José Antonio Periéñez

Dr. José A. Periáñez is a neuropsychologist, researcher and full professor in the Departamento de Psicología Experimental, Procesos Cognitivos y Logopedia of the Universidad Complutense de Madrid (UCM). In his more than 20 years of experience he has taught more than 4.000 hours of instruction in official degree programs at the undergraduate, graduate, postgraduate and doctoral levels in roles such as Profesor Ayudante, Profesor Ayudante Doctor, Profesor Visitante and Profesor Titular de Universidad at various Spanish universities.

The main focus of his research has been the study of executive functions and attentional control processes in humans. The development of this work has had an experimental/basic strand through the use of neurophysiological and neuroimaging techniques such as electroencephalography, magnetoencephalography, functional magnetic resonance imaging, and transcranial magnetic stimulation. He has also developed a clinical/applied strand centered on the study of the impairments of these functions (patients with multiple sclerosis, Parkinson’s disease, traumatic brain injury, schizophrenia or obsessive-compulsive disorders) and on the development of evidence-based assessment and intervention procedures (test validation studies and clinical trials).

His scientific output can be summarized as more than 40 articles in indexed scientific journals, half of them Q1, with a total of 2.144 citations, 5 books and another 15 book chapters, supervising 8 doctoral theses. He has participated in 7 research projects funded in public and private calls, and has obtained 3 sexenios de investigación.

He has collaborated with reference centers such as Hospital Universitario 12 de Octubre, Hospital Universitario La Paz, and Hospital de la Hermanas Hospitalarias de Madrid, as well as with various public and private universities. For example, his research has contributed to validating key tools in clinical neuropsychology, such as the Test de Clasificación de cartas de Wisconsin, the Trail Making Test and the Stroop test, from a neurofunctional perspective.