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✉ E-mail : borja.aguado@ub.edu
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Training

Bachelor’s degree in Psychology (Universidad Autónoma de Madrid; 2012-2016)

Master’s degree in Research in Behaviour and Cognition (Universtat de Barcelona; 2016-2017)

PhD Candidate under the trainee of Joan López-Moliner (Universitat de Barcelona; 2017-2022)

  • Thesis name: Estimating motion and time to contact in 3D environments: Priors matter.

Postdoctoral researcher at Technische Universitëit Darmstadt (May 2022- Agugust 2023)

Lecturer at Universitat de Vic - Universitat Central de Catalunya (2023-Present)

Teaching

  • Perception & Action of the Psychology Bachelor’s degree program at the Universitat de Barcelona.

  • Experimental Practicum of the Psychology Bachelor’s degree program at the Technische Universitëit Darmstadt.

  • Handeln (Perception & Action) of the Cognitive Sciences Bachelor’s degree program at the Technische Universitëit Darmstadt.

  • Experimental Practicum of the Cognitive Sciences Bachelor’s degree program at the Technische Universitëit Darmstadt.

  • Psychobiology fundamentals of the Psychology Bachelor’s degree program at the Universitat de Vic - Universitat Central de Catalunya.

  • Perception Atention & Memory of the Psychology Bachelor’s degree program at the Universitat de Vic - Universitat Central de Catalunya.

Academic Curriculum

Publications

  • Preprint: Aguado, B., & Lopez-Moliner, J. (2024). The predictive outfielder: a critical test across gravities. bioRxiv, 2024-01. Click Here to preview

  • Estimating motion and time to contact in 3D environments: Priors matter. Click Here to download

  • Aguado, B., & López-Moliner, J. (2021). Gravity and Known Size Calibrate Visual Information to Time Parabolic Trajectories. Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, 15, 642025.doi: 10.3389/fnhum.2021.642025

  • Aguado, B., & López-Moliner, J. (2021). Flexible viewing time when estimating time-to-contact in 3D parabolic trajectories. Journal of Vision, 21(4), 9-9. doi: 10.1167/jov.21.4.9

  • Aguado, B., & López-Moliner, J. (2019). Perceived speed of motion in depth modulates misjudgements of approaching trajectories consistently with a slow prior. Vision research, 159, 1-9. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.visres.2019.03.009

Poster presentations

  • Aguado, R, Borja; M. Maho, Cristina M; Rucci, Michele; Brenner, Eli. (2016, September). Evidence for a temporal component in the influence of the colour of the surrounding. European Conference on Visual Perception (ECVP), Barcelona.

  • Aguado, Borja; López-Moliner, Joan. (2019, May). How to move to catch flying balls with updating predictions. Vision Sciences Society (VSS), St.Pete Beach, Florida.

Oral presentations

  • Aguado, Borja; López-Moliner, Joan. (2019, June). Accuracy and precision of time-to-contact estimates based on knowing size and gravity. 8th Iberian Conference on Perception (CIP), Sna Lorenzo del Escorial, Madrid (Spain).

Grants & Fellowships

  • Beca de Colaboración MECD (Colaboración Universitaria - 2016/2017)

  • Beca de Colaboración UB (FPSC2017.3)

  • 2018FI_B00090 (April 2018 - September 2018) fellowship from Agència de Gestió d’Ajuts Universitaris i de Recerca.