Elisabet Tubau Sala

Associate professor

Knowledge area: Psicologia Bàsica

Research group: Vision and Control of Action (VISCA)

Grup d'innovació docent Aprenentatge i Pensament

Contact Information
Department of Cognition, Development and Educational Psychology
Av. Vall d'Hebron,171
933125140
etubau(a)ub.edu

Academic Training

Psicologia . Universitat de Barcelona . 02/10/1984 . (Diploma / Degree / Activities)

Psicología . Universidad de Barcelona . 12/05/1987 . (Ph.D.)

Teaching impartedi (last 5 years)

Cognició Numèrica i Disfuncions en el Processament Numèric (Bachelor's degree) - Psychology - Universidad de Barcelona.

Percepció, Acció i Consciència (University Master's Degree) - Cognitive Science and Languaje - Universidad de Barcelona.

Pensament i Resolució de Problemes (Bachelor's degree) - Psychology - Universidad de Barcelona.

Research interests

Aprenentatge i raonament probabilísitic

Aprenentatge implícit i explícit i control de l'acció sequencial

Research Projects

Actualización del espacio 3D a partir del flujo óptico . 2021 - 2024 . Ref.PID2020-114713GB-I00 . Ministerio de Ciencia, Innovación y Universidades . PI: Joan Lopez Moliner

Visió i Control de l'Acció (VISCA) . 2017 - 2021 . Ref.2017SGR48 . Agència de Gestió d'Ajuts Universitaris i de Recerca (AGAUR) . PI: Joan Lopez Moliner

Relevant publications

Tubau, E. (2022). Why can it be so hard to solve Bayesian problems? Moving from number comprehension to relational reasoning demands. Thinking & Reasoning, 28(4), pp. 605 - 624 . https://doi.org/10.1080/13546783.2021.2015439 . ISSN: 1354-6783

Tubau, E.; Rodríguez-Ferreiro, J.; Barberia, I.; Colomé, A. (2019). From reading numbers to seeing ratios: a benefit of icons for risk comprehension. Psychological Research-Psychologische Forschung, 83(8), pp. 1808 - 1816 . Institutional Repository . ISSN: 0340-0727

Barberia, I.; Tubau, E.; Matute, H.; Rodríguez-Ferreiro, J. (2018). A short educational intervention diminishes causal illusions and specific paranormal beliefs in undergraduates. PLoS One, 2018 . Institutional Repository . ISSN: 1932-6203

Colomé, A.; Rodríguez-Ferreiro, J.; Tubau, E. (2018). Too Worried to Judge: On the Role of Perceived Severity in Medical Decision-Making. Frontiers in Psychology, 9, p. 1906 . Institutional Repository . ISSN: 1664-1078

Aguilar-Lleyda, D.; Tubau, E; López-Moliner, J. (2018). An object-tracking model that combines position and speed explains spatial and temporal responses in a timing task. Journal of Vision, 18(12), pp. 1 - 19 . Institutional Repository . ISSN: 1534-7362

Núñez-Peña, M.I.; Tubau, E.; Suárez-Pellicioni, M. (2017). Post-error response inhibition in high math-anxious individuals: Evidence from a multi-digit addition task. Acta Psychologica, 177, pp. 17 - 22 . Institutional Repository . ISSN: 0001-6918

Directed Thesis, minor thesis and research reports

David Aguilar Lleyda . (2017) . Sensorimotor decision-making with moving objects (Ph.D. Thesis) . Universitat de Barcelona.

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Eliana Arruda . (2015) . Immigrant's Subjective Well-Being and In Origin Acquired Beliefs, Attitudes, and Values: The Analysis of Counterfactual Thinking as a Reliable Approach (Ph.D. Thesis) . Universitat Pompeu Fabra.