Dr. Fernando Luna

Postdoc

Raum 205
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Telefon +49 3834 420 3796

fernando.luna@uni-greifswald.de

Research Interests

My research interests are mainly focused on the neurocognitve mechanisms associated with the vigilance decrement phenomenon, i.e., the progressive loss of sustained attention in prolonged tasks. I have contributed in analyzing vigilance as two dissociated components (i.e., executive and arousal vigilance), which are part of the attentional networks system. In the last years, I have been working on how different brain stimulation techniques (in particular, transcranial direct current stimulation -tDCS- and trascutaneous auricular vagus nerve stimulation -taVNS-) can mitigate the vigilance decrement.

Vita

08/2016 to date Assistant Professor with part-time dedication
Faculty of Psychology, National University of Córdoba, Argentina.
   
04/2023-04/2024 Research grant "Promotion of Vigilance and attention through transcutaneous stimulation of the vagus nerve" within the framework of the Walter Benjamin Programme by the German Research Foundation (DFG).    
04/2020-03/2023 Post-doctoral scholarship granted by the CONICET (National Scientific and Technical Research Council), Argentina.    
2016 - 2019 Doctor in Psychology, University of Granada, Spain
Title of the dissertation: “Attentional Networks and Executive and Arousal Vigilance”
   
2008 - 2013 Degree in Psychology, Faculty of Psychology, National University of Córdoba, Argentina.