Manuel Martín-Loeches

Manuel Martín-Loeches is a Psychologist who received his PhD in Psychobiology at the Complutense University of Madrid (Spain), where he is now a Professor in the Psychobiology department. Using modern brain imaging techniques—namely, Computerized Electroencephalography and functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging—he has studied a large number of higher cognitive functions and processes, such as working memory, attention, visual processing, human language, religious thought, or neuroaesthetics. Pathologies in this regard have also been of interest, particularly schizophrenia and Alzheimer’s disease. Since he started his position as leader of the Cognitive Neuroscience Section at the Center UCM-ISCIII for Human Evolution and Behavior (Madrid), in 2001, he has devoted significant effort to applying knowledge derived from current advances in cognitive neuroscience to better understand the evolution of the human mind.