Pablo Martínez-López

Replicating the unconscious working memory effect: A multisite preregistered study: https://osf.io/sj7fz

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!

The degraded contingency test fails to detect habit induction in humans In experimental psychology and behavioral neuroscience, habits are considered stimulus-response (S-R) associations formed through extended reward training. Accordingly, habits are assessed using one o...

This article is now published in @plosone.org. journals.plos.org/plosone/arti... New analysis added: seemingly habitual responses are explained because contingency deg didn't work for some participants (in line with recent outcome dev results in our lab and in @clairegillan.bsky.social lab)

Does Body‐Specificity Stand on Solid Ground? Z‐Curving the Association Between Emotional Valence and Lateral Space The body-specificity hypothesis proposes that people with different bodies should also have different conceptual systems. The test case of this hypothesis has been the association of emotional valenc...

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/...

Development of an Offline-Friend Addiction Questionnaire (O-FAQ): Are most people really social addicts? - Behavior Research Methods A growing number of self-report measures aim to define interactions with social media in a pathological behavior framework, often using terminology focused on identifying those who are ‘addicted’ to engaging with others online. Specifically, measures of ‘social media addiction’ focus on motivations for online social information seeking, which could relate to motivations for offline social information seeking. However, it could be the case that these same measures could reveal a pattern of friend addiction in general. This study develops the Offline-Friend Addiction Questionnaire (O-FAQ) by re-wording items from highly cited pathological social media use scales to reflect “spending time with friends”. Our methodology for validation follows the current literature precedent in the development of social media ‘addiction’ scales. The O-FAQ had a three-factor solution in an exploratory sample of N = 807 and these factors were stable in a 4-week retest (r = .72 to .86) and was validated against personality traits, and risk-taking behavior, in conceptually plausible directions. Using the same polythetic classification techniques as pathological social media use studies, we were able to classify 69% of our sample as addicted to spending time with their friends. The discussion of our satirical research is a critical reflection on the role of measurement and human sociality in social media research. We question the extent to which connecting with others can be considered an ‘addiction’ and discuss issues concerning the validation of new ‘addiction’ measures without relevant medical constructs. Readers should approach our measure with a level of skepticism that should be afforded to current social media addiction measures.

Had missed this absolutely brilliant paper. They take a widely used social media addiction scale & replace 'social media' with 'friends'. The resulting scale has great psychometric properties & 69% of people have friend addictions.

link.springer.com/article/10.3...

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👉 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.

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👩‍💻 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.

Expression of Interest in Serving as a PsyArXiv Moderator As you might have heard, PsyArXiv is having some issues with an increase in low-quality submissions, ranging from AI generated manuscripts to inflate citation metrics, incoherent or nonsensical docume...

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!

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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!

Value-modulated attentional capture depends on awareness - Psychonomic Bulletin & Review Value-modulated attentional capture (VMAC) refers to a process by which a priori neutral stimuli gain attentional priority when associated with reward, independently of goal or stimulus-driven attenti...

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...

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🧠💻 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/

Máster Oficial en Técnicas de Investigación sobre Procesos Psicológicos Básicos – UAM Os reenviamos información sobre el Máster Oficial en Técnicas de Investigación sobre Procesos Psicológicos Básicos de la Universidad Autónoma de Madrid. La Junta Directiva de la SEPEX ***** Sí…

¿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...

XXXV Congreso Internacional de la Sociedad Española de Psicología Comparada (SEPC) El XXXV Congreso Internacional de la Sociedad Española de Psicología Comparada (SEPC) continúa la tradición de ser una de las principales reuniones europeas para profesionales que realizan investigaci...

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

Hand movements reveal the time course of gender stereotypes during facial categorization - Psicológica Our prior knowledge of what is about to occur, or […]

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...

Dissociable habits of response preparation versus response initiation - Nature Human Behaviour Du and Haith show that behaviour can become habitual in two different ways, involving response initiation and response preparation.

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

Novel Verbal Instructions Recruit Abstract Neural Patterns of Time-Variable Information Dimensionality Human performance is endowed by neural representations of information that is relevant for behavior, some of which are also activated in a preparatory fashion to optimize later execution. Most studies...

[🧵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

Ten principles for reliable, efficient, and adaptable coding in psychology and cognitive neuroscience - Communications Psychology Programming is essential for modern research in neuroscience and psychology, but it can quickly become a source of frustration and error. This Primer introduces ten practical principles guiding resear...

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

The effect of reward and punishment on the extinction of attentional capture elicited by value-related stimuli - Psychological Research Particular features of the stimuli that predict significant outcomes tend to capture our attention in a rather automatic and inflexible way. This form of attention has been described as a Pavlovian bi...

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