Luis Jose Fuentes Melero

Luis Jose Fuentes Melero is a Full Professor of Basic Psychology at the University of Murcia, Spain, affiliated with the Faculty of Psychology and Speech Therapy. His career includes leadership roles in research groups such as the Cognitive Neuroscience Laboratory and the former Neuropsychology of Attention group at the University of Almería (1988–2004). He holds a PhD in Psychology from the University of Granada (1987), supervised by Dr. Pío Tudela Garmendia.

• Research Focus: Cognitive neuroscience, attention mechanisms, differential outcomes procedure, neurodegenerative diseases, and educational psychology.
• Affiliations: Principal investigator in projects funded by the Spanish Ministry of Science and Innovation (Consolider Ingenio 2010, Plan Nacional I+D+i) and Fundación Séneca.

His work combines experimental psychology with neuroimaging, focusing on attention deficits, aging, and applied behavioral interventions. He has supervised 17 doctoral theses and contributed to over 200 publications, with an h-index of 32. Collaborations include institutions like the Virgen de la Arrixaca Hospital and Oxford University.

Notable achievements include developing the Differential Outcomes Procedure (DOP) to enhance learning and memory, and pioneering studies on electrical brain stimulation for attention and memory improvement (e.g., PID2021-125408NB-I00 project).