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Overview

Miguel A. Vadillo is affiliated with the Autonomous University of Madrid in Spain. Their research primarily covers Neuroscience and Psychology, with a significant focus on Cognitive Neuroscience and Experimental and Cognitive Psychology as subfields. Applied Psychology, Social Psychology, and General Decision Sciences are additional areas within their research scope.

The scientist's work spans several key topics, including:

  • Neural and Behavioral Psychology Studies
  • Behavioral Health and Interventions
  • Decision-Making and Behavioral Economics
  • Visual perception and processing mechanisms
  • Neural dynamics and brain function
  • Face Recognition and Perception
  • Cognitive Abilities and Testing

Miguel A. Vadillo has contributed to multiple publication venues with a high frequency of articles appearing in:

  • Journal of Experimental Psychology Human Perception & Performance
  • Psychonomic Bulletin & Review
  • Nature Human Behaviour
  • Journal of Cognition
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)

Frequently collaborating researchers include David R. Shanks, David Luque, Tamara Giménez-Fernández, Darías Holgado, and Daniel Sanabria.

Their recent published papers document a range of psychological and cognitive research topics. Notable papers include:

  • "Testing (quizzing) boosts classroom learning: A systematic and meta-analytic review." (2021, Psychological Bulletin)
  • "To which world regions does the valence-dominance model of social perception apply?" (2021, Nature Human Behaviour)
  • "An umbrella review of randomized control trials on the effects of physical exercise on cognition" (2023, Nature Human Behaviour)
  • "Please don't stop the music: A meta-analysis of the cognitive and academic benefits of instrumental musical training in childhood and adolescence" (2022, Educational Research Review)
  • "Is project-based learning effective among kindergarten and elementary students? A systematic review" (2021, PLoS ONE)

Best Publications

  • Justify your alpha

    Daniel Lakens;Federico G. Adolfi;Federico G. Adolfi;Casper J. Albers;Farid Anvari

  • The Psychological Science Accelerator: Advancing Psychology through a Distributed Collaborative Network

    Hannah Moshontz;Lorne Campbell;Charles R. Ebersole;Hans Ijzerman

  • Underpowered samples, false negatives, and unconscious learning

    Miguel A. Vadillo;Emmanouil Konstantinidis;David R. Shanks

  • Testing (quizzing) boosts classroom learning: A systematic and meta-analytic review

    Chunliang Yang;Liang Luo;Miguel A. Vadillo;Rongjun Yu

  • Researching Mental Health Disorders in the Era of Social Media: Systematic Review.

    Akkapon Wongkoblap;Miguel A Vadillo;Vasa Curcin

  • Neuromyths in Education: Prevalence among Spanish Teachers and an Exploration of Cross-Cultural Variation.

    Marta Ferrero;Pablo Garaizar;Miguel A. Vadillo

  • To which world regions does the valence–dominance model of social perception apply?

    Benedict C. Jones;Lisa M. DeBruine;Jessica K. Flake;Marco Tullio Liuzza

  • Illusions of causality: How they bias our everyday thinking and how they could be reduced

    Helena Matute;Fernando Blanco;Ion Yarritu;Marcos Díaz-Lago

  • Illusions of causality at the heart of pseudoscience.

    Helena Matute;Ion Yarritu;Miguel A. Vadillo

  • The Bitter Truth About Sugar and Willpower: The Limited Evidential Value of the Glucose Model of Ego Depletion.

    Miguel A. Vadillo;Natalie Gold;Magda Osman

  • The procedural learning deficit hypothesis of language learning disorders: we see some problems

    Gillian West;Miguel A. Vadillo;David R. Shanks;Charles Hulme

  • Illusion of control: The role of personal involvement.

    Ion Yarritu;Helena Matute;Miguel A. Vadillo

  • Making the uncontrollable seem controllable: The role of action in the illusion of control

    Fernando Blanco;Helena Matute;Miguel A. Vadillo

  • An umbrella review of randomized control trials on the effects of physical exercise on cognition

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  • Romance, risk, and replication: Can consumer choices and risk-taking be primed by mating motives?

    David R. Shanks;Miguel A. Vadillo;Benjamin Riedel;Ashley Clymo

  • Does Mindfulness Meditation Training Enhance Executive Control? A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis of Randomized Controlled Trials in Adults

    Luis Cásedas;Miguel A. Vadillo;Juan Lupiáñez

  • Registered Replication Report: Dijksterhuis and van Knippenberg (1998):

    Michael O'Donnell;Leif D Nelson;Evi Ackermann;Balazs Aczel

  • A systematic review and meta-analysis of the effects of transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS) on episodic memory

    Giulia Galli;Miguel A. Vadillo;Miroslav Sirota;Matteo Feurra

  • Learned predictiveness influences rapid attentional capture: evidence from the dot probe task.

    Mike E. Le Pelley;Miguel Vadillo;David Luque

  • Predictions and causal estimations are not supported by the same associative structure.

    Miguel A. Vadillo;Helena Matute

  • Interactive effects of the probability of the cue and the probability of the outcome on the overestimation of null contingency

    Fernando Blanco;Helena Matute;Miguel A. Vadillo

Frequent Co-Authors

Helena Matute
Helena Matute University of Deusto
David R. Shanks
David R. Shanks University College London
Jan De Houwer
Jan De Houwer Ghent University
Mike E. Le Pelley
Mike E. Le Pelley University of New South Wales
Juan Lupiáñez
Juan Lupiáñez University of Granada
José C. Perales
José C. Perales University of Granada
William J. Chopik
William J. Chopik Michigan State University
Stefan Stieger
Stefan Stieger Karl Landsteiner University of Health Sciences
Lisa M. DeBruine
Lisa M. DeBruine University of Glasgow
Zoltan Dienes
Zoltan Dienes University of Sussex

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