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      How the speaker’s emotional facial expressions may affect language comprehension 

      Hernández-Gutiérrez, David; Muñoz, Francisco; Khosrowtaj, Zahra; Sommer, Werner; Jiménez-Ortega, Laura; Rahman, Rasha Abdel; Sánchez-García, José; Casado, Pilar; Fondevila, Sabela; Espuny, Javier; Martín-Loeches, Manuel (Taylor & Francis, 2023)
      During communicative face-to-face interactions, emotional expressions are typically processed along with auditory speech. Although previous research has demonstrated the interaction between emotion and linguistic processes, ...
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      Subliminal Priming Effects of Masked Social Hierarchies During a Categorization Task: An Event-Related Brain Potentials Study 

      Fondevila, Sabela; Hernández-Gutiérrez, David; Espuny, Javier; Jimenez-Ortega, Laura; Casado, Pilar; Muñoz Muñoz, Francisco; Sánchez-García, José; Martín-Loeches, Manuel (Frontiers, 2022)
      Evidence so far shows that status detection increases attentional resources, especially for high hierarchies. However, little is known about the effects of masked social status cues on cognition. Here, we explore the ...
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      The bigger your pupils, the better my comprehension: an ERP study of how pupil size and gaze of the speaker affect syntactic processing 

      Jiménez-Ortega, Laura; Casado-Palacios, María; Rubianes, Miguel; Martínez-Mejias, Mario; Casado, Pilar; Fondevila, Sabela; Hernández-Gutiérrez, David; Muñoz, Francisco; Sánchez-García, José; Martín-Loeches, Manuel (OXFORD, 2024)
      Gaze direction and pupil dilation play a critical role in communication and social interaction due to their ability to redirect and capture our attention and their relevance for emotional information. The present study ...