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Visiting Research Fellow
- Cognitive Science
- Department of Philosophy
Contact information
E-mail manuel.olivalucs.luse
Visiting address
Helgonavägen 3, Lund
Postal address
Box 192, 221 00 Lund
Internal post code 30
I am a PhD student with interest in visual selective attention, perceptual load, and pupillometry. In particular, I study how emotions, arousal and the social context can influence how we select and process information. Within my doctoral studies I conducted experiments on how the social context affects the attentional control of saccadic responses. We found that the mere presence of others prolongs the preparation of saccades that depend from attentional mediation. In a second study we explored how the social context influences learning outcomes and visual attention in learning tasks (under review). In a third study I investigated the role of the LC-NE system during attentional selective task portraying low and high perceptual load. Interestingly, pupil size predicted response times only when selective attention was possible. In our last study, we investigated whether pupil size fluctuations could be used to trace both cognitive and emotional dimensions of affective processing.
Research
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Books (1)
Articles (4)
- Oliva, M. (2019). Pupil size and search performance in low and high perceptual load. Cognitive, Affective and Behavioral Neuroscience, 19, 366-376. Psychonomic Society.
- Oliva, M. & Anikin, A. (2018). Pupil dilation reflects the time course of emotion recognition in human vocalizations. Scientific Reports, 8. Nature Publishing Group.
- Oliva, M., Niehorster, D. C., Jarodzka, H. & Holmqvist, K. (2017). Influence of coactors on saccadic and manual responses. i-Perception, 8. Pion Ltd.
- Oliva, M. (2012). Pupil dilation : a fingerprint of temporal selection during the “attentional blink". Frontiers in Psychology. Frontiers Media S. A..
Conference contributions (5)
- Oliva, M., Anikin, A. & Balkenius, C. (2017). Pupil dilation reflects the time course of perceptual emotion selection. In Arweström Jansson, A., Axelsson, A., Andreasson, R. & Billing, E. (Eds.) Skövde University Studies in Informatics, Proceedings of the 13th SweCog Conference (pp. 15-15), 2017. University of Skövde.
- Oliva, M., Niehorster, D. C., Jarodzka, H. & Holmqvist, K. (2016). Social presence influence saccadic control.
- Oliva, M., Niehorster, D. C., Wallin, A., Balkenius, C., Holmqvist, K. & Jarodzka, H. (2016). The social brain goes to school : Eye movements, instructional design and the classroom effect.
- Oliva, M., Niehorster, D. C., Wallin, A., Balkenius, C., Holmqvist, K. & Jarodzka, H. (2016). The social brain goes to school : Eye movements, instructional design and the classroom effect.
- Oliva, M., Niehorster, D. C., Jarodzka, H. & Holmqvist, K. (2015). The presence of others : exploring the effects of a social context on eye movements. Journal of Eye Movement Research, 8, 41-41. European Group for Eye Movement Research.

Visiting Research Fellow
- Cognitive Science
- Department of Philosophy
Contact information
E-mail manuel.olivalucs.luse
Visiting address
Helgonavägen 3, Lund
Postal address
Box 192, 221 00 Lund
Internal post code 30