Browsing by Author "Avila Martinez, Maria Cristina"

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Arte y psicología
(2018) Wilchez, José L.; Avila Martinez, Maria Cristina; Moreno Polo, Miguel Francisco; Reyes Guaranda, Mauricio Esteban
This work is a link between Art and Psychology within Cognitive Science. If it is not understood how the subject processes information with respect to Art, it is impossible to appreciate in a holistic way all the dimensions of the human being; including its artistic-expressive facet. The expression of Art is an energetic investment in which the creator of a work of Art shapes his vision of the world. This ability is developed over time (not possessed since our evolutionary beginnings) and is the product of cognitive processes such as memory, representation, problem solving and decision making. Each person is a world and extracts the essence of his environment in an idiosyncratic way, hence each person has a preference for a type of art that goes from the most figurative to the most abstract. To understand Art is to understand an intimate part of Psychology.
Cognitive psychology in traffic safety
(2023) Tigre Atiencia, Wilson Xavier; Ordoñez Alberca, Danny Sebastian; Michay Valarezo, Wendy Lizbeth; Campos Castro, Camila Ines; Reyes Guaranda, Mauricio Esteban; Moreno Polo, Miguel Francisco; Avila Martinez, Maria Cristina; Montesdeoca Andrade, Mateo Sebastian
Improving traffic safety requires a better knowledge of cognitive Science, especially of the cognitive Ergonomics of road infrastructure and the vehicle–human interface. Driving is a complex task that involves different cognitive modules that have to coordinate simultaneously. Perception, Language, Memory and Mental Representation, Learning, Emotion and Motivation, Attention, Executive Functions, Thinking and Reasoning or Motor Programming should be better understood in order to adapt traffic infrastructure and interfaces to the human information processing. In this work, we review the importance of these cognitive modes in traffic safety. A holistic exam of all cognitive processes related to driving and road safety is recommended to be taken by all governments and in all countries. In this sense, systematic research in drivers’ evaluation and its link to automobile accidents should be implemented. Driver assistance systems can assist to drivers but they cannot substitute the human processing. © 2023 Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group.