Investigador Doctor

Dra. Kenia Martínez Rodríguez

kmartinez@hggm.es

Investigador Doctor
Dra. Kenia
Martínez Rodríguez
kmartinez@hggm.es

Bio

Previous And Current Education

1999 – 2003: Four year Psychology degree. Universidad de la Habana, Cuba.
2003 – 2008: Psychology Graduate Student. UAM, Spain.
2011: Advanced Studies Diploma, Clinic and Health Psychology. UAM, Spain.
2008 – 2014: Ph. D. Student, Clinic and Health Psychology. UAM, Spain.

Teaching and Research Experience

Teaching

2009 – 2013: Lectureship in the Department of Basic and Health Psychology, UAM, Spain.
2015 – present: Lectureship in the Department of Psychology, European University of Madrid, Spain.

Research

2007 – 2008: Pre-graduate research assistant. Department of Basic Psychology of the UAM (Spain). Supervised by Dr. Roberto Colom.
2009 – 2013: Pre-doctoral research fellow. Department of Basic Psychology of the UAM (Spain). Supervised by Prof. Roberto Colom
2009 – 2013: Research in Alzheimer disease. CIEN Foundation (Spain). Supervised by Prof. Roberto Colom and Dr. J. Álvarez-Linera.
2012: Research exchange about neuroimaging techniques Laboratory of Neuroimaging (LONI), UCLA, Los Angeles (USA), Supervised by Dr. Paul M. Thompson.
2013: Research exchange about neuroimaging techniques Laboratory of Neuroimaging (LONI), USC, Los Angeles (USA), Supervised by Dr. Paul M. Thompson.
 

Grants

2006 –2007: Excellence Grant. Supported by the Community of Madrid.
2007-2008: Pre-graduate research assistant grant (Beca de Colaboración). Supported by the Ministry of Education.
2009-2013: Pre-doctoral fellowship (Formación de Profesorado Universitario - FPU). Supported by Ministry of Education.
2015-present: Post-doctoral fellowship (Juan de la Cierva). Supported by Ministry of Economy.
 

2002 –2005: Working Memory and Factor g. Supported by Supported by Spanish Ministry of Science and Technology. Principal investigator: Prof. R. Colom.
2006 – 2009: Neuro-anatomical basis of cognitive ability. Supported by Spanish Ministry of Education (ref.   SEJ2006-07890). Principal investigator: Prof. R. Colom.
2011 – 2014: Fronto-parietal network and changes in cognitive performance. Supported by Spanish Ministry of Education (ref. PSI2010- 20364). Principal investigator: Dr. R. Colom.
2011 – 2014: Changes in emotional working memory performance and underlaying neural mechanisms after an adaptative cognitive training. Universidad Autónoma de Madrid (UAM), Spain. (ref.CEMU-2012-004). Principal investigator: Dr. L. Carretié

Selected Publications

  • Dienke J Bos, Jessica Merchán-Naranjo, Kenia Martínez, Laura Pina-Camacho, Ivan Balsa, Leticia Boada, Hugo Schnack, Bob Oranje, Manuel Desco, Celso Arango, Mara Parellada, Sarah Durston, Joost Janssen (2015). Reduced Gyrification Is Related to Reduced Interhemispheric Connectivity in Autism Spectrum Disorders. Journal of the American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry 54 (8), 668-676.
     
  • Ana Beatriz Solana, Kenia Martínez, Juan Antonio Hernández-Tamames, Victoria San Antonio-Arce, Rafael Toledano, Irene García-Morales, Juan Alvárez-Linera, Antonio Gil-Nágel, Francisco del Pozo (2015). Altered brain rhythms and functional network disruptions involved in patients with generalized fixation-off epilepsy. Brain imaging and behavior, 1-14.
     
  • Kenia Martínez, Sarah K Madsen, Anand A Joshi, Shantanu H Joshi, Francisco J Román, Julio Villalon‐Reina, Miguel Burgaleta, Sherif Karama, Joost Janssen, Eugenio Marinetto, Manuel Desco, Paul M Thompson, Roberto Colom (2015). Reproducibility of brain‐cognition relationships using three cortical surface‐based protocols: An exhaustive analysis based on cortical thickness. Human Brain Mapping 36 (8), 3227-3245.
     
  • Susana Carmona, Elseline Hoekzema, Francisco X Castellanos, David García‐García, Agustín Lage‐Castellanos, Koene RA Van Dijk, Francisco J Navas‐Sánchez, Kenia Martínez, Manuel Desco, Jorge Sepulcre (2015). Sensation‐to‐cognition cortical streams in attention‐deficit/hyperactivity disorder. Human brain mapping, 36 (7), 2544-2557.
     
  • José Ángel Pineda-Pardo, Kenia Martínez, Ana Beatriz Solana, Juan Antonio Hernández-Tamames, Roberto Colom, Francisco del Pozo (2015). Disparate connectivity for structural and functional networks is revealed when physical location of the connected nodes is considered. Brain topography, 28 (2), 187-196.
     
  • Francisco J Román, María J García-Rubio, Jesús Privado, Dominique Kessel, Sara López-Martín, Kenia Martínez, Pei-Chun Shih, Manuel Tapia, Juan Manuel Serrano, Luis Carretié, Roberto Colom (2015). Adaptive working memory training reveals a negligible effect of emotional stimuli over cognitive processing. Personality and Individual Differences, 74, 165-170.
     
  • Sergio Escorial, Francisco J Román, Kenia Martínez, Miguel Burgaleta, Sherif Karama, Roberto Colom (2015). Sex differences in neocortical structure and cognitive performance: A surface-based morphometry study. NeuroImage, 104, 355-365.
     
  • Francisco J Román, Francisco J Abad, Sergio Escorial, Miguel Burgaleta, Kenia Martínez, Juan Álvarez‐Linera, María Ángeles Quiroga, Sherif Karama, Richard J Haier, Roberto Colom (2014). Reversed hierarchy in the brain for general and specific cognitive abilities: A morphometric analysis. Human brain mapping, 35(8), 3805-3818.
     
  • Miguel Burgaleta, Penny A MacDonald, Kenia Martínez, Francisco J Roman, Juan Álvarez‐Linera, Ana Ramos González, Sherif Karama, Roberto Colom (2014). Subcortical regional morphology correlates with fluid and spatial intelligence. Human brain mapping, 35(5), 1957-1968.
     
  • Miguel Burgaleta, Jason L Stein, Kenia Martínez, Francisco J Román, Jesús Privado, Sergio Escorial, Juan Álvarez-Linera, Sherif Karama, Paul M Thompson, Roberto Colom (2014). Cortical and subcortical correlates of intraindividual variability in reaction time. Personality and Individual Differences 60, S28.
     
  • Kenia Martínez, Julio Villalon-Reina, José A Pineda, Dominique  Kessel, Anand Joshi, Kristian Eschenburg, Neda Jahanshad, Francisco J Román, Miguel Burgaleta, Paul M Thompson, Roberto Colom (2014). Individual differences in general/fluid intelligence are evoked by functional integration and the efficiency of long-distance connections in the brain. Personality and Individual Differences 60, S32.
     
  • Kenia Martinez, Anand A Joshi, Sarah K Madsen, Shantanu Joshi, Sherif Karama, Francisco J Roman, Julio Villalon-Reina, Miguel Burgaleta, Paul M Thompson, Roberto Colom (2014). Reproducibility of brain-cognition relationships using different cortical surface-based analysis protocols. Biomedical Imaging (ISBI), IEEE 11th International Symposium on, 1019-1022.
     
  • Kenia Martínez, Ana Beatriz Solana, Miguel Burgaleta, Juan Antonio Hernández‐Tamames, Juan Álvarez‐Linera, Francisco J Román, Eva Alfayate, Jesús Privado, Sergio Escorial, María A Quiroga, Sherif Karama, Pierre Bellec, Roberto Colom (2013). Changes in resting‐state functionally connected parietofrontal networks after videogame practice. Human brain mapping 34 (12), 3143-3157.
     
  • Roberto Colom, Francisco J Román, Francisco J Abad, Pei Chun Shih, Jesús Privado, Manuel Froufe, Sergio Escorial, Kenia Martínez, Miguel Burgaleta, MA Quiroga, Sherif Karama, Richard J Haier, Paul M Thompson, Susanne M Jaeggi (2013). Adaptive n-back training does not improve fluid intelligence at the construct level: Gains on individual tests suggest that training may enhance visuospatial processing. Intelligence 41 (5), 712-727.
     
  • Roberto Colom, Miguel Burgaleta, Francisco J Román, Sherif Karama, Juan Álvarez-Linera, Francisco J Abad, Kenia Martínez, Ma Ángeles Quiroga, Richard J Haier (2013). Neuroanatomic overlap between intelligence and cognitive factors: Morphometry methods provide support for the key role of the frontal lobes. Neuroimage 72, 143-152.
     
  • Roberto Colom, Jason L Stein, Priya Rajagopalan, Kenia Martínez, David Hermel, Yalin Wang, Juan Álvarez-Linera, Miguel Burgaleta, Mª Ángeles Quiroga, Pei Chun Shih, Paul M Thompson (2013). Hippocampal structure and human cognition: Key role of spatial processing and evidence supporting the efficiency hypothesis in females. Intelligence 41 (2), 129-140.
     
  • Kenia Martínez, Julio Villalon-Reina, Dominique Kessel, Anand Joshi, José A Pineda, Neda Jahanshad, Talia Nir, Kristian Eschenburg, Francisco J Román, Miguel Burgaleta, Ana B Solana, M Ángeles Quiroga, Roberto Colom, Paul M Thompson (2013). Exploratory factor analysis of brain networks reveals sub-networks related to cognitive performance. Biomedical Imaging (ISBI), 2013 IEEE 10th International Symposium on, 608-611.
     
  • José Ángel Pineda Pardo, K Martínez, Ana Beatriz Solana Sánchez, Elena Molina, Roberto Colom, JM Buldú, JA Hernández Tamames, Francisco del Pozo Guerrero (2013). Anatomo-functional organization in brain networks. En: "Dynamics Days Europe", 03/06/2013 - 07/06/2013, Madrid, Spain. p. 56.
     
  • Roberto Colom, Mª Ángeles Quiroga, Ana Beatriz Solana, Miguel Burgaleta, Francisco J Roman, Jesus Privado, Sergio Escorial, Kenia Martinez, Juan Alvarez-Linera, Eva Alfayate, Felipe Garcia, Claude Lepage, Juan Antonio Hernandez-Tamames, Sherif Karama (2012). Structural changes after videogame practice related to a brain network associated with intelligence. Intelligence 40 (5), 479-489.
     
  • Miguel Burgaleta, Kevin Head, Juan Álvarez-Linera, Kenia Martínez, Sergio Escorial, Richard Haier, Roberto Colom (2012). Sex differences in brain volume are related to specific skills, not to general intelligence. Intelligence 40 (1), 60-68.
     
  • Ana B Solana Sánchez, Juan A Hernández Tamames, Elena Molina, Kenia Martínez, José A Pineda Pardo, Ricardo Bruña Fernandez, Rafael Toledano, San Antonio-Arce, Irene Garcia Morales, Antonio Gil Nagel, Eva Alfayate, Juan Álvarez-Linera, Francisco del Pozo Guerrero (2012). Altered brain rhythms and functional network disruptions involved in patients with generalized fixation-off epilepsy. Magnetic Resonance Materials in Physics Biology and Medicine, 523-523.
     
  • Ana Beatriz Solana Sánchez, Juan Antonio Hernández Tamames, Elena Molina, Kenia Martínez, Juan José Alcalá, Rafael Toledano, San Antonio-Arce, Irene Garcia Morales, Antonio Gil Nagel, Ceferino Maestu Unturbe, Juan Alvarez Linera, Eva Alfayate, Francisco del Pozo Guerrero (2012). Brain rhythms alterations and their effect in functional networks: A simultaneous EEG/fMRI study in Fixation-off epilepsy. In: "ISMRM 20th Annual Meeting & Exhibition - Proc. Intl. Soc. Mag. Reson. Med. 20", 05/05/2012 - 11/05/2012, Melbourne (Australia). p. 370.
     
  • Kenia Martínez, Miguel Burgaleta, Francisco J Román, Sergio Escorial, Pei Chun Shih, Mª Ángeles Quiroga, Roberto Colom (2011). Can fluid intelligence be reduced to ‘simple’short-term storage? Intelligence 39 (6), 473-480.
     
  • María A Quiroga, Jesús Privado, Sergio Escorial, Miguel Burgaleta, Kenia Martínez, Francisco J Román González, Roberto Colom (2011). Los videojuegos como instrumentos de medida de la capacidad intelectual: análisis de sus propiedades psicométricas. Líneas actuales en la investigación de la personalidad y la inteligencia: libro de actas, 103-106.
     
  • Miguel Burgaleta, Francisco J Román, Jesús Privado, Sergio Escorial, Jason Stein, Kenia Martínez, Juan álvarez-Linera Prado, Paul M Thompson, Roberto Colom (2011). Análisis de imagen por tensor de difusión revela redes cerebrales específicas en función de la tarea de memoria de trabajo. Líneas actuales en la investigación de la personalidad y la inteligencia: libro de actas, 195-198.
     
  • Roberto Colom, Mª Ángeles Quiroga, Pei Chun Shih, Kenia Martínez, Miguel Burgaleta, Agustín Martínez-Molina, Francisco J Román, Laura Requena, Isabel Ramírez (2010). Improvement in working memory is not related to increased intelligence scores. Intelligence 38 (5), 497-505.
     
  • Kenia Martínez, Roberto Colom (2009). Working memory capacity and processing efficiency predict fluid but not crystallized and spatial intelligence: Evidence supporting the neural noise hypothesis. Personality and Individual Differences 46 (3), 281-286.

Contact

Laboratorio de Imagen Médica U.M.C.E.
Hospital General Universitario Gregorio Marañón
Dr Esquerdo 46, 28007 Madrid, Spain
Phone : (+34) 91 426 50 47   Fax: (+34) 91 426 5108 

Links