among left-wing voters and activists. Recently, Costello et al. (Clarifying ...
    • openAccess   Sustained and transient gray matter volume changes after n-back training: A VBM study 

      Miró-Padilla, Anna; Bueichekú, Elisenda; Adrián-Ventura, Jesús; Costumero, Víctor; Palomar-García, María-Ángeles; Villar-Rodríguez, Esteban; Marin-Marin, Lidón; Avila, Cesar; Aguirre, Naiara Elsevier (2020-12-19)
      Working memory training causes functional adaptations in the brain, which include changes in activation and functional connectivity that remain stable over time. Few studies have investigated gray matter (GM) changes after ...
    • openAccess   The adhesio interthalamica as a neuroanatomical marker of structural differences in healthy adult population 

      Miró-Padilla, Anna; Adrián-Ventura, Jesús; Costumero, Víctor; Palomar-García, María-Ángeles; Villar-Rodríguez, Esteban; Marin-Marin, Lidón; Aguirre, Naiara; Bueichekú, Elisenda Springer (2021-07-01)
      The adhesio interthalamica (AI) is a small midline brain structure that connects the left and right thalamus. According to in vivo data, between 2.3 and 22.3% of the general population lack the AI, and the question of ...
    • openAccess   The manifestation of individual differences in sensitivity to punishment during resting state is modulated by eye state 

      Costumero, Víctor; Adrián-Ventura, Jesús; Bueichekú, Elisenda; Miró-Padilla, Anna; Palomar-García, María-Ángeles; Marin-Marin, Lidón; Villar-Rodríguez, Esteban; Aguirre, Naiara; Barrós-Loscertales, Alfonso; Avila, Cesar Springer (2021)
    • openAccess   Two different brain networks underlying picture naming with familiar pre-existing native words and new vocabulary 

      Palomar-García, María-Ángeles; Villar-Rodríguez, Esteban; Pérez-Lozano, Cristina; Sanjuán, Ana; Bueichekú, Elisenda; Miró-Padilla, Anna; Costumero, Víctor; Adrián-Ventura, Jesús; Parcet, Maria Antonia; Ávila, César Elsevier (2023)
      The present research used fMRI to longitudinally investigate the impact of learning new vocabulary on the activation pattern of the language control network by measuring BOLD signal changes during picture naming tasks ...