Javier Peña

Biographic Data

ID3747541
NAMEJavier Peña
GIVEN NAMESJavier
FAMILY NAMEPeña
SIGNATUREPEÑA J
AFFILIATIONSUniversidad de Deusto
ORCID0000-0002-0041-7020
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS16
TOTAL CITATIONS15
AUTHOR COUNT16
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2006
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2026
H-INDEX2

  • The Impact of Transcranial Photobiomodulation on the Bilateral Dorsolateral Prefrontal Cortex in Enhancing Convergent Thinking and Stroop Test

    Open AccessJavier Peña, Makii Muthalib et al.ARTICLEThe Journal of Creative Behavior2026

    Transcranial photobiomodulation (tPBM) has been employed for cognitive enhancement in healthy individuals. This study aimed to investigate the effects of tPBM applied bilaterally over the dorsolateral prefrontal cortex (DLPFC) on convergent thinking (CT), divergent thinking (DT), and the Stroop test. Additionally, we explored whether Stroop performance mediates the effect of tPBM on creativity. In this double‐blind, between‐subjects study, 56 hea…

  • Effects of Combined tDCS-tRNS Over the Left Prefrontal Cortex on Convergent Thinking After 24 Hours

    Javier Peña, Roger E Beaty et al.ARTICLECreativity Research Journal2025

    This study aimed to investigate whether combined transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS) and transcranial random noise stimulation (tRNS) applied to the left dorsolateral prefrontal cortex (DLPFC) with the cathode over the inferior frontal gyrus (IFG) produce effects on creativity 1-day after being stimulated. In a double-blind, between-subjects design, 54 healthy participants were randomly assigned to either tDCS-tRNS or sham. The tDCS-tR…

  • Enhancement of Divergent Creative Thinking After Transcranial Near-Infrared Photobiomodulation Over the Default Mode Network

    Open AccessJavier Peña, Makii Muthalib et al.ARTICLECreativity Research Journal2024

    Transcranial photobiomodulation (tPBM) has been used for cognitive enhancement in healthy people. However, its effect on creativity has not been investigated. The default mode network (DMN) is associated with divergent thinking (DT; but not convergent thinking, CT), and also with anxiety, which in turn has been negatively related to creativity. We aimed to use tPBM over the DMN to assess the effect on DT compared to sham. Additionally, we assesse…

  • Enhancing Creativity With Combined Transcranial Direct Current and Random Noise Stimulation of the Left Dorsolateral Prefrontal Cortex and Inferior Frontal Gyrus

    Open AccessJavier Peña, Makii Muthalib et al.ARTICLEThe Journal of Creative Behavior2023

    Creativity is a fundamental human accomplishment from scientific advances to composing music. The left dorsolateral prefrontal cortex (DLPFC) and inferior frontal gyrus (IFG) are important metacontrol hubs in flexibility and persistence brain states, respectively. Those hubs are related to divergent thinking, insight problem‐solving, and convergent thinking. In this double‐blind, between‐subjects study, 81 healthy participants were randomly assig…

  • Training load comparison between small, medium, and large-sided games in professional football

    Open AccessMarco Beato, Jordi Vicens-Bordas et al.ARTICLEFrontiers in Sports and Active…2023Cited by: 2References: 46

    This study aimed to assess if internal and external load parameters were different between sided game formats, if players' positions influenced these parameters, and if load parameters were different among sided game types (from 2vs2 to 10vs10) in professional football players. Twenty-five male players of the same club were enrolled in this study (age = 27 ± 9 years and body mass = 78 ± 14 kg). Sided games were categorized in formats as small-sid…

  • Predictors of health-related quality of life in Parkinson’s disease: The impact of overlap between health-related quality of life and clinical measures

    Open AccessItsasne Sanchez-Luengos, Olaia Lucas‐Jiménez et al.ARTICLEQuality of Life Research2022

    These findings showed the importance of identifying and controlling overlapping items of HRQoL and clinical measures to perform an accurate interpretation. HRQoL dimensions showed different predictors before and after controlling the overlap. Based on these results fatigue, anxiety, motor symptoms, and neurocognition, but not depression are the main predictors of HRQoL in PD patients

  • The Effect of Changing the Balance Between Right and Left Dorsolateral Prefrontal Cortex on Different Creativity Tasks: A Transcranial Random Noise Stimulation Study

    Open AccessJavier Peña, Agurne Sampedro et al.ARTICLEThe Journal of Creative Behavior2021

    Transcranial random noise stimulation (tRNS) increases performance in some perceptual tasks. However, little is known about its effect on creativity. Although dorsolateral prefrontal cortex (DLPFC) has been postulated as an important cortical area related to creativity, the relative role of left and right DLPFC is still unclear. We aimed to compare the effect of anodal left/cathodal right (L + R−) and cathodal left/anodal right (L − R+) tRNS over…

  • Recovery strategies for sports performance in the spanish professional basketball league (ACB)

    Open AccessJulio Calleja-González, Albert Altarriba-Bartés et al.ARTICLECultura Ciencia y Deporte2021

    This study aimed to describe the recovery strategies used by the Spanish professional basketball teams playing in the "Liga ACB." Data from all teams during the 2019-2020 season (n = 18), and the team promoted for the season 2020-2021 were collected using a six-section online survey. Protocols, timings, and recovery strategies employed differed among teams. However, natural and physical recovery strategies such as sleep/nap, food/fluid replacemen…

  • Predicting the Unknown and the Unknowable. Are Anthropometric Measures and Fitness Profile Associated with the Outcome of a Simulated CrossFit® Competition

    Open AccessJavier Peña, Daniel Moreno-Doutres et al.ARTICLEInternational Journal of…2021

    The main objective of this research was to find associations between the outcome of a simulated CrossFit ® competition, anthropometric measures, and standardized fitness tests. Ten experienced male CrossFit ® athletes (age 28.8 ± 3.5 years; height 175 ± 10.0 cm; weight 80.3 ± 12.5 kg) participated in a simulated CrossFit ® competition with three benchmark workouts ("Fran", "Isabel", and "Kelly") and underwent fitness tests. Participants were test…

  • The Behaviour of Home Advantage during the Covid-19 Pandemic in European Rink Hockey Leagues

    Open AccessJordi Arboix-Alió, Guillem Trabal et al.ARTICLEInternational Journal of…2021

    The primary purpose of the present study was to compare the home advantage (HA) and the home team performance in the most relevant European rink hockey leagues (Spanish, Portuguese and Italian), considering the presence or absence of spectators in the competition venues due to the effect of COVID-19 restrictions. The sample was composed of 1665 rink hockey matches (654 from the Spanish league, 497 from the Portuguese league, and 514 from the Ital…

  • Influence of the Amount of Instability on the Leg Muscle Activity During a Loaded Free Barbell Half-Squat

    Open AccessBernat Buscà, Joan Aguilera-Castells et al.ARTICLEInternational Journal of…2020

    This study aimed to understand the acute responses on the muscular activity of primary movers during the execution of a half-squat under different unstable devices. Fourteen male and female high-standard track and field athletes were voluntarily recruited. A repeated measures design was used to establish the differences between muscle activity of the primary movers, the body centre of mass acceleration and the OMNI-Perceived Exertion Scale for Re…

  • Assessing the role of the built environment and sociodemographic characteristics on walking travel distances in Bogotá

    Open AccessL A Guzman, Javier Peña et al.ARTICLEJournal of Transport Geography2020Cited by: 5References: 9

  • A cellular automata-based land-use model as an integrated spatial decision support system for urban planning in developing cities: The case of the Bogotá region

    Open AccessL A Guzman, Francisco Escobar et al.ARTICLELand Use Policy2020Cited by: 7References: 38

  • República, libertad y democracia en Spinoza

    Open AccessJavier PeñaARTICLECo-herencia2018References: 1

    El objetivo principal de este artículo es mostrar el valor de una lectura de la filosofía política de Spinoza desde un enfoque republicano. Spinoza incorpora en su teoría política elementos del léxico, conceptos y problemas del republicanismo, retomándolos y transformándolos de acuerdo con los fundamentos metafísicos de su filosofía y con el contexto holandés de su tiempo. Podemos comprender mejor el sentido y el alcance de esa teoría si situamos…

  • Kant en la encrucijada del cosmopolitismo

    Open AccessJavier PeñaARTICLEethic@ - An international Journal…2017Cited by: 1References: 1

    Kant es una figura crucial en la historia del cosmopolitismo: en él confluyen las ideas y propuestas cosmopolitas anteriores, y de sus planteamientos nace buena parte del cosmopolitismo futuro. El filósofo prusiano aborda las cuestiones centrales que aún hoy se plantean en torno al cosmopolitismo: qué significa, en qué puede fundarse una propuesta cosmopolita, cómo institucionalizarlo. Cualquier reflexión crítica sobre el cosmopolitismo sigue pas…

  • Universalismo moral y derecho de gentes en Francisco de Vitoria

    Open AccessJavier PeñaARTICLERevista de estudios histórico-juríd…2006

    En este artículo se desarrolla el lugar y la función posible del concepto de ius gentium en Francisco de Vitoria, en relación con la fundamentación de un marco normativo, jurídico y moral, universalista para la intervención española en América y la relación con los miembros de otros pueblos y culturas. Este trabajo sostiene que la noción del ius gentium permite concebir un marco cosmopolita de entendimiento y reglas de interacción compartidas, ba…