🚨 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 👇

A Unified Framework for Psychometrics in Experimental Psychology: The Standardized Generalized Hierarchical Factor Model: https://osf.io/gv6k7

We are happy to announce that the II Joint Meeting of the Spanish Society for Experimental Psychology (SEPEX) and the Belgian Psychological Association (BAPS) will take place 9-11 september 2026 in Valencia! Organized by @erilectura.bsky.social @sepex.bsky.social +info www.uv.es/sepexbaps2026

"Against our predictions, monolinguals generally outperformed bilinguals in word learning regardless of mapping type, and trial-by-trial analyses did not reveal differences in learning as expected."

The Publications Committee is seeking applications for a new Editor-in-Chief of Cognitive, Affective, & Behavioral Neuroscience, with a term beginning in 2027. The application deadline is February 15. Learn more: buff.ly/RYEgcdS

substack.com/@gavanmcnall... scathing piece on the state of research funding in Australia

Join us next Tuesday, December 17, for the CIMCYC Workshop on Learning and Attention. 📍This event is designed to foster discussion on the critical impact of these processes on human cognition and behavior. 🗓️ Tuesday, December 17, 15:00 - 18:00h. cimcyc.ugr.es/en/informati...

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...

Out now in Translational Psychiatry! www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Very happy that this is out www.nature.com/articles/s44.... Together with @stefankiebel.bsky.social we show that decision biases in context-dependent decision making, previously attributed to different forms of value normalization, are very well explained by habit-like action repetition.

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

My paper is out! Computational modeling of error patterns during reward-based learning show evidence that habit learning (value free!) supplements working memory in 7 human data sets. rdcu.be/eQjLN

🧠The concept of habit means different things in psychology, neuroscience, economics, and marketing 💡Want to learn more about how we can bring these views together to understand consumer choices? 📅 Join us next Monday for the final EHPS Habit SIG event of 2025, featuring @cfcamerer.bsky.social

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).

I see this same pattern in psychology—there is a huge desire among early career scholars to do applied work This is very important, but including basic science perspectives still improves the research quality

Look at the distribution of z-values from medical research!

Desde @erilectura.bsky.social lanzamos encuesta para profesorado sobre vuestras experiencias, necesidades y nivel de preparación para utilizar herramientas de inteligencia artificial ¡Ayuda al desarrollo de soluciones prácticas y éticas para la educación! uantwerpen.eu.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...

We’re hiring a technician!! We’re an inclusive team of behavioral neuroscientists trying to discover the brain circuits of learning, decision making, and habit. More info👇 wassumlab.psych.ucla.edu/join-the-lab/ Job posting: jobs.ucla.edu/jobs/8968

“The researchers aim to show that the ‘inevitability’ of AI is just a marketing frame perpetrated by the industry and that pushback is a lot more possible than we often see.” Yes!

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!

PhD position (FPI) in the Causal Cognition Group, University of Málaga Os reenviamos información sobre una oferta de posición predoctoral en el Causal Cognition Group (CCG), Departamento de Psicología Básica, Universidad de Málaga. La Junta Directiva de la SEPEX ***** Síguenos en ***** Bluesky:…

A Gentle Push Toward Leading Your First Multisite Registered Report: Resources and Recommendations from an Early-Career Coordinator: https://osf.io/td8ck

As a PhD student in the lab (with similar funding), I highly recommend this PhD opportunity 🧠 Don’t miss the chance to join our team in Málaga!

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...

New paper with Tom Whitford, using EEG to investigate inner speech in people with auditory verbal hallucinations in schizophrenia. academic.oup.com/schizophreni...

Results of the replication are in! Chocolate is more desirable than poop: Cohen's d_rm = 6.20, 95%CI [5.63, 6.78] N = 486, two single item 1-7 Likert scales of desirability. w/ @jamiecummins.bsky.social

Apply for our Scientific Traineeships! A 5-months paid traineeship at the European Commission’s Joint Research Centre. Open to graduates in different scientific fields. All information: europa.eu/!mBn7wR #ResearchJobs #EUScienceJobs #JRC

Estamos de vuelta! 🥳

Breaking Nobel news!🏅 Congratulations to Philippe Aghion, Joel Mokyr and Peter Howitt on winning the Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economics in Memory of Alfred Nobel. The European Research Council is proud to have backed Philippe Aghion with two ERC Advanced Grants. 🇪🇺

📣The 2026 ERC Consolidator Grant competition is now open! 📣 Already preparing your proposal? Info links ⬇️ Info for applicants 👉 buff.ly/PSbeUxX Application portal 👉 buff.ly/mauZoqo Deadline: 13/01/26 General info on #ERCCoG 👉 buff.ly/KCN6GTh

Valuable info about the Physics Nobel Prize today from Prof. Joseph Barranco at SFSU on Martinis and Devoret being a grad student and postdoc in Clarke's lab at UC Berkeley & Clark and Devoret being immigrants. "California *public* education made this happen. Immigration made this happen." ⚛️

Am slowly making my way through this paper. And it is an impressive body of work by a collection of great researchers. However, I have a couple of problems with it... 1/n

The symposium on habits at the International Spanish Comparative Psychology Society has been fantastic. Thanks to the organisers, the audience and of course the speakers. Here it follows what each talk was about:

In which 94 benchmark phenomena are identified. 16 are domain- and species-general and should be explained by any theory claiming generality. 30 are species- and/or domain-specific but highly robust across procedures

rdcu.be/eIyQB Now published in Neuropsychopharmacology, here we mimicked the striatal neuroinflammation seen in the brains of individuals with compulsive disorders and found that this facilitated goal-directed action, whereas activating the Gi pathway in astrocytes prevented it

Academics with standard R&T contracts, how many journal article reviews do you do in a typical year, and how long do you spend on the average review?

Call for papers on conflict adaptation across single- and multi-tasking paradigms in the Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning Memory & Cognition The deadline for initial submissions is 1 October 2026.

1/At Macquarie Uni we are losing 50% of our units in my faculty. This is on top of cuts in 2020. We estimate by next year my faculty will be teaching 80% fewer subjects than pre Covid. Disciplines being cut do not have declining enrolments. @jennaprice.bsky.social @michaelwestbiz.bsky.social

I often see papers using GPower for power analysis in repeated measures factorial ANOVA designs. I don’t know what it’s doing, but it’s definitely giving wrong answers: substantially underestimates required sample size. MorePower seems like a much better alternative github.com/LewisPeacock...

Does facilitation by irrelevant distractors reflect suppression or controlled attentional capture? By reanalyzing prior work using the perceptual load paradigm, we find evidence for the latter! If you are interested, check out the latest version of our preprint 👇 doi.org/10.31234/osf...

While measuring habits in humans experimentally is hard, on Bluesky it’s much easier: just count your “save omission errors” (the number of times you forget you can now save posts).

Full professor complaining to an assistant professor on how hard it is to get funding nowadays

Postdoctoral job offer: Do you want to join us to conduct research on the psychology of dis(mis)information in Granada, Spain? You will also have the opportunity to participate in popularization activities. 📆Apply before Sept 26th! #socialpsyc #cogpsyc #PsychSciSky #polipsy

New research paper #PsynomLB 'Extinction of outcome-specific Pavlovian-to-instrumental transfer (PIT), instrumental outcome devaluation, and reward-related attentional capture are predicted by affect-driven impulsivity' https://bit.ly/43Rc3FL#PsynomLB@Psychonomic_Soc @CanalUGR #Pavlov

Finally! 🤩 Our position piece: Against the Uncritical Adoption of 'AI' Technologies in Academia: doi.org/10.5281/zeno... We unpick the tech industry’s marketing, hype, & harm; and we argue for safeguarding higher education, critical thinking, expertise, academic freedom, & scientific integrity. 1/n

Academics are under unrelenting pressure to accept the narrative of the inevitability of #generativeAI & to embrace it in teaching & learning. We resist - because it is ecologically destructive, ethically corrupt, & because it undermines the thinking abilities that make us both human & intelligent.

For those of you starting up school again -- or with kids who are -- here's my under-10-minute introduction to science-backed study tips. Let me know if you find them helpful, and feel free to share!

🌱Don’t miss out on the Habit highlights at the EHPS conference in Groningen!🌱 From habit decay strategies and AI-driven interventions to fresh insights into measurement and automatic influences on behaviour, this year’s program features inspiring research and networking opportunities.

Job Alert!!! We are looking for a motivated postdoc to join a 3-year BBSRC funded project led by my colleague Carl Stevenson (I’m coPI). This multi-disciplinary project will combine in vivo heart rate monitoring and optogenetics with behavioural testing (fear and active avoidance) in rats.

Excited to share our new publication on the influence of odor perception on memory. Congratulations to @joantarridav.bsky.social for initiating this fascinating line of research in our lab.