Román-Caballero, R. (2023). The potential cognitive benefits of musical training from childhood to healthy aging. [Doctoral dissertation, University of Granada].
Román-Caballero, R., & Lupiáñez, J. (2022). Suggestive but not conclusive: An independent meta-analysis on the auditory benefits of learning to play a musical instrument. Commentary on Neves et al. (2022). Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews, 142, 104916. doi:10.1016/j.neubiorev.2022.104916
Román-Caballero, R., Vadillo, M. A., Trainor, L. J., & Lupiáñez, J. (2022). Please don't stop the music: A meta-analysis of the cognitive and academic benefits of instrumental musical training in childhood and adolescence. Educational Research Review, 35, 100436. doi:10.1016/j.edurev.2022.100436
Román-Caballero, R., Martín-Arévalo, E., & Lupiáñez, J. (2021). Attentional networks functioning and vigilance in expert musicians and non- musicians. Psychological Research, 85(3), 1121–1135. doi:10.1007/s00426-020-01323-2
Román-Caballero, R., Arnedo, M., Triviño, M., & Lupiáñez, J. (2018). Musical practice as an enhancer of cognitive function in healthy aging—A systematic review and meta-analysis. PLOS One, 13(11), e0207957. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0207957
Coll-Martín, T., Román-Caballero, R., Martínez-Caballero, M. D. R., Martín-Sánchez, P. D. C., Trujillo, L., Cásedas, L., ... & Lupiáñez, J. (2023). The ANTI-Vea-UGR Platform: A free online resource to measure attentional networks (alertness, orienting, and executive control) functioning and executive/arousal vigilance. Journal of Intelligence, 11(9), 181. doi:10.3390/jintelligence11090181
Román-Caballero, R., Martín-Arévalo, E., & Lupiáñez, J. (2023). Changes in response criterion and lapse rate as general mechanisms of vigilance decrement: Commentary on McCarley and Yamani (2021). Psychological Science, 34(1), 132–136. doi:10.1177/09567976221121342
Luna, F. G., Román-Caballero, R., Barttfeld, P., Lupiáñez, J., & Martín-Arévalo, E. (2020). A High-Definition tDCS and EEG study on attention and vigilance: Brain stimulation mitigates the executive but not the arousal vigilance decrement. Neuropsychologia, 142, 107447. doi:10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2020.107447
Chacón-Candia, J. A., Román-Caballero, R., Aranda-Martín, B., Casagrande, M., Lupiáñez, J., & Marotta, A. (2023). Are there quantitative differences between eye-gaze and arrow cues? A meta-analytic answer to the debate and a call for qualitative differences. Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews, 144, 104993. doi:10.1016/j.neubiorev.2022.104993
Román-Caballero, R., Marotta, A., & Lupiáñez, J. (2021). Target–background segregation in a spatial interference paradigm reveals shared and specific attentional mechanisms triggered by gaze and arrows. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 47(11), 1561–1573. doi:10.1037/xhp0000953
Román-Caballero, R., Marotta, A., & Lupiáñez, J. (2021). Spatial interference triggered by gaze and arrows. The role of target background on spatial interference. Psicológica, 42(2), 192–209. doi:10.2478/psicolj-2021-0010
Marotta, A., Lupiáñez, J., Román-Caballero, R., Narganes-Pineda, C., & Martín- Arévalo, E. (2019). Are eyes special? Electrophysiological and behavioural evidence for a dissociation between eye-gaze and arrows attentional mechanisms. Neuropsychologia, 129, 146–152. doi:10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2019.03.017
Marotta, A., Román-Caballero, R., & Lupiáñez, J. (2018). Arrows don’t look at you: Qualitatively different attentional mechanisms triggered by gaze and arrows. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, 25, 2254–2259. doi:10.3758/s13423-018-1457-2
Ciria, L.F., Román-Caballero, R., Vadillo, M.A., Holgado, D., Luque-Casado, A., Perakakis, P., & Sanabria, D. (2024). Reply to: Do not underestimate the cognitive benefits of exercise. Nature Human Behaviour, 8, 1464–1466. doi:10.1038/s41562-024-01950-4
Holgado, D., Sanabria, D., Vadillo, M. A., & Román-Caballero, R. (2024). Zapping the brain to enhance sport performance? An umbrella review of the effect of transcranial direct current stimulation on physical performance. Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews, 105821. doi:10.1016/j.neubiorev.2024.105821
Román-Caballero, R., & Mioni, G. (2023). Time‑based and event‑based prospective memory in mild cognitive impairment and Alzheimer’s disease patients: A systematic review and meta‑analysis. Neuropsychology Review. doi:10.1007/s11065-023-09626-y
Holgado, D., Mesquida, C., & Román-Caballero, R. (2023). Assessing the evidential value of mental fatigue and exercise research. Sports Medicine, 1–15. doi:10.1007/s40279-023-01926-w
Ciria, L. F., Román-Caballero, R., Vadillo, M. A., Holgado, D., Luque-Casado, A., Perakakis, P., & Sanabria, D. (2023). An umbrella review of randomized control trials on the effects of physical exercise on cognition. Nature Human Behaviour, 7, 928–941. doi:10.1038/s41562-023-01554-4
Román-Caballero, R., Sanabria, D., & Ciria, L. F. (2023). Let’s go beyond “the effect of”: Reappraising the impact of ordinary activities on cognition. Psicológica, 44(1), e15144. doi:10.20350/digitalCSIC/15144
Mioni, G., Román-Caballero, R., Clerici, J., & Capizzi, M. (2021). Prospective and retrospective timing in mild cognitive impairment and Alzheimer’s disease patients: A systematic review and meta-analysis. Behavioural Brain Research, 410, 113354. doi:10.1016/j.bbr.2021.113354