💡 ¡No hagas planes el viernes 26 de septiembre! La #NIGHTSpain llega a #Málaga con una tarde-noche cargada de #Ciencia🧪🔭 para todos los públicos. 📍 Diferentes espacios en el centro 🕠 Desde las 17.30h 👉 Programación: http://u.uma.es/gQm/

Reminder (now with hashtags): We are offering a 2-year postdoctoral position at CIMCyC (Granada, Spain) to work on the psychology of dis(mis)information. Nice environment, great city! Apply before 26th September. Please share! 🔃 #socialpsychology #cogpsyc #PsychSciSky #PsychJob #PhDJob

👩‍💻 New preprint out (FIRST one of my PhD journey) with the incredible @lindedomingo.bsky.social @ortiztudela.bsky.social @gonzalezgarcia.bsky.social "From sudden perceptual learning to enduring engrams: A representational perspective" 🧠 doi.org/10.31234/osf...

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.

PsyArXiv is seeking new moderators to help combat an increase in AI submissions! If you've ever posted a preprint to PsyArXiv, please consider joining. Minimum commitment 1h/month, there's a training session this Monday @ 1pm ET. More info here: forms.gle/9LB1rEtxHAeZ... #PsychSciSky

A new version of our preprint is now available 👇 link: osf.io/q52wb

Sale una plaza de profesor ayudante doctor en nuestro departamento www.uam.es/uam/convocat... Vente a trabajar con nosotros!

🚨PREPRINT ALERT🚨 Why do some people get stuck doing things that no longer make sense, or are even harmful? Our new study shows compulsivity isn’t just about weakened goal-directed control; people high in compulsivity also form stronger habits 📄: osf.io/preprints/ps... #PaperFairy #Habits #CogSci

New preprint! Habits should get stronger with more practice, right? Well, this crucial result has been difficult to reproduce in human labs. In an instant classic, de Wit (2018) showed 5 failures in obtaining more evidence of habits in conditions with more training -as compared to little trained

Excited to be speaking about habits at the EAM2025 Conference!

New paper out! Here we show that attentional biases induced by reward history depend on awareness of such reward history (w/ @jlupiane.bsky.social and @mavadillo.bsky.social). link.springer.com/article/10.3... 👇🧵

🧠💻 We (a bunch of colleagues at @cimcyc.bsky.social) just released a programming guide for psych & cog neuro students. Instead of a tutorial, this is a starting point: a collection of reflections, examples, and recommendations. 👉 Still growing, but ready to explore: wobc.github.io/programming_book/

¿Quieres hacer hacer un máster de investigación en nuestro equipo @call-uam.bsky.social? Echa un vistazo al Máster Oficial en Técnicas de Investigación sobre Procesos Psicológicos Básicos de la @uam.es websepex.com/2025/07/04/m...

We are putting together a symposium on habits for the next SEPC meeting at San Sebastian (www.uik.eus/es/curso/xxx...). This symposium includes a wide range of study types, reflecting the vibrant moment this area of research is currently experiencing. If interested, I'll see you at San Sebastian!

The what and when of visual surprise: EEG shows that high-level visual surprise emerges rapidly and modulates neural responses ~200ms after stimulus onset. New preprint with @paulapena.bsky.social and @mruz.bsky.social available here: doi.org/10.1101/2025... Summary 🧵 below

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...

In this article, @yuedu.bsky.social and @adrianhaith.bsky.social show that behavior can become habitual in two different ways, involving response initiation and response preparation, respectively www.nature.com/articles/s41...

El estudio de hábitos dentro del laboratorio www.cienciacognitiva.org?p=2515

[🧵1/6] Would you like to know more about how the brain organizes complex, novel task information? Check out our last study in #JNeurosci @sfnjournals : www.jneurosci.org/content/45/1... @palencianoap.bsky.social @gonzalezgarcia.bsky.social @mruz.bsky.social @cimcyc.bsky.social

Proud to announce our primer on "Ten principles for reliable, efficient, and adaptable coding in psychology and cognitive neuroscience" www.nature.com/articles/s44... This primer is for beginners to get started, advanced programmers to improve, and PIs. #psychology #psychsci #cogsci #neuroskyence

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...

The Degraded Contingency Test Fails to Detect Habit Induction in Humans: https://osf.io/j4ky9

Don't miss this fresh preprint as well! Checking our experimental tasks is essential to ensure the robustness of our research

New preprint! In this study, we assessed the reliability and validity of the measures intended to capture the "habit construct" in the forced-response task and the aliens outcome-devaluation task. w/ Antonio Vázquez-Millán, @frangfr.bsky.social and @davluque.bsky.social

El lado bueno de las cosas: Uso de claves de recuperación en el tratamiento de los trastornos de ansiedad www.cienciacognitiva.org?p=2490

The effect of reward and punishment on the extinction of attentional capture elicited by value-related stimuli: http://osf.io/h8xm7_v1/

📢New blogpost for the Meta-Research Center, by our PhD student Iris Willigers. Her key point: we should be talking more about the measurement crisis in psychology. Validate your measures! #metascience #psychology #methodology #psychometrics #statistics #openscience metaresearch.nl/blog/2025/1/...