Prof. Ana Vivas

UG, PGt and PGr research supervision

I study inhibitory control and executive functions using behavioural and neuroscience methods, and informed by brain pathology (e.g., schizophrenia and acquired brain damage). I am also interested in looking at how these cognitive processes are affected by healthy and pathological (dementia) aging, life experiences such as being bilingual (learning and speaking a second language) and cognitive interventions. More recently a line of my research focuses on self-conscious emotions, which are those complex emotions directed to the self (e.g., shame, pride, self-disgust). I collaborate with Professor Angeles Estevez (University of Almeria, Spain) and other colleagues of the team to study the differential outcome procedure, contributing with my expertise above. 

2021

Karagiorgis, A., Chalas, N., Karagianni, M., Papadelis, G., Vivas, A.B., Bamidis, P.D., & Paraskevopoulos, E. (2021). Computerized music-reading intervention improves resistance to unisensory distraction within a multisensory task, in young and older adults. Fronteirs in Human Neuroscience.

Aristotelidou, V., Tsatali, M., Overton, P., & Vivas, A.B. (2021). Autonomic factors do not underlie the elevated self-disgust levels in Parkinson’s disease. PLoS ONE 

Vivas, A.B., Hussain-Showaiter, S.H., & Overton, P.G. (2021). Schizophrenia decreases guilt and increases self-disgust: potential role of altered executive function. Applied Neuropsyychology: Adult, 1-11.  https://doi.org/10.1080/23279095.2021.1956497

Papadopoulou, S., Vivas, A.B., & Triarchou, L.C. (2021). Ramón y Cajal on the pedagogy of sport (Thoughts of an octogenarian). Revista de Historia de la Psicología, 42(2), 27–31.

Pavlidis, G., Hatzifilalithis, S., Marwan-Zawaher, N., Papaioannou, G., Giagkousiklidou, E. & Vivas, A.B. (2021) The cultural adaptation of the Everyday Problems Test – Greek version: an instrument to examine everyday functioning. Gerontology and Geriatric Medicine, 7, https://doi.org/10.1177/23337214211027683

Vivas, A.B, Stournaras, S., Paraskevopoulos, A., & Overton, P.G. (2021). Higher trait levels of guilt may protect against gambling, whereas higher state levels lead to riskier behaviour. Journal of Gambling studies, 1-18.  https://doi.org/10.1007/s10899-021-10041-2

Vivas, A.B., Chrysochoou, E., Marful, A. & Bajo, T. (2021). Emotional devaluation in ignoring and forgetting as a function of adolescent development. Cognition 211, 104615. doi:10.1016/j.cognition.2021.104615.

Laketa, A., Studenica, A., Chrysochoou, E., Blakey, E. & Vivas, A.B. (2021) Biculturalism, Linguistic Distance, and Bilingual Profile Effects on the Bilingual Influence on Cognition: A Comprehensive Multi-population Approach. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General. In press  https://psycnet.apa.org/doi/10.1037/xge0000794

2020

Chrysochoou, E., Kanaki, S. & Vivas, AB (2020). In search of the bilingual advantage: A comprehensive assessment of executive functions in French-Greek simultaneous bilinguals International. Hellenic Journal of Psychology.

Tsatali, M., Overton, P., Vivas, A.B. (2019).  Self-reported and experimentally induced self-disgust is heightened in Parkinson’s disease: Contribution of behavioural symptoms. PLoS ONE. 

Vivas, A. B., Paraskevopoulos, E., Castillo, A., & Fuentes, L. J. (2019). Neurophysiological activations of predictive and non-predictive exogenous cues: A cue-elicited EEG study on the generation of Inhibition of Return. Frontiers in psychology, 10.

2018

Roman, P., Cardona, D., Sanchez-Labraca, N., Cañadas, F., Miras, A., Vivas, A.B., & Estevez, A. (2018). A pilot randomized controlled trial to explore cognitive and emotional effects of probiotics in Fibromyalgia. Scientific Reports, 8: 10965. 

Vivas, A. B., Ypsilanti, A., Ladas, A. I., Estévez, A. F., Kounti, F., & Tsolaki, M. (2018). Enhancement of visuospatial working memory by the differential outcomes procedure in Mild Cognitive Impairment and Alzheimer’s Disease. Frontiers in Aging Neuroscience, 10, 364.

2017

Hatzifilalithis, S., Chrysochoou, E., Pavlidis, G., & Vivas, A.B. (2017). On-line social networking and cognitive performance in older adults: A Greek-Canadian cross-cultural study. Hellenic Journal of Psychology. ‎1790-1391

Vivas, A.B., Ladas, A.I., Salvari, V., & Chrysochoou, E.  (2017). Revisiting the bilingual advantage in attention in low SES Greek-Albanians. Does the level of bilingual experience matter? Language, Cognition & Neuroscience, 32(6), 743-756.

2016

Pandria, N., Kovatsi, L., Vivas, A.B. and Bamidis, P.D. (2016). Resting-State Abnormalities in Heroin-Dependent Individuals. Neuroscience, 378, 113-145. 

Vivas, A. B., Marful, A., Panagiotidou, D., & Bajo, T. (2016). Instruction to forget lead to emotional devaluation. Cognition, 150, 85-91.

Esteban, L., Vivas, A. B., Fuentes, L. J., & Estévez, A. F. (2015). Spatial working memory is enhanced in children by differential outcomes. Scientific Reports, 5

Lupianez, J, Correa, A., Chica, A., Vivas, A.B., Callejas, A., Sanabria, D., & Botella, J. (2016).  Atencion (Attention).  In Mente & Cerebro (Mind & Brain), Eds B. Molina, L. Fuentes, J. Lupianez, & R. Cuerva.  Madrid: Alianza Editorial.  [Book Chapter]

2015

Bamidis, P.D., …Vivas, A.B., & Kolassa, I.  (2015). Computerized cognitive and physical training to improve cognition in the elderly: a dose effect? Frontiers in Aging Neuroscience, 7, 152.

Kalogeropoulou, F., Woodruff, P.W., & Vivas, A.B. (2015). Inhibition of return is not impaired but masked by increased facilitation in schizophrenia patients. Neuropsychology, 29(1), 10. DOI: 10.1037/neu0000092. 

Ladas, A., Carroll, D., &  Vivas, A.B., (2015). Attentional processes in low-SES bilingual children: Are they modulated by the amount of bilingual experience. Child Development, ( 86:2),  557–578.  

2014

Frantzidis, C.A., Vivas, A.B., Tsolaki, A., Klados, M.A., Tsolaki, M., & Bamidis, P.D (2014). Functional Disorganization of Small-World Brain Networks in mild Alzheimer’s Disease and amnestic Mild Cognitive Impairment: An EEG Study using Relative Wavelet Entropy (RWE). Frontiers in Aging Neuroscience., 6, URL=http://www.frontiersin.org/Journal/Abstract.aspx?s=18&name=aging_neuroscience&ART_DOI=10.3389/fnagi.2014.00224 ,Impact Factor: 5.2 August 2014

Esteban, L., Vivas, A.B., & Estévez, A.F. (2014). Visual recognition memory enhancement in children through differential outcomes.  Acta Psychologica, 150,  146–152.

Esteban, L., Plaza, V.,  López-Crespo, G., Vivas, A.B., & Estévez, A.F. (2014). Differential outcomes training improves face recognition memory in children and in adults with Down syndrome. Research in Developmental Disabilities, 35 , 1384–1392.

González-Palau, F., Franco, M., Bamidis, P., Losada, R., Parra, E., Papageorgiou, S., & Vivas, A.B. (2014). The effect of a computer-based cognitive and physical training program in a healthy and mild cognitively impaired aging sample. Aging & Mental Health. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/13607863.2014.899972

Bamidis, P.D., Vivas, A.B., Styliadis, C., Frantzidis, C., Klados, M., Schlee, W., & Papageorgiou, S.G. (2014). A review of cognitive and physical interventions in aging. Neuroscience & Biobehavioural Reviews, 44, 206-220. DOI: 10.1016/j.neubiorev.2014.03.019.

Frantzidis, C., Ladas, A.,Vivas, A.B., Tsolaki, M., & Bamidis, P.D. (2014). A synchronization based neurophysiological evaluation of age-related cognitive and physical training: The case of the Long Lasting Memories (LLM) project. International Journal of Psychophysiology, 93, 1–11. Impact Factor: 2.144

2013

Wang, P., Fuentes, L.J., Vivas, A.B., & Chen, Q. (2013). Behavioural and neural interaction between spatial inhibition of return and the Simon effect. Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, 7, xxx-xxx. RL=http://www.frontiersin.org/Journal/Abstract.aspx?s=537&name=human_neuroscience&ART_DOI=10.3389/fnhum.2013.00572 

Ladas, A., Frantzidis, C, Bamidis, P., & Vivas, A.B. (2013). Eye Blink Rate as a biological marker of Mild Cognitive Impairment. International Journal of Psychophysiology. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ijpsycho.2013.07.010. 

2012

Vivas, A.B., Estevez, A.F., Moreno, M., Panagis, G., and Flores, P. (2012). Use of cannabis enhances anttentional inhibition. Human Psychopharmacology: Clinical and Experimenta, 27(5), 464-469. Impact Factor: 2.607

2011

Ypsilanti, A. & Vivas, A.B. (2011). Cognitive ageing in older workers and its impact on lifelong learning In Working and ageing: Guidance and counselling for mature learners. Luxembourg: Publications Office of the European Union.

Fuentes, L. J., Vivas, A.B., Langley, L., Chen, Q., & Gonzales-Salinas, C. (2011). Inhibitory mechanisms in the attentional Networks: A multidisciplinary approach. In Cognitive Neuroscience of Attention (2nd ed). New York, NY, USA: The Guilford Press.

2010

Frantzidis, C., Bratsas, C., Klados, M., Konstantinidis, E., Lithari, C., Vivas, A., et al. (2010). On the classification of emotional biosignals evoked while viewing affective pictures: An integrated data mining based approach for healthcare applications. IEEE Transactions on Information Technology in Biomedicine, 14(2), 309–317.

Vivas, A.B., Liaromati, I., Masoura., E. & Chatzikallia, K (2010). Re-examining the contribution of working memory to IOR. Psychological Research, 74, 524–531. Impact Factor: 2.47

Lithari, C., Frantzidis, C., Papadelis, C., Vivas, A.B.. Manousos, K. Kourtidou-Papadeli,, C., Ioannidis, A.A., & Bamidis, P. (2010) Are females more sensitive to emotional stimuli? A neurphysiological study across arousal and valence dimensions. Brain Topography, 23, 27-40. Impact Factor: 3.46

Estevez, A., Fuentes, L., Lopez-Crespo G., & Vivas A.B. (2010).  Consequencias diferenciales: De la teoria a la practica. In M.A. Romero-Ramirez  (Ed.) Aportaciones psicoeducativas al aprendizaje escolar. Universidad Autonoma del Estado de Hidalgo, Mexico. ISB: 978-607-482-071-3

2009

Klados, M.A, Frantzidis, C., Vivas, A.B., Papadelis, C., Lithari, C., Pappas, C., & Bamidis, P.D., (2009). A Framework Combining Delta Event-Related Oscillations (EROs) and Synchronisation Effects (ERD/ERS) to Study Emotional Processing. Computational Intelligence and Neuroscience, Article ID 549419, 16 pages, oi:10.1155/2009/549419

Triarhou, L. C, & Vivas, A. B. (2009). Poetry and the brain: Cajal's conjectures on the psychology of writers. Perspectives in Biology and Medicine, 52(1), 80-89.

2008

Tsapkini, K., Vivas, A. B., & Triarhou, L. C. (2008). Does Broca’s area exist? Christofredo Jakob’s 1906 response to Pierre Marie’s holistic stance. Brain and Language, 105(3), 211-219.

Vivas, A. B., Humphreys, G. W., & Fuentes, L. J. (2008). Object-based inhibition of return in patients with parietal lobe damage. Neuropsychology, 22(2), 169-76.

2007

Frantzidis, C. A, Bamidis, P.D., Vivas, A. B., Papadelis, C., & Ioannides, A. A. (2007). Non linear analysis of skin conductance and EEG data. International Journal of Bioelectromagnetism, 6, xx - xx.

Vivas, A. B., Tsapkini, K., Triarhou, L. C. (2007). Anatomo-biological considerations on the centers of language: An Argentinian contribution to the 1906 Paris debate on aphasia. Brain & Development, 29, 455-461.

Triarhou, L.C., & Vivas, A.B. (2007). A pioneering work in clinical criminology by Argentinean psychiatrist-philosopher Jose Ingenieros (1877-1925). In F. Columbus Ed., Criminology-Research Focus. Hauppauge NY: Nova Science Publishers, Inc.

Vivas, A. B., Fuentes, L. J., Estιvez, A. F., & Humphreys, G. W. (2007). Inhibitory tagging in inhibition of return: Evidence from flanker interference with multiple distractor features. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, 14, 320-6.

Bamidis, P. D., Luneski, A., Vivas, A., Papadelis, C., Maglaveras, N., & Pappas, C. (2007). Multi-channel physiological sensing of human emotion: Insights into emotion-aware computing using affective protocols, avatars and emotion specifications. Medinfo, 12, 1068-1072.

Langley, L. K., Fuentes, L. J., Vivas, A. B., & Saville, A. L. (2007). Aging and temporal patterns of inhibition of return. Journal of Gerontology: Psychological Sciences, 62B, 71-77.

Estevez, A. F., Vivas, A. B., Alonso, D., Marν-Beffa, P., Fuentes, L. J., & Overmier, J. B. (2007). Enhancing challenged students’ recognition of mathematical relations through differential outcomes training. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 60(4), 572-580.

2006

Vivas, A.B., Humphreys, G. W., & Fuentes, L. J. (2006). Abnormal inhibition of return: A review and new data on patients with parietal lobe damage. Cognitive Neuropsychology, 23(7), 1049-1064.

Fuentes, L. J., Langley, L. K., & Vivas, A. B. (2006). Effects of brain lesions, psychopathology, and ageing on inhibitory processing: Evidence from attention orienting tasks. In S. Ballesteros (Ed.), Ageing, cognition and neuroscience (pp.31-33). Madrid: UNED. ISBN: 84-362-5257-8

Vivas, A. B., & Fuentes, L. J. (2006). Procesamiento inhibitorio en la atenciσn visuoespacial: Etiquetado inhibitorio en la inhibiciσn de retorno. In M.J. Contreras, J. Botella, R. Cabestrero y B. Gil (Coords.) Lecturas de Psicologνa Experimental (pp. 147-153). Madrid: UNED

2005

Langley, L., Vivas, A. B., Fuentes, L. J., & Bagne, A. (2005). Differential age effects on attention based inhibition: Inhibitory tagging and inhibition of return. Psychology and Aging, 20(2), 358-360.

2004

Bamidis, P., Papadelis, C., Kourtidou-Papadeli, C., Pappas, C., & Vivas, A. (2004). Affective computing in the era of contemporary neurophysiology and health informatics. Interacting with Computers, 16(2), 715-721.

2003

Vivas, A. B., Humphreys, G. W., & Fuentes, L. J. (2003). Inhibitory processing following damage to the parietal lobe. Neuropsychologia, 41, 1531-1540.

2001

Vivas, A. B., & Fuentes, L. J. (2001). Stroop interference is affected by inhibition of Return. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, 8(2), 315-323.

2000

Fuentes, L. J., & Vivas, A. B. (2000). The Global Precedence effect is not affected in inhibition of return. The European Journal of Cognitive Psychology, 12(4), 472-488.

Fuentes, L. J., Boucart, M., Vivas, A. B., Alvarez, R., & Zimmerman, M. A. (2000). Inhibitory Tagging in inhibition of return is affected in Schizophrenia: Evidence from the Stroop task. Neuropsychology 14, 134-140.

1999

Fuentes, L. J. Boucart, M., Alvarez, R., Vivas, A. B., & Zimmerman, M. A. (1999). Inhibitory processing in visuospatial attention in healthy adults, medicated schizophrenics and non-medicated schizophrenic patients. Schizophrenia Research, 40, 75-80.

Fuentes, L. J., Vivas, A. B., & Humphreys, G. W. (1999). Inhibitory tagging of stimulus properties in inhibition of return. Effects on semantic priming and flanker interference. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 52(1), 149-164.

Fuentes, L. J., Vivas, A. B., & Humphreys, G. W. (1999). Inhibitory mechanisms of attentional networks: Spatial and semantic inhibitory processing. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 25, 1114- 1126.

1996

Vivas, A.B., Fuentes, L.J. & Catena, A. (1996). Inhibitory mechanisms of visuospatial attention: Inhibition of return [in spanish]. Revista de la Facultad de Humanidades de Jaen, vol. IV-V, 67-84.

Current PhD supervision

• Shaima Showaiter. Distraction filtering in WM ability in Schizophrenia patients.
• Vaseilia Aristotelidou. Enhanced self-disgust in Parkinson's disease patients
•  Ioanna Spentza, Executive functions, Problem solving and daily functionality in older adults.
• Bujar Gallopeni. Aging.