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The Human Brain and Cognition Lab - Cognitive and Affective Dynamics, in collaboration with researchers from Sport Science and Ghent University, analyzed how physical exertion and cognitive performance influence each other. They used Granger Causality, a technique for analyzing cause-and-effect relationships over time, to examine the connection between the two processes.

A study published in the journal Personal Relationships by researchers from the LabSex of CIMCYC analyzed the relationship between the subjective experience of orgasm (SOE) and relationship satisfaction in same-sex couples. They studied how different dimensions of SOE (i. e., affective, sensory, intimacy, and reward) in the context of sexual intercourse influence relationship satisfaction in 110 Spanish same-sex couples.

Researchers from the Psychosocial Consequences of Social Class Laboratory of the Psychology of Social Problems Research Group (HUM-289) have published an article featuring three studies that examined how preferences for justice principles influence causal reasoning about poverty and support for social protection policies targeting these groups.

The next session of the CIMCYC Sessions AI, Mind and Brain will be held on Wednesday, June 18. A paper entitled “Inferring DNN-Brain Alignment using Representational Similarity Analyses can be Problematic” will be discussed.

A study conducted by researchers from CIMCYC of the PNinsula group and the University of Otavalo/University of the Americas, compared personal and psychological characteristics of 1093 men convicted of gender violence grouped into two profiles: specialists, who have only committed violence against their partner, and generalists, who have also committed other types of crimes. The role of executive functions was also evaluated: cognitive skills such as working memory, inhibition, decision making and cognitive flexibility. All this to better understand who they are, how they think and what differentiates them, with the aim of adapting treatments to their specific needs and reducing recidivism.

Researchers at CIMCYC's LabSex have conducted a study on the validation of the SIS/SES-SF in Spain, a brief instrument for assessing the propensity for sexual excitement and inhibition in men and women.

Juan Linde-Domingo, a researcher at CIMCYC, and Casper Kerrén, from the Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences, have published an article in the journal Hippocampus. In it, they challenge the widely accepted "encoding specificity hypothesis," which states that retrieval cues must match the original encoding conditions. Instead, they propose the "Dynamic-Cueing Hypothesis." This hypothesis highlights that, since memories are dynamic and transform considerably after being encoded, the cues for retrieving them must also adapt to the current state of those memories.

CIMCYC researchers have demonstrated that the severity of gender-based violence, whether physical, sexual, or psychological, can lead to CPTSD symptoms in women survivors, and that lower levels of resilience are associated with more severe symptoms of this disorder.

Researchers of the LabSex published a study in The Journal of Sexual Medicine, in 2024, with the goal of exploring the sexual dynamics in this population group. One of the most consolidated instruments to evaluate SOE is the Orgasm Rating Scale (ORS), which assesses the orgasmic experience using 25 adjectives distributed in four factors (affective, sensory, intimacy, and reward).

Our team at Psychology of Social Problems Research Group from the Mind, Brain and Behavior Research Center (University of Granada) has been working to better understand whether, how, and under which circumstances economic inequality negatively affects people’s subjective well-being. We argue that perceptions and beliefs about economic inequality are key to understanding how living in an unequal society impacts our subjective well-being.