SEPEX XIV Conference. Book of abstracts

Abstract

The Spanish Society of Experimental Psychology (SEPEX) was born from an agreement of 16 pioneering researchers from different Spanish universities, gathered in the University of Almería on July 1st, 1997, for its foundation. In that first meeting, the first statutes of SEPEX were drafted and the first Board of Directors was elected, whose composition partially changes every 2 years. The objectives of the Society are to promote the development of scientific knowledge in all fields of Psychology; promote research and the dissemination of its results among researchers and promote the relationship with national and international homologous societies and organizations; organize and promote scientific meetings; periodically inform members of the Society about activities related to Experimental Psychology. From its foundations in 1997, SEPEX has grown to more than 400 members and has become the referent in the field for the exchange of scientific research in Spain. From the first SEPEX Conference held in Granada in 1998 to the last one held in Almería in 2022, the Society has promoted the holding (on a biannual basis) of fourteen consecutive editions. All of them included plenary conferences given by Spanish and foreign researchers of recognized international prestige. The XIV SEPEX Conference at the University of Almería has featured 125 Oral Communications, including 9 Thematic Sessions, 113 written communications (Posters), one Emerging Researcher Award Lecture given by Dr. Garikoitz Lerma-Usabiaga (Basque Center on Cognition, Brain and Language), and three plenary talks. The Pio Tudela lecture given by Professor Nuria Sebastián (Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona), and the keynote lectures given by Professor Kimberly Noble (Columbia University, New York, USA) and Professor Michael Anderson (University of Cambridge, UK). This XIV meeting has also included a special symposium to commemorate the 25th anniversary of the foundation of SEPEX. In this symposium, 7 of the founding researchers have illustrated their beginnings in the field of psychological research, a good reflection of the conditions in which research was carried out in our country at that time. Through the presentation of their experimental work, they tried to explain the questions of interest in their respective fields of study, the resources and equipment they had at their disposal, and the various vicissitudes that usually accompanied research work at that time. You can find further information about SEPEX in https://websepex.com/