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Our very first Registered Report has been published! 🎉 In short, we failed to replicate the Construal Level Theory's tenet that spatial distance promotes abstraction... ...but we provide novel evidence for a link between religiosity and abstraction. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Spend your July doing research in Granada! The CIMCYC is calling for talented undergraduate students (non-UGR) to join our Summer Research Stays 2026. 📍 9 Placements available 💶 €1,600 scholarship 🔬 8 specialized Research Groups (see next post!) 🏡 Housing support included Apply by May 11

Glad to see this finally out! Grateful to have been part of such a large collaborative effort: ✨️ Effects of Psychological Distance on Mental Abstraction: A Registered Report of Four Tests of Construal-Level Theory 📚 Out now in AMPPS journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

The Cortex special issue on Conceptual Knowledge, co-edited by Emiko Muraki (@emij.bsky.social), Richard Binney (@rjbinney.bsky.social), Penny Pexman (@pennypexman.bsky.social) and myself is still accepting submissions. 🔗 www.sciencedirect.com/special-issu...

🚨🚨 We are hiring a Postdoc at CIMCYC – University of Granada (Spain) 🚨🚨 2 year position in Neuroscience of Human Experience Building new ways to study lived experience as it unfolds in time and maps onto brain, body and behavior Please share‼️

Entrevista en @sermalaga.bsky.social sobre nuestro reciente artículo en Behavior Research Methods link.springer.com/article/10.3...

I'm so excited to share our new paper! 🎉 After ten years in the making, it's finally out in Journal of Memory and Language! We present preliminary evidence that perturbing motor activity shapes how people conceptualize the meaning of action sentences. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... 1/7

I'm so excited to share our new paper! 🎉 After ten years in the making, it's finally out in Journal of Memory and Language! We present preliminary evidence that perturbing motor activity shapes how people conceptualize the meaning of action sentences. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... 1/7

My pleasure, Pablo! Congratulations!

Congratulations @p-solana.bsky.social ! Brilliant defense of an excellent thesis. 👏👏👏

Yesterday, I successfully defended my PhD dissertation and became Dr. Solana! 😳 Many thanks to all the lovely people who supported me in such a special day and through these 4 years of hard work 💜

The doctoral dissertation defense of Pablo Solana, titled 🧠 "Grounding meaning in the sensorimotor system: behavioral, neurostimulation and meta-analytic studies," is scheduled for January 30. Congratulations to both researchers on reaching this milestone!

Por otro lado, la defensa de la tesis doctoral de Pablo Solana, titulada 🧠 "Grounding meaning in the sensorimotor system: behavioral, neurostimulation and meta-analytic studies", está programada para el próximo 30 de enero. ¡Felicidades a ambos investigadores por alcanzar este importante hito!

Happy to have contributed to this amazing collaborative effort!

So happy this is finally out, almost 4 years in the making! academic.oup.com/nc/article/2... A celebration of open and collaborative science: 📜Replicating the unconscious working memory effect: a multisite Registered Report Thank you so much to the 48 coauthors of the uWM project!🇬🇦

🚨 New preprint 🚨 Multisensory integration is often described as basic, robust, even ✨“cognitively impenetrable” ✨ But does the brain still bind the senses when alertness drops? 😴🧠 🔗 We tested this during natural sleep onset: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... Thread below 👇

Two years ago, I had an idea, one that evolved over time as I kept reading and learning. Today, a major first part of that idea has just become my first PhD preprint, now publicly available on PsyArxiv. Let me tell you a bit more about the story behind it... while I prepare the submission.

In Granada next week? Join us for the CIMCYC Workshop on Learning and Attention, with @davluque.bsky.social, @mavadillo.bsky.social, Teodóra Vékony and @mikelepelley.bsky.social discussing how learning and attention interact across different domains. franfrutos.github.io/learning_att...

This outreach article stems from a paper originally published in @psicologicajournal.bsky.social. Congratulations to the authors! It is the first to take this step within our new collaboration with @cienciaconarte.bsky.social, encouraging and supporting authors in sharing their research.

@cimcyc.bsky.social is hiring! SIX postdoc positions are coming up to dive into collaborative projects bridging together psychological science. Amazing opportunity to boost a postdoc career in a cutting-edge research center with outstanding human teams! 👇🏽 cimcyc.ugr.es/en/informati...

Have you seen George Davey Smith telling him the smoking findings were completely implausible at a seminar in Edinburgh 1994? youtu.be/K9pyS7EGCV8?...

What does it mean to understand language? We argue that the brain’s core language system is limited, and that *deeply* understanding language requires EXPORTING info to other brain regions. w/ @neuranna.bsky.social @evfedorenko.bsky.social @nancykanwisher.bsky.social arxiv.org/abs/2511.19757 1/n🧵👇

Happy to share our article now published in #psynomBRM w/@antovami.bsky.social, @frangfr.bsky.social & @davluque.bsky.social. We tested the replicability, reliability, and convergent validity of two promising paradigms for measuring habitual control. 📄 doi.org/10.3758/s134... short 🧵 below

Por si la maravilla de Ecuación Triunfo no hubiese sido suficiente... Vuelve Psicometríes Temporada 3: 👩‍🔬PACIENCIA PA' LA CIENCIA🪴 Una docu-serie sobre nuestra vida como predocs: youtu.be/Bq2jfRphg9Y [subtítulos disponibles]

Just for the record, new preprint out! In a project led by the wonderful @aliciafrancomnez.bsky.social (w/ Alicia Ferrer-Mendieta, Carmen Peiro-Lanchares, and @mavadillo.bsky.social), we test how different manipulations affect the response validity of the Perceptual Awareness Scale (PAS).

Very happy to see this one finally published. Congratulations to all the co-authors for this brilliant piece of work! Especially to @aliciafrancomnez.bsky.social for her immense patience and excellent work. Well done!

🧠 ¿Quieres saber más sobre la relación entre el deporte y el cerebro? 🏃 👥 Llega el nuevo encuentro de PsychoBeers: "Deporte y Cerebro" con Luis Ciria y Mikel Zabala 🗓️ 28 de octubre 🕣 20:30 h 📍 Sala Planta Baja ℹ️ Info: http://sl.ugr.es/PsychoBeersUGR

JOB ALERT: I am offering a 4-year funded PhD opportunity. The position is specifically linked to the project “Assessing the balance between goal-directed and habitual processing through the course of learning". The project is about learning habits and include eye tracking and pupillometry...

Interested in embodied cognition, abstract concepts, metaphors or meta-science? Check our latest publication, out now in Cognitive Science (@cogscisociety.bsky.social) onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

I'm particularly happy with this study as it's my first paper as last/supervising author 😳

Interested in embodied cognition, abstract concepts, metaphors or meta-science? Check our latest publication, out now in Cognitive Science (@cogscisociety.bsky.social) onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Reading reviews from different authors helps mitigate cherry-picking, but I still don’t know how credible their arguments are because I don’t know how trustworthy the underlying empirical evidence is. To some extent, science involves some kind of faith, whether we like it or not.

Following the controversy surrounding the p-curve technique, I wanted to better understand how the z-curve (a technique that solves several problems with the p-curve) works. I created a Bayesian version of the z-curve in Stan, and I'm quite pleased with the outcome 🙂

✨️Excited to share my first paper is out in Behavior Research Methods with @rjbinney.bsky.social and @pennypexman.bsky.social! We quantified the association of a word's meaning with reward, showing that it is a dimension relevant to semantic processing. 📄🔗Link: rdcu.be/eyqvn

📢 New version of this preprint available: osf.io/preprints/ps...

🚨 We’re hiring a postdoc! Join the FLARE project @cimcyc.bsky.social to study sudden perceptual learning using fMRI, RSA, and DNNs. 🧠 2 years, fully funded, flexible start More info 👉 gonzalezgarcia.github.io/postdoc/ DMs or emails welcome! Please share!

Lo que un puñado de judías nos enseñó sobre el lenguaje www.cienciacognitiva.org?p=2541

What is consciousness? What are the challenges of studying it scientifically? Can we ‘dissolve’ them? @anilseth.bsky.social gives us some answers in this new #INMINDS interview for @cienciacog.bsky.social about *problems of consciousness (and how to handle them)*! www.cienciacognitiva.org?p=2549

¿Sabías que en la mitología griega, Mnemósyne (diosa de la MEMORIA) dio vida a las musas, encargadas de la producción artística y la CREATIVIDAD🎭🎨🎼? ¡Pues las musas me han inspirado para investigar con CIENCIA, en mi tesis, cómo las ideas creativas proceden de la memoria! #hilotesis

¿Nos están transformando las nuevas tecnologías? 📱 Mensajes, imágenes, videos al instante 🤖 La IA crea, responde y simula 🪞 Nuevas culturas 🚀 Un clic puede hacer algo viral 🧵 #HiloTesis 👇 @crueuniversidades.bsky.social @filarramendi.bsky.social @cimcyc.bsky.social @universidadgranada.bsky.social

New publication! Gutiérrez-Blanco, F., Palenciano, A.F., Ruz, M. (2025). Hand movements reveal the time course of gender stereotypes during facial categorization. Psicologíca 46(2): e17298 psicologicajournal.com/hand-movemen...

🧠 Looking to advance your career in neuroscience? 👉 Train at the CIMCYC, one of Europe’s top brain research centers. 📢 Applications now open for the Master’s Degree in Cognitive and Behavioral Neuroscience at the @universidadgranada.bsky.social 1-year official program - 60 ECTS

We are happy to announce our👉International Doctoral Summer School: Neuroscience of Eating Behavior and Excess Weight. 📍It is a five-day event during which leading academics will address the research on the characterisation and intervention of eating behavior and excess weight. 📆June 2 to 6, 2025

New paper out now in Journal of Memory and Language! Across 3 experiments, we observed that the lateral mental timeline (past-left/future-right) only arise when time is relevant for the task, thus challenging the automaticy of this cognitive metaphor www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

There is still time until tomorrow to apply for a 4-year Research Fellow post in the Language and Cognition Lab @ UCL!

New paper out! Here, we show that the inclusion of rewards or punishments contingent on performance can significantly modulate the extinction process of value-related attentional biases. With Adriana Ariza, Felisa González, and yours truly. link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Does Body-Specificity Stand on Solid Ground? Z-curving the Association Between Emotional Valence and Lateral Space: https://osf.io/5snup

🚨 New preprint from the lab (and my first one as supervising/last author!) Check it out if you're interested in grounded cognition and/or abstract concepts: •Does Body-Specificity Stand on Solid Ground? Z-curving the Association Between Emotional Valence and Lateral Space• osf.io/preprints/ps...

New Preprint! According to perceptual load theory, irrelevant distractor information is not processed under high perceptual load. We show that the presence of a distractor accelerates search under high load, and this effect is modulated by target-distractor distance, reflecting attentional capture.