Kenya Martínez Rodríguez

Biography

Academic training most outstanding : She has a degree in Psychology and a PhD in Clinical and Health Psychology from the Universidad Autónoma de Madrid. She has also completed four years of the Psychology Degree at the University of Havana, Cuba. Outstanding extra-academic training : She has participated in several courses related to training in magnetic resonance imaging, such as Post-Processing Workshop in Neuroimaging with MR (FRS, Madrid, Spain). Most relevant publications : She is the author of more than 30 papers and papers presented at national and international congresses, and of 34 collaborations in the form of book chapters and articles in specialized magazines of high impact in the area of ​​neuroimaging, the study of differences individual intelligence and personality, as well as the study of psychiatric disorders such as' Human BrainMapping ',' Neuroimaging ',' Brain Topology ',' Intelligence ',' Personality and Individual Differences', 'Journal of the American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry 'and' Brain Structure and Function '

Research Interest

Her main lines of research are (1) the study of the neuroanatomical and functional bases of cognitive abilities through the use of neuroimaging techniques; (2) the study of the effect of intensive cognitive training (through specific experimental tasks or commercial video games) in the improvement of intellectual abilities and their cerebral correlates; (3) the study of normal and pathological brain development (eg autism, first psychotic outbreaks), as well as the impact of pathological brain development on basic cognitive functions; and (4) reliability analysis of the results obtained using different magnetic resonance imaging acquisition and processing protocols, behavioral measures, participant samples and brain measurements.