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Short Vitae Soledad Ballesteros, Ph.D. Full Professor of Basic Psychology Director, Department Psicología Básica II Facultad de Psicología Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia (UNED) Juan del Rosal, 10 28040 Madrid (Spain) E-­‐mail: [email protected] Phone.: 34 91 3986227 Fax: 34 91 3986234 Director, PhD Program Aging and Neurodegenerative Diseases. Honors Program, DGU (Ref. MCD2003-­‐00411) Director, Modular Program on Gerontology (Master and Expert Degrees) Director, Consolidated Research Group (SAND) Studies on Aging and Neurodegenerative Diseases (UNED) Biography and Research Interests Dr. Ballesteros is Professor of Psychology at the Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia (UNED) and full-­‐time faculty member, Director of the Aging and Cognition Laboratory and the Research Group Studies in Aging and Neurodegenerative Diseases. Her research interests focus on memory processes (implicit and explicit memory, working memory) in normal and pathological aging, attention, cross-­‐
modal priming, haptic and visual perception and cognitive neuroscience of aging. She has investigated for the last twenty years on implicit and explicit memory in young and older adults (normal aging and Alzheimer´s disease patients) using behavioral methods as well as neuroimaging techniques (electrophysiological recordings and functional magnetic resonance imaging). Her current research focuses on methods to improve the mental health and wellbeing in the old age using new information and communication technology, networking and brain training. Dr. Ballesteros received her Psychology´s degree with the highest honors at the Universidad Complutense de Madrid (UCM) in 1972 and the PhD degree at the same University in 1979. She won the First Graduation Award in Psychology at the UCM and the National Prize in Psychology (Spain). She first served at the Universidad Computense de Madrid and joined the Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia (UNED) in 1983 where she served as Associate Professor. Director •
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Ph.D. Honors Program on Aging and Neurodegenerative Diseases (Ref.: MDC2003-­‐00411) Dirección General de Universidades (BOE: 12-­‐06-­‐2003). 1 TEACHING Graduate and undergraduate courses in Psychology of Memory; Brain Imaging Techniques: Applications to Attention and Perception; Research in Perception, Attention and Priming: Behavioral and Brain Imaging Studies; Practicum in Research. RESEARCH INTERESTS Implicit and explicit memory across the lifespan, selective attention, memory and aging, neural correlates of aging and cognition (ERPs, fMRI), normal and pathological aging, haptic and visual repetition priming, Information and Communication Technology for successful aging, brain training. RESEARCH SUPPORT Funded Grants – Present and Recent Support Ballesteros, S. (UNED group principal investigator). Multimodal imaging of inflammation. Psychological factors in inflammation and neurodegeneration I+D Biomedicine I+D Research Programs (Ref.: S2011/BMD-­‐2349) Comunidad de Madrid. Direct and indirect costs of 969.610,00 €. 01/01/2012-­‐31/12/2015. Ballesteros, S. (principal investigator, and project coordinator). Compensation factors of cognitive ageing: The role of computer technology and physical activity. A behavioral and neuroimaging study of successful ageing. Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovación(Coord. Project Ref.:PSI2010-­‐21609-­‐C02-­‐01). Direct and indirect costs of 114.950,00 €, 01/01/2011-­‐
31/12/2013. Ballesteros, S. (principal investigator). User-­‐sensitive home-­‐based system for successful Ageing in a Networked Society (AGNES). European Commission FP7-­‐2008-­‐AAL; Reference: AAL-­‐2008-­‐1-­‐
014. Direct and indirect costs of the project of 2.465.000 €. (UNED direct and indirect costs of 211.450 €). 01/09/2009-­‐31/09/2012. Ballesteros, S. (principal investigator). Complementary Action International SOMAPS European Project. MINCIIN. Ref.:PSI2008-­‐01264-­‐E/PSCI, 2009-­‐2010. Ballesteros, S. (principal investigator). Visual memory for objects and aging: A behavioral and neuroimaging study.Movility Program University Professors and Researchers. DGICYT (Ref.: PE-­‐
2007-­‐0069). University of Illinois at Urbana-­‐Champaign. Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology (United States) Ballesteros, S. (principal investigator). Multiparametric imaging of vascular competence (MULTIMAG-­‐CM). Comunidad de Madrid. Programa de Actividades de I+D entre Grupos de Investigación en Biociencias, Área Prioritaria: Ciencias de la Salud y Biotecnología. Línea Científico-­‐Tecnológica: Imágenes Biomédicas. Ref.: 2006/BIO-­‐0170. Direct and indirect costs of 600.000€. 01/01/2007-­‐31/12/2010. Ballesteros, S. (principal investigator). Multilevel systems analysis and modelling of SOmatosensory, Memory, and Affective MAPs of body and objects in multidimensional 2 Subjective space (SOMAPS). European Commission, FP6-­‐2005-­‐NEST-­‐Path, Proposal No 043432. Direct and indirect costs of 2.039.380 €. (UNED: 271.000 €). 2007-­‐2010. Ballesteros, S. (principal investigator, UNED) and Viviane Pouthas (Neurosciences Cognitives et Imagerie Cerebrale LENA, CNRS, Paris, France). Implicit and explicit memory for words and pictures in young and older adults: behavioral and neural correlates. Acción Integrada España-­‐ Francia. (Ref.: HF2006-­‐0037). Costs of 11.000 €, 2007-­‐2009. Ballesteros, S. (principal investigator). Envejecimiento cognitivo: Búsqueda de marcadores para predecir el deterioro cognitivo en el envejecimiento normal y en la Enfermedad de Alzheimer. DGICYT (Ref.: SEJ2004-­‐00752/ PSIC). Costs of 20.700 €, 2004-­‐2007. Ballesteros, S. (principal investigator). Influencia de la actividad física y la dieta equilibrada en la prevención del envejecimiento cognitivo. Ministerio de Trabajo y Asuntos Sociales-­‐IMSERSO (Ref.: I+D+I 66/05). Costs 38.000 €. 2005-­‐2006. SELECTED PUBLICATIONS Edited Books Heller, M. A., & Ballesteros, S. (Eds.) (2006). Touch and Blindness: Psychology and Neuroscience. Hillsdale, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates. Ballesteros, S. (Dir.) (2006). Aging, Cognition, and Neuroscience/ Envejecimiento, Cognición y Neurociencia (346 pp.). Madrid: UNED Ballesteros, S. (Ed.) (2004). Gerontología. Un saber multidisciplinar. Madrid: UNED-­‐Universitas. Madrid: UNED-­‐ Editorial Universitas. Ballesteros and M. A. Heller (Eds.) (2003), Touch, blindness, and neuroscience. Madrid: UNED Varia. Shepp, B.E., & Ballesteros, S. (Eds.) (1989). Object perception: Structure and process. Hillsdale, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates. Ballesteros, S. (Ed.)(1994). Cognitive approaches to human perception. Hillsdale, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates. Ballesteros, S. (Dir.) (2007). Envejecimiento Saludable: Aspectos, Biológicos, Psicológicos y Sociales. (387 pp.). Madrid: UNED-­‐ Editorial Universitas. Book Chapters (in English) Ballesteros, S. & Morton A. Heller (2008). Haptic object identification. In M. Grunwald (Ed.), Human Haptic Perception: Basics and Applications (pp.183-­‐198). Boston: Birkhäser Verlag. Ballesteros, S. (2008). Implicit and explicit memory effects in haptic perception. In M. Grunwald (Ed.), Human Haptic Perception: Basics and Applications (pp. 207-­‐222). Boston: Birkhäser Verlag. 3 Ballesteros, S., & Reales, J. M. (2006). Haptic repetition priming and recognition in young adults, older adults and in Alzheimer´s disease: Evidence for dissociable memory systems (pp. 95-­‐119). En M. A. Heller and S. Ballesteros (Eds.), Touch and Blindness: Psychology and Neuroscience. Hillsdale, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates. Heller, M. A., & Ballesteros, S. (2006). Introduction: Approaches to touch and blindness (pp. 1-­‐
24). En M. A. Heller and S. Ballesteros (Eds.), Touch and Blindness: Psychology and Neuroscience. Hillsdale, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates. Ballesteros, S., & Heller, M. A. (2006). Conclusion. Touch and Blindness: Psychology and Neuroscience (pp. 197-­‐218). In M. A. Heller and S. Ballesteros (Eds.), Touch and Blindness: Psychology and Neuroscience. Hillsdale, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates. Ballesteros, S., Reales, J. M., & Mayas, J. (2006). Implicit memory and selective attention at encoding: Effects on aging and dementia. En S. Ballesteros (Dir.), Aging, Cognition, and Neuroscience/ Envejecimiento, Cognición y Neurociencia (pp. 39-­‐41).UNED. Ballesteros, S. (1994). Cognitive approaches to visual perception: An introduction. En S. Ballesteros (Ed.), Cognitive approaches to human perception (pp. 1-­‐20). Hillsdale, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates. Ballesteros, S., & Manga, D. (1994). The influence of irrelevant information in visual perception. En S. Ballesteros (Ed.), Cognitive approaches to human perception (pp 43-­‐67). Hillsdale, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates. Ballesteros, S. (1989). Some determinants of perceived structure: Effects of stimulus and tasks. En B.E. Shepp y S. Ballesteros (Eds.), Object perception: Structure and process (pp. 235-­‐266). Hillsdale, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates. Ballesteros, S. (1989). Metric and perceived structures of lines varying in inclination and length. En D. Vickers y P.L. Smith (Eds.), Human information processing: Measures, mechanisms and models (pp. 199-­‐215). Amsterdam: North-­‐Holland. Books (In Spanish) Ballesteros, S. (2012a). Psicología de la Memoria: Estructuras, procesos, sistemas. Madrid: UNED-­‐ Universitas. Ballesteros, S. (2012b). Practicas de Psicología de la Memoria: Estructuras, procesos, sistemas. Manual de Practicas y Cuaderno de Trabajo. Madrid: UNED-­‐Universitas. Ballesteros, S. (2002). Psicología General I (Vol. 2), Atención y Percepción. Madrid. UNED. Ballesteros, S., y Miembros UMAM (2002). Aprendizaje y memoria en la vejez. Madrid: UNED, Aula Abierta. Ballesteros, S. (2001). Psicología General I (Vol. 1). Madrid: UNED. Ballesteros, S. (2001). Habilidades cognitivas básicas. Formación y deterioro. Madrid: UNED, Aula Abierta. 4 Ballesteros, S. (2000, Nueva Edición Revisada y Aumentada). Psicología General. Un enfoque cognitivo para el siglo XXI. Madrid: Editorial Universitas. Reales, J.M., y Ballesteros, S (2000). TDS_EXPER para Windows. Un programa informático para la teoría de la detección de señales. Manual del usuario y CD con software, Nuevo Programa para entorno Windows. Madrid: Editorial Universitas. Ballesteros, S. (1994). Psicología General II. Un enfoque cognitivo. Madrid: Editorial Universitas. Peer-­‐Reviewed Articles Ballesteros, S., Bischof, G. N., Goh, J. O., & Park, D. C. (2013). Neural correlates of conceptual object priming in young and older adults: An event-­‐related fMRI study. Neurobiology of Aging, 34, 1254-­‐1264. Heller, M. A., Smith, A., Schnarr, R., Larson, J., & Ballesteros, S. (2013). The horizontal-­‐vertical curvature illusion in touch is present in 3D objects as well as raised-­‐lines. American Journal of Psychology, 126, 67-­‐81. 5 Ballesteros, S., Mayas, J., & Reales, J. M. (2013). Cognitive function in healthy aging and mild cognitive impaired older adults. Psicothema, 25, 18-­‐24. Ballesteros, S., Peter, C., Waterworth, E. L., & Waterworth, J. A. (2012). The role of ICT and networking in healthy aging. The 5th ACM International Conference on PErvasive Technologies Related to Assistive Environments : PETRA 2012 [CDROM]. New York: ACM, 2012. Ballesteros, S., Mayas, J., Reales, J. M., & Heller, M. A. (2012). The effect of age on the haptic horizontal-­‐vertical curvature illusion with raised-­‐line shapes. Developmental Neuropsychology, 37, 653-­‐667. Mayas, J., Fuentes, L. J., & Ballesteros, S. (2012). Stroop interference and negative priming suppression in normal aging. Archives of Gerontology and Geriatrics, 54, 333-­‐338. Ballesteros, S., Peter, C., Waterworth, E. L., & Waterworth, J. A. (2012). The role of ICT and networking in healthy aging. To appear in: The 5th ACM International Conference on PErvasive Technologies Related to Assistive Environments : PETRA 2012 [CDROM]. New York: ACM, 2012. Waterworth, E. L., Waterworth, J. A., Ballesteros, S., & Peter, C. (2012). Seniors in charge of new ICT innovation. To appear in: The 5th ACM International Conference on PErvasive Technologies Related to Assistive Environments: PETRA 2012 [CD-­‐ROM]. New York: ACM, 2012. Sebastián, M., & Ballesteros, S. (2012). Effects of normal aging on event-­‐related potentials and oscillatory brain activity during a haptic repetition priming task. NeuroImage.60, 7–20. Sebastián, M., Reales, J. M., & Ballesteros, S. (2011) electrophysiological study using a haptic recognition memory task with familiar objects. Neuropsychologia, 49. 3967-­‐3980. Muñoz, F., Sebastián, M., Reales, J. M., & Ballesteros, S. (2010). Modulations in low-­‐frequency EEG oscillations in the processing of tactile surfaces. In A.M.I. Kappers et al., (Eds.), EuroHaptics 2010, Part II, LNCS 6192, pp. 37-­‐43. Berlin Heiderberg: Springer-­‐Verlag. Reales, J. M., Muñoz, F., Kleinboehl, D., Sebastián, M., & Ballesteros, S. (2010). A new device to present textured stimuli to touch with simultaneous EEG recording. Behavioral Research Methods, 42, 547-­‐555. Osorio, A., Pouthas, V., Fay, S., & Ballesteros, S. (2010). Ageing affects brain activity in highly educated older adults: An ERP study using a word-­‐stem priming task. Cortex, 46, 522-­‐534. Osorio, A., Ballesteros, S., Fay, S., &. Pouthas, V. (2009). The effect of age on word-­‐stem cued recall: A behavioral and electrophysiological study. Brain Research, 1289, 56-­‐68. Waterworth, J., Ballesteros, S, & Peter, C. (2009). User-­‐sensitive home-­‐based systems for successful ageing. Proceedings of HSI 2009. 2nd International Conference on Human system Interaction. Catania. Italy, May 2009. IEEE Computer Society, doi. 10.1109/WHC.2009.4810901 Ballesteros, S., Muñoz, F., Sebastián, M., García, B., & Reales, JM. (2009). ERP evidence of tactile texture processing: Effects of roughness and movement. WorldHaptics Proceedings (WHC´09), pp. 166-­‐171. Salt Lake City, USA: IEEE Computer Society,http://doi.ieeecomputersociety.org/10.1109/WHC.2009.4810901 6 Ballesteros, S., González, M., Mayas, J., Reales, J. M., & García, B. (2009). Crossmodal object priming in young and older adults: Multisensory processing in vision, touch, and audition. European Journal of Cognitive Psychology. Special Issue on Aging, Cognition, and Neuroscience, 21, 366-­‐387. Ballesteros, S., Nilsson, L.-­‐G., & Lemaire, P. (2009). Aging, cognition and Neuroscience: An introduction. European Journal of Cognitive Psychology. Special Issue on Aging, Cognition, and Neuroscience, 21, 161-­‐175. Ballesteros, S., J.M. Reales, J. Mayas, & Heller, M. A. (2008).Selective attention modulates visual and haptic repetition priming: Effects on aging and Alzheimers´ disease. Experimental Brain Research, 189, 473-­‐483. Sebastián, M., Mayas, J., Manso, A., & Ballesteros, S. (2008). Working memory for visual and haptic targets: A study using the interference paradigm. M. Ferre (Ed.), EuroHaptics 2008, LCNS 5024, 395-­‐399. Springer-­‐Verlag Berlin Heidelberg. Fusari, A., &Ballesteros, S. (2008). Identification of odors o f edible and non-­‐edible stimuli as affected by age and gender. Behavioral Research Methods, 40, 752-­‐759. Ballesteros, S., Reales, J. M., & García, B. (2007). The effects of selective attention on perceptual priming and explicit recognition in children with attention deficit and normal children. European Journal of Cognitive Psychology, 19, 607-­‐627. Ballesteros, S., Bardisa, L., Millar, S., & Reales, J. M. (2005). The haptic test battery: A new instrument to test tactual abilities in blind and visually impaired and sighted children. British Journal of Visual Impairment, 23, 11-­‐24. Ballesteros, S.,& Reales, J. M. (2004). Intact haptic priming in normal aging and Alzheimer´s disease: Evidence for dissociable memory systems. Neuropsychologia, 44, 1063-­‐1070. Ballesteros, S., & Reales, J. M. (2004). Visual and haptic discrimination of symmetry in unfamiliar displays extended in the z-­‐axis. Perception, 33,315-­‐327. Reales, J. M., & Ballesteros, S. (2002). Visual-­‐word identification thresholds for the 260 fragmented words of the Snodgrass and Vanderwart pictures in Spanish. Behavioral Research Methods, Instruments and Computer, 34, 276-­‐285 Reales, J.M., &Ballesteros, S. (1999). Implicit and explicit memory for visual and haptic objects: Cross-­‐modal priming depends on structural descriptions. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 25, 1-­‐20. Ballesteros, S., Millar, S., & Reales, J.M. (1998). Symmetry in haptic and in visual shape Perception. Perception & Psychophysics, 60. 389-­‐404. Ballesteros, S., Manga, D., & Reales, J.M. (1997). Haptic discrimination of bilateral symmetry in two-­‐dimensional and three-­‐dimensional unfamiliar displays. Perception & Psychophysics, 59, 37-­‐50. Reales, J. M., & Ballesteros, S. (1994). SDT_SP, a program in Pascal for computing parameters and significance tests from several detection theory designs. Behavioral Research Methods, Instruments and Computers, 26, 151-­‐155. 7 Organization of International Conferences
Ballesteros, S. (UNED, 2004) Organizer & Chair First International Conference on Aging, Cognition, and Neuroscience, December 15-­‐17, 2004, Madrid, Spain. Ballesteros, S. (UNED, 2002) & Morton A. Heller (Easter Illinois University, USA). Organizer & Chair, International Conference Touch, Blindness, and Neuroscience, October 16-­‐18, 2002, Madrid, Spain. Ballesteros, S. (UNED, 1993). Organizer & Chair with Lynn, A. Cooper (Columbia University, USA) & Roberta L. Klatzky (The University of California, Santa Barbara, USA) International Conference on Object Representation in the Visual and Haptic Systems, May 17-­‐19, 1993, Madrid, Spain. Ballesteros, S. (UNED, 1987) & Brayn E. Shepp (Brown University, USA). Organizadores y Chairs de la Conferencia Internacional Object Perception: Structure and Process, May 18-­‐20, 1987, Madrid, Spain. Session Chair
Ballesteros, S. (May 2012). Chair Session 1-­‐14: Developmental disorders and aging. Symposium 1: Neuroscience and Medicine. NeuroTalks 2012. Beijing, China. Ballesteros, S. (April 2010). Session Chair, Perception 1. 1st Joint Conference o the EPS and SEPEX & 8th SEPEX Conference 2010, Granada (Spain). Ballesteros, S. (March, 2009). Session Co-­‐chair, Psychophysics 5. WorldHaptics Conference 2009, (with S. Choi). Salt Lake City, Utah, USA. Ballesteros, S. (November, 2008). Session Chair, Perception. At the 49th Annual Meeting of the Psychonomic Society, Chicago, USA. Ballesteros, S. (April, 2008). Session Chair 5a. Aging and Cognitive Decline. VII SEPEX Congress. San Sebastián, Spain. Ballesteros, S. (Julio, 2007). Session Co-­‐chair “Haptic Perception Symposium”. Second Iberian Conference on Perception. CIP (with D. Travieso). Madrid 2007. Ballesteros, S. (March, 2007). Co-­‐chair Session Psychophysics III. WorldHaptics Conference 2007 (with L. Jones). Tsukuba, Japan. Ballesteros, S. (November, 2006). Session Chair of the Symposium (with Lars-­‐Göran Nilsson) Cognitive aging: Genetics, behaviour, Neuroscience, and technology. At the 47th Annual Meeting of the Psychonomic Society, Houston, Texas, United States. Ballesteros, S. (July, 2005). Session Chair (with Soto-­‐Faraco, S.) Haptic Perception Symposium. First Iberian Congress of Perception. Barcelona, Spain. Ballesteros, S. (November, 2005). Session Chair, Cuing Visual Attention. At the 46th Annual Meeting of the Psychonomic Society, Toronto, Canada. Ballesteros, S. (March, 2005). Co-­‐chair Session B 4. WorldHaptics Conference 2005. Pisa, Italy. 8 Ballesteros, S. (Junio 2004). Session Chair: Diseño de contenidos educativos de Psicología en entornos virtuales de aprendizaje. Virtual Educa, Barcelona, Spain. Ballesteros, S. (Noviembre 2002). Sesion Chair Atención y Cognición. IV Semana de Investigación de la Facultad de Psicología, UNED, Madrid, Spain. Ballesteros, S. (1989, Mayo). Session chair: Perceptual Organization, The Perception of Structure: In Honor of Professor Wendell Garner, Yale University, New Haven, USA. PROFESIONAL MEMBERSHIPS AND OTHER INFORMATION -
BRAID: Bridging Research in Ageing and ICT Development. Member of the Board of Experts of the FP7 project BRAID: Bridging Research in Ageing and ICT Development. -
Collaborating Centre of the International Association of Gerontology and Geriatrics (IAGG) 2009 -­‐2013. -
Member of the Psychonomic Society Member European Society for Cognitive Psychology Member of the Tactile Research Group Member Sociedad Española de Psicología Experimental (SEPEX) -
Advisory Council Member International Association for the Study of Attention and Performance. E:\Articulos\INTERNATIONAL ASSOCIATION FOR THE STUDY OF ATTENTION AND PERFORMANCE.htm -
Foreign Member of the American Psychological Association Associate Editorship European Journal of Cognitive Psychology, 2005-2009.
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Guest Editor 2009 Special Issue on Aging, Cognition and Neuroscience, European Journal of
Cognitive Psychology.
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Journals
Acción Psicológica (2003...), Acta Psychologica (2004...), Attention, Perception &
Psychophysics (2009), Behavioral Methods, Instruments, and Computers (2000...), Cognition
(2012…), Cognitive Brain Research (2004…), Cognitive Processing (2011…), Consciousness
and Cognition (2004…), Educación XX1(2012…), European Journal of Cognitive Psychology
(2000...), European Journal of Psychological Assessment (1997), Experimental Brain Research
(2008…), International Journal of Psychology (2005…), Journal of Experimental Psychology:
Learning, Memory and Cognition (1990…), Medical Science Monitor (2005…), Memory &
Cognition (2000...), Neuropsychologia (2005….), Neuroimage (2011...), Neuroscience Letters
(2011...), Psicologica (1999…), Perception (2000...), Perception & Psychophysics (1997…),
Psicothema (1989…), Psicología Social (2008....), Psychological Science (2004...), Psychology,
Society & Education (2011…), Psychology and Aging (2013…), Psychonomic Bulletin &
Review (2006…), Revista Española de Geriatría y Gerontología (2010…), Spanish Journal of
Psychology (2006…), Transactions in Haptics (2008…)
9 Editorial Boards Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 1991 – 2000; Psicothema, 1989…; Psicológica, 1999...; Program Committee Member (Haptic Science) WorldHAPTICS 2005, Pisa, Italy; Program Committee Member (Haptic Science) WorldHAPTICS 2007, Tsukuba, Japan; International Program Committee, EuroHaptics 2008, Madrid, Spain; Editorial Board, Associate Editor (Haptic Science), World Haptics 2009 Conference, Salt Lake City, Utah, USA; Associate Editor for World Haptic 2011 Conference, Istambul (Turkey). Research Grant Agencies and Accreditation Committees MEMBER, Expert panel ACADEMIA Program for National Accreditation, 2013. EVALUATOR as an Independent Expert, FP7-­‐ICT-­‐2011-­‐9. Information and Communication Technologies-­‐ Object 9.11 Neuro-­‐Bio-­‐Inspired Systems. Seventh Framework Programme 2012 (FP7), European Commission. PRESIDENT, Assessment Committee Social Sciences (CSJ4). Agencia de Calidad, Acreditación y Prospectiva de las Universidades de Madrid (ACAP), 2010-­‐2012. CHAIR, Best Oral Presentation Award. EuroHaptics 2010 Conference. Amsterdam, 8-­‐10 July, 2010. MEMBER, Comisión de Conciliación de Ciencias Sociales y Jurídicas 3. Agencia de Calidad, Acreditación y Prospectiva de las Universidades de Madrid (ACAP), 2008. MEMBER, Social Sciences Committee Honors Program PhD Programs, ANECA 2007-­‐2009. European Commission, ALFA II Program, Subprogram A.AML/B7-­‐311/97/0666/II-­‐153-­‐A. Long Distance Education Programs. PANEL EVALUATOR European Research Council Starting Grants: Ideas Specific Programme (ERC-­‐2007-­‐StG). European Commission RTD/S/2-­‐ Management of the IDEAS Programme. EVALUATOR, Research Projects. Sixth Framework Programme 2002-­‐2006 (FP6), European Commission. EVALUATOR, Marie Curie Actions-­‐EIF Panel Life Sciences. European Commission. Mobility Grants of Scientists in Europe. Sixth Framework Programme 2002-­‐2006 FP6). European Commission. REFEREE RESEARCH PROJECTS Human Cognition and Perception Program (1992). National Science Foundation (United States). REFEREE, “NATO Collaborative Research Grants”, NATO Scientific Affairs Division, Brussels, 1989. REVIEWER, Research Projects ANEP, I+D National Research Programs I+D, 2000….. REVIEWER, Research Projects, Comunidad de Madrid, 2001…... 10 REVIEWER Excellence Research Projects, Consejería de Innovación, Ciencia y Empresa de la Junta de Andalucía 2006. Other Services -­‐
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Visiting Scholar at The University of Arizona at Tucson (USA); Columbia University (New York, USA), Brown University (Providence, USA), Swarthmore College (Philadelphia, USA); Oxford University (UK); Beckman Institute (University Illinois at Urbana-­‐Champaign, USA), Brain Health Center (University of Texas at Dallas, USA), University of California at Berkeley (USA); Trier Universität (Germany); Manheim Universität (Germany); Universities of Universidades Buenos Aires, La Plata, Mar Del Plata, Córdoba, Rosario, San Luis (Argentina); CNRS-­‐LENA, Hospital La Salpetrière (Paris, France). 11