Beatriz Gil Gómez de Liaño

Biography

I completed my PhD in 2005 at Universidad Autónoma de Madrid (UAM) in Experimental Psychology studying attention and working memory interactions. During my Postdoc training I worked with Dr. Carlo Umiltà at Università degli Studi di Padova (2008/2009) studying attention in Traumatic Brain Injury Patients. In 2011, I worked with Dr. Molly Potter at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology-MIT (José Castillejo Scholarship, Spanish Government) studying Attention in RSVP tasks, and with Dr. Jeremy Wolfe in 2015 (Fulbright Scholarship) at the BWH-Harvard Medical School, studying working memory effects in visual search. I am also Associate Professor at UAM, teaching Methods in Psychology (currently on temporal leave). From December 2015 to January 2018 I was Vice-Dean of Research and Doctoral Studies at the School of Psychology-UAM. Also, I was awarded again with a Fulbright Scholarship as Senior Researcher (Salvador de Madariaga) for 6 months, from February to July 2018 in the Wolfe Lab-BWH-Harvard Medical to continue my studies in visual search. I have also been awarded with a 3-year Marie Curie Fellowship by the European Commission, both at the University of Cambridge and at the BWH-Harvard Medical School in the Wolfe lab. I moved the MSCA Fellowship for the last year (2020-2021) to the Complutense University of Madrid, where I am currently working at the Lab of Cognitive and Computational Neuroscience. In the MSCA project we are studying attention and working memory in children. My main research interest nowadays is to understand how attentional mechanisms operate in a developmental brain, and how they change in typical and atypical development.
In my personal life, I have a wonderful family with David and our three kids, two boys of 13 and 11 years old, and a 8 year old daughter.

Research Interests

My main research interest is to understand how attention and working memory function in visual search tasks; how our cognitive system is able to perform visual search tasks in different types of environments from lab simulated conditions to real world scenes and daily situations during lifetime. My current projects are focused in children. I would like to understand when and how those mechanisms start and operate in a developmental brain. Essentially, I would like to know how they change through typical and atypical attentional development in order to understand how we can modulate them to design new treatments to improve them. To do this, we use experimental methods, eye recording and magnetoencephalography techniques.

My personal webpage is https://sites.google.com/site/bgilgomezdelianno/home

Publications

2020

Pascual-Ezama, D., Prelec, D., Muñoz-García, A., & Gil-Gómez de Liaño, B. (2020). Cheaters, liars, or both? A new classification of dishonesty profiles. Psychological Science.

Gil-Gómez de Liaño, B., Quirós-Godoy, M., Pérez-Hernández, E., & Wolfe, J. M. (2020). Efficiency and accuracy of visual search develop at different rates from early childhood through early adulthood. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review. https://doi.org/10.3758/s13423-020-01712-z PDF

2019

Gil-Gómez de Liaño, B., Wiegand, I., Eimer, M., Võ, MLH, García-Delgado, L. (2019). Visual Search: From Youth to Old Age, from the Lab to the World (2019). Journal of Vision 19 (10), 7b-7b (Symposium at the VSS 2019, see here for details)

Gil-Gómez de Liaño, B. Visual Search in children: What we know so far, and new challenges in the real world (2019). Journal of Vision 19 (10), 7c-7c (Symposium at the VSS 2019, see here for details)

Gil-Gómez de Liaño, B., Pérez-Hernández, E., Quirós-Godoy, M., & Wolfe, J. M. (2019). Is higher susceptibility to attentional deficits in children related to lower susceptibility to Inattentional Blindness in visual search, Journal of Vision 19 (10), 56c-56c (conference abstract).

Muñoz-García, Wolfe, J. M., & Gil-Gómez de Liaño, B. (2019). Intelligence, Impulsivity and Selective Attention have something to tell us about Hybrid Foraging performance. Journal of Vision 19 (10), 234c-234c (conference abstract).

Muñoz-Izquierdo, N., Gil-Gómez de Liaño, B., Rin-Sánchez, F. D. & Pascual-Ezama, D. (2019). Cheating and altruism by discipline. Dishonesty in behavioral economics, 163-181.

2018

Quirós-Godoy, M., Pérez-Hernández, E., Cain, M., Wolfe, J.M., Gil-Gómez de Liaño, B. (2018). Individual Differences in Visual Search and Foraging in children. Journal of Vision 18 (10),637-637 (conference abstract)

Gil-Gómez de Liaño, B.,Quirós-Godoy, M., Pérez-Hernández, E., Cain, M. & Wolfe, J. M. (2018). Understanding Visual Search and Foraging in Cognitive Development. Journal of Vision 18 (10), 635-635.(conference abstract)

Muñoz-García, A., Cain, M., Wolfe, J.M., & Gil-Gómez de Liaño, B.(2018). Hybrid Foraging Performance is Related to Fluid Intelligence. Journal of Vision 18 (10),291-291.(conference abstract)

Pascual-Ezama, D., Paredes, M., Sanchez-Martín, M.P., Gil-Gómez de Liaño, B.(2018). Shorter and easier is more useful: A longitudinal analysis of how financial report enforcement affects individual investors. Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Economics, 74,29-37.

2017

Quirós-Godoy, M., Botella, J., & Gil-Gómez de Liaño, B. (2017). A concurrent working memory load task does not impair visual selective attention: A meta-analysis. Journal of Vision 17 (10), 967-967. (conference abstract)

Gil-Gómez de Liaño, B.,Drew, T., Rin, D., & Wolfe, J. M. (2017). Target prevalence in a visual search task differentially modulates lure effects from visual working memory. Journal of Vision 17 (10), 73-73. (conference abstract)

2016

Gil-Gómez de Liaño, B., Stablum, F., & Umiltà, C. (2016). Can concurrent memory load reduce distraction? A replication study and beyond. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General. 145(1), e1-e12.

Gil-Gómez de Liaño, B., Drew, T., Rin, D., & Wolfe, J. M. (2016). Paradoxical speeding of visual search by the inclusion of WM and LTM lures. Journal of Vision, 16, 342. doi:10.1167/16.12.342. (conference abstract)

2015

Pascual-Ezama, D., Gil-Gómez de Liaño, B. & Scandroglio, B. (2015). El papel de la carga emocional de la inestabilidad en el comportamiento de inversión. Estudios de Psicología. 36(3), 668-682.

Gil-Gómez de Liaño, B., Drew, T., Rin, D., & Wolfe, J. M. (2015). Active working memory tasks interfere with inefficient search but NOT with efficient search, guided by bottom-up salience. Journal of Vision, 15(12), 62. (conference abstract)

Pascual-Ezama, D. Fosgaard, T.R. Cardenas, J.C. Kujal, P. Veszteg, R. Gil-Gómez de Liaño, B. Gunia, B. Weichselbaumer, D. Hilken, K. Antinyan, A. Delnoij, J. Proestakis, A. Tira, M.D. Pratomo, Y. Jaber-López, T. and Brañas-Garza, P. (2015). Context dependent cheating: Experimental evidence from 16 countries. Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 116, 379-386.

Pascual-Ezama D, Dunfield D, Gil-Gómez de Liaño B, Prelec D (2015) Peer Effects in Unethical Behavior: Standing or Reputation? PLoS ONE 10(4): e0122305. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0122305.

2014

Gil-Gómez de Liaño, B., Drew, T., Quirós, M., & Wolfe, J. M. (2014). Updating for free? Span and Updating tasks modulate Visual Search in a similar manner. Journal of Vision, 14(10), 917.(conference abstract)

Gil-Gómez de Liaño, B., Potter, M. C. & Rodríguez, C. (2014). Working memory effects in speeded RSVP tasks. Psychological Research, 78(1), 124-135. DOI 10.1007/s00426-013-0479-7

Pascual-Ezama D. Scandroglio B. & Gil-Gomez de Liaño B. (2014). Can we predict individual investors’ behavior in stock markets? A psychological approach. Universitas Psychologica, 13 (1), 25-35.

2012

Gil-Gómez de Liaño, B., León, O. G. & Pascual-Ezama, D. (2012). Research participation improves student’s exam performance. The Spanish Journal of Psychology. 15, 2. 544-550. http://dx.doi.org/10.5209/rev_SJOP.2012.v15.n2.38865

Gil-Gómez de Liaño B. & Pascual-Ezama, D. (2012). Métodos Alternativos en el Estudio de la Validez de Contenido: el Método Delphi. Anales de Psicología, 28(3), 1011-1020. http://dx.doi.org/10.6018/analesps.28.3.156211

Pascual-Ezama D. Gil-Gomez de Liaño, B. and Scandroglio B. (2012). Economía, psicología e inversión en bolsa: análisis de las variables que participan en el proceso de toma de decisiones. International Journal of Psychologycal Research 5(1), 5-17

2011

Gil-Gómez de Liaño, B., Botella, J., & Pascual-Ezama, D. (2011). The types of stimuli loaded in memory modulate its effects on visual search. Journal of Cognitive Psychology, 23(5). 531-542. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/20445911.2011.542747

Botella, J., Privado, J., Gil-Gómez de Liaño, B. & Suero, M. (2011). Illusory Conjunctions reflect the time course of the Attentional Blink. Attention, Perception & Psychophysics. 73, 1361-1373. DOI 10.3758/s 13414-011-01120-z

Gil-Gómez de Liaño, B. y Botella, J. (2011). Concurrent memory load can make RSVP search more efficient. Psicológica, 32, 13-30.

2010

Gil-Gómez de Liaño, B., Umiltà, C., Stablum, F., Tebaldi, F., y Cantagallo, A. (2010) Attentional distractor interference may be diminished by concurrent working memory load in normal participants and traumatic brain injury patients. Brain & Cognition, 74(3); 298-305. doi:10.1016/j.bandc.2010.08.009

Gil-Gómez de Liaño, B. y Botella, J. (2010). Effects of memory load in Visual Search. Psicothema, 22(4), 725-731.

Pascual-Ezama, D., San Martín, R., Gil-Gómez de Liaño, B. y Scandroglio, B. (2010). Elaboración y validación de una escala sobre las principales variables que afectan a la conducta de los inversores individuales en los mercados bursátiles. Psicothema, 22(4), 1010-1017.

Pascual-Ezama, D., Pavonni M. & Gil-Gomez de Liaño B. (2010). Inversiones Financieras y comportamiento del inversor: Behavioral Finance. Análisis Financiero Internacional, 140. 17-29.

Pascual-Ezama, D., Gil-Gómez de Liaño, B. & Bastianelli, A. (2010). Integración y participación de los voluntarios en las entidades no lucrativas: un estudio experimental. Cuadernos Sociales, 10, 87-98.

2009, 2008 and before

Gil Gomez de Liaño, B.; Pascual Ezama, D.; Filipponi, L. & Spoto, A (2009). Modelo de organización para la correcta adecuación voluntario-tarea. Cuadernos Sociales, 9, 69-82.

Botella, J., & Rodríguez, C., Rubio, M. E., Valle-Inclán, F., & Gil-Gómez de Liaño, B. (2008). Event-related potentials and illusory conjunctions in the time domain. Psicológica, 29(2) 153-169.

Gil-Gómez de Liaño, B & Pascual-Ezama, D. (2008). La Relación entre la Personalidad y la Satisfacción en el Campo del Voluntariado. Cuadernos Sociales, 8, 75-84.

Pascual-Ezama, D., Gil-Gómez de Liaño, B. (2007). Motivación y Personalidad en el campo del voluntariado: orientación hacia la adecuación voluntario-tarea. Cuadernos Sociales, 7, 61-70.

Gil-Gómez de Liaño, B. & Botella, J. (2003): Diferencias en el efecto de Priming Negativo en la edad: un metaanalisis. Revista Española de Geriatría y Gerontología. 38 (3), 161-169. Beltrán Báguena Award of the Spanish Society of Gerontology (SEGG) for the Best Publication in the Spanish Journal of Gerontology in 2003

Gil-Gómez de Liaño, B (2000): William McDougall: un análisis de su vida y obra. Revista de Historia de la Psicología. 21( 2-3), 693-706.