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Líneas de investigación
La investigación de nuestro laboratorio se centra principalmente en descubrir los principios fundamentales que rigen la estructura y función de los circuitos neuronales, cómo estos circuitos integran eficientemente cualquier información y cómo esta información se utiliza para formar juicios y tomar decisiones.
Utilizamos un enfoque que combina experimentos y modelos matemáticos para investigar una amplia gama de fenómenos: desde el compromiso entre la precisión, o agudeza, y el gasto metabólico en las vías sensoriales tempranas, hasta los procesos mediante los cuales la razón, la intuición y los factores sociales afectivos influyen en nuestras creencias, juicios y decisiones.
Nuestro objetivo final es encontrar principios canónicos mediante los cuales el cerebro procesa información de cualquier tipo y buscar formas de utilizar estos principios para guiar el desarrollo de nuevas tecnologías de información y comunicación y una nueva generación de robots y autómatas (automóviles sin conductor, comunicación a larga distancia, drones, etc.) capaces de tomar decisiones semejantes a las que tomaríamos los humanos en escenarios complejos.
Publicaciones relevantes
- A Retino-retinal Projection Guided by Unc5c Emerged in Species with Retinal Waves Murcia-Belmonte V, Coca Y, Vegar C, Negueruela S, de Juan Romero C, Valiño AJ, Sala S, DaSilva R, Kania A, Borrell V, Martinez LM, Erskine L, Herrera E Current Biology 2019 29(7):1149 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.2019.02.052
- How Inhibitory Circuits in the Thalamus Serve Vision Hirsch JA, Wang X, Sommer FT, Martinez LM Annu Rev Neurosci 2015 38:309 https://doi.org/10.1146/annurev-neuro-071013-014229
- Statistical Wiring of Thalamic Receptive Fields Optimizes Spatial Sampling of the Retinal Image Martinez LM, Molano-Mazon M, Wang X, Sommer FT, Hirsch JA Neuron 2014 81(4):943 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuron.2013.12.014
- Contact repulsion controls the dispersion and final distribution of Cajal-Retzius cells Villar-Cerviño V, Molano-Mazon M, Catchpole T, Valdeolmillos M, Henkemeyer M, Martinez LM, Borrell V, Marin O Neuron 2013 77(3):457 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuron.2012.11.023
- Archaeologiques of sight: The visual world fosters the engagement between doing, seeing, and thinking. Felipe Criado-Boado, Luis M. Martínez, Manuel J. Blanco, Diego Alonso-Pablos, Jadranka Verdonkschot Journal of Anthropological Archaeology. 2024 73: 101568 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jaa.2023.101568
- Gazed Pottery: an Archaeometric-Cognitive Approach to Material Culture Visuality. Felipe Criado-Boado, Luis M. Martínez, Manuel J. Blanco, Diego Alonso-Pablos, Yolanda Porto, Elena del Barrio-Álvarez Journal of Archaeological Science. 2023 154: 105770 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jas.2023.105770
- Frequency-domain analysis of fNIRS fluctuations induced by rhythmic mental arithmetic. Molina-Rodríguez, S., Mirete-Fructuoso, M., Martínez, L.M., Ibañez-Ballesteros, J. Psychophysiology. 2022 59 (10): e14063 https://doi.org/10.1111/psyp.14063
- Materialities, Space, Mind: archaeology of visual cognition Millan-Pascual R, Martinez LM, Alonso-Pablos D, Blanco MJ, Criado-Boado F Trabajos de Prehistoria 2021 78(1):7 https://doi.org/10.3989/tp.2021.12262
- Subclinical social anxiety in healthy young adults: Cortisol and subjective anxiety in response to acute stress Mirete M, Molina S, Villada C, Hidalgo V, Salvadoir A An Psicol-Spain 2021 37(3):432 https://doi.org/10.6018/analesps.483411
- The Acquisition of Culturally Patterned Attention Styles Under Active Inference Constant A, Tschantz ADD, Millidge B, Criado-Boado F, Martinez LM, Müeller J, Clark A Front Neurorobot 2021 15:729665 https://doi.org/10.3389/fnbot.2021.729665
- A Retino-retinal Projection Guided by Unc5c Emerged in Species with Retinal Waves Murcia-Belmonte V, Coca Y, Vegar C, Negueruela S, de Juan Romero C, Valiño AJ, Sala S, DaSilva R, Kania A, Borrell V, Martinez LM, Erskine L, Herrera E Current Biology 2019 29(7):1149 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.2019.02.052
- Coevolution of visual behaviour, the material world and social complexity, depicted by the eye-tracking of archaeological objects in humans Criado-Boado F, Alonso-Pablos D, Blanco MJ, Porto Y, Rodríguez-Paz A, Cabrejas E, Del Barrio-Álvarez E, Martínez LM Scientifc Reports 2019 9(1):3985 https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-019-39661-w
- Image Sharpness and Contrast Tuning in the Early Visual Pathway Sanchez E, Ferreiroa R, Arias A, Martinez LM Int J Neural Syst 2017 27(8):1750045 https://doi.org/10.1142/S0129065717500459
- Understanding the Role of Mitochondria Distribution in Calcium Dynamics and Secretion in Bovine Chromaffin Cells Gil, Amparo; Gonzalez-Velez, Virginia; Villanueva, Jose; Gutierrez, Luis M. Modeling Cellular Systems 2017 11:107 https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-45833-5_5
- How Inhibitory Circuits in the Thalamus Serve Vision Hirsch JA, Wang X, Sommer FT, Martinez LM Annu Rev Neurosci 2015 38:309 https://doi.org/10.1146/annurev-neuro-071013-014229
- Brain and art. Segev I, Martinez LM, Zatorre RJ Front Hum Neurosci 2014 8:465 https://doi.org/10.3389/fnhum.2014.00465
- Flowers and weeds: cell-type specific pruning in the developing visual thalamus Benjumeda I, Molano-Mazon M, Martinez LM BMC Biol 2014 12:10 https://doi.org/10.1186/1741-7007-12-3
- Statistical Wiring of Thalamic Receptive Fields Optimizes Spatial Sampling of the Retinal Image Martinez LM, Molano-Mazon M, Wang X, Sommer FT, Hirsch JA Neuron 2014 81(4):943 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuron.2013.12.014
- Choosing in Freedom or Forced to Choose? Introspective Blindness to Psychological Forcing in Stage-Magic Shalom DE, Serro MGD, Giaconia M, Martinez LM, Rieznik A, Sigman M PLoS One 2013 8(3):e58254 https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0058254
- Contact repulsion controls the dispersion and final distribution of Cajal-Retzius cells Villar-Cerviño V, Molano-Mazon M, Catchpole T, Valdeolmillos M, Henkemeyer M, Martinez LM, Borrell V, Marin O Neuron 2013 77(3):457 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuron.2012.11.023
- Misdirection – past, present, and the future Kuhn G, Martinez LM Front Hum Neurosci 2012 5:172 https://doi.org/10.3389/fnhum.2011.00172
- A new angle on the role of feedfoward inputs in the generation of orientation selectivity in primary visual cortex Martinez LM J Physiol-London 2011 589(12):2921 https://doi.org/10.1113/jphysiol.2011.209031
