Here are the slides of my presentation at the 2021 virtual conference organised by the Spanish Society for Experimental Psychology (SEPEX). In this invited talk I had the opportunity to present the new publication model of the society’s journal, Psicológica. A lot more to come on this project after the imminent official launch of the journal, so stay tuned!
Things to consider before accepting your next peer review assignment
In this post I explain why I only accept peer review assignments by journal editors when they agree to publish my signed review next to the reviewed research work.
CoVidAffect: monitoring mood variations following the COVID-19 outbreak in Spain
Information about the CoVidAffect project that we launched during the Covid-19 lockdown to monitor real-time mood variations in the Spanish territory.
Why think twice before submitting a preprint to bioRxiv
A brief post that explains the reasons why I stopped using and supporting bioRxiv.
What type of sports make you more alert?
In our recently published paper we investigate whether cardiovascular fitness or the type of sport activity practiced is more important for improving alertness. Read the post for a non-technical description of the results and their importance.
Replicability crisis in Psychology: causes and solutions
Summary and slides from the talk I gave on June 13th at the Psychology department of the University of Seville.
My teaching material for an undergraduate course in statistics using JASP available at OSF
I have used the OSF platform to publish my teaching material (in Spanish) for the undergraduate course in statistics I gave this year at the Loyola University. The material was based on the book “Statistics for the Behavioral Sciences” by Susan A. Nolan and Thomas E. Heinzen (second edition) and was largely inspired by available material from Erin Michelle Buchanan, Tabetha Gaile Hopke, and Simone Donaldson.
Open Science round table at CIMCYC
Last Friday I participated in a round table discussing Open Science practices and their relevance for addressing the crisis of replicability in Psychology.
How to upload your scientific software code to GitHub and get a DOI from Zenodo
This past weekend I had the pleasant experience of migrating my software KARDIA form its old home at the SourceForge repository to GitHub. Although the clearest benefit from this migration is the possibility to easier collaborate with other programers for the future development of the software, there are several other sweet candies that came along…
Can increased interoception explain exercise-induced benefits on brain function and cognitive performance?
This is the title of our new preprint, published in PsyArXiv, where we review the evidence in favor of the novel hypothesis that physical exercise enhances cognitive performance by improving interoception.