Department: PSICOLOGÍA BÁSICA II

Center: FACULTAD DE PSICOLOGÍA

Area: Basic Psychology

Research group: ADAPTACIÓN DINÁMICA DE SISTEMAS DE EDUCACIÓN ONLINE BASADA EN EL MODELADO DE USUARIO

Email: rcabestrero@psi.uned.es

Personal web: https://www.uned.es/universidad/docentes/psicologia/raul-...

Doctor by the UNED. Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia with the thesis Dilatación pupilar como técnica de evaluación de la carga de memoria 2003. Supervised by Dr. Antonio Crespo León.

He is member of several local and international scientific associations in the field of cognitive neuroscience and eye-movements: SEPEX (Spanish Society of Experimental Psychology); COGAIN (Communication by Gaze Interaction); EMRA (Eye Movement Researchers' Association). His research has always been linked to the study of cognition and basic psychological processes, especially attention, perception, motivation and emotion. Specifically, his work has been fundamentally centred on oculomotor registers, being his special focus of interest the study of pupillary response evoked by cognitive tasks as a mechanism to evaluate cognitive processes. He also has participated as a visiting researcher in the Cognitive Science Research Group of the National University of Ireland (Maynooth). Another area in which he has participated as a researcher has been with the aDeNu group in which he has been involved in several research projects funded in competitive public calls. Particularly, and more recently, he joined the MAMIPEC, BIG-AFF and INT2AFF projects in which he contributed with his knowledge in the field of psychophysiological records and basic psychological processes. Additionally, he has also co-operated with aDeNu research group in the realm of accessibility for people with functional diversity. Moreover, he has played as a reviewer in journals in various fields such as EJN (European Journal of Neuroscience); Cognition and Emotion; Psychophysiology; PMS (Perceptual and Motor Skills), AIED.