José Antonio Periéñez

Dr. José A. Periáñez is a neuropsychologist, researcher, and tenured professor in the Department of Experimental Psychology, Cognitive Processes, and Logopedia at the Complutense University of Madrid (UCM). With over 20 years of experience, he has taught more than 4,000 hours in official undergraduate, graduate, postgraduate, and doctorate programs in roles such as Assistant Professor, Assistant Doctor Professor, Visiting Professor, and Tenured University Professor at various Spanish universities. His main research focus has been on the study of executive functions and attentional control processes in humans. This work has had an experimental/basic aspect using neurophysiological and neuroimaging techniques such as electroencephalography, magnetoencephalography, functional magnetic resonance imaging, or transcranial magnetic stimulation. He has also developed a clinical/applied aspect focused on studying the alterations of these functions (patients with multiple sclerosis, Parkinson’s disease, traumatic brain injuries, schizophrenia, or obsessive-compulsive disorders) and on developing evidence-based assessment and intervention procedures (validation studies of tests and clinical trials). His scientific output can be summarized in more than 40 articles in indexed scientific journals, half of them in Q1, with a total of 2,144 citations, 5 books, and another 15 book chapters, supervising 8 doctoral theses. He has participated in 7 funded research projects in public and private calls, having obtained 3 research sexenios. He has collaborated with reference centers such as the 12 de Octubre University Hospital, La Paz University Hospital, or the Hospital of the 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 Wisconsin Card Sorting Test, the Trail Making Test, or the Stroop test from a neurofunctional perspective.