David Luque

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A habit and working memory model as an alternative account of human reward-based learning Nature Human Behaviour - In this study, Collins proposes an alternative dual-process (working memory and habit) model of reinforcement learning in humans.

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.
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🧠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!
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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: [@sepex.bsky.social] LinkedIn: X: [@SEPEX13] Facebook: [ The Causal Cognition Group (CCG) at University of Málaga (Málaga, Spain) is offering a 4-year funded PhD opportunity (with the possibility of converting the last year in a postdoc position if the thesis is finished in 3 years).

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!

The researcher will be working at University of Málaga (UMA). The position implies getting a PhD degree in UMA. This fellowship includes funding for short research stay(s) abroad. If are interested please write me an email ASAP with your CV and a cover letter. More info: www.uma.es/servicio-de-...

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...

Congrats! Experimental psychopathology as its bests.

Corollary Discharge Dysfunction to Inner Speech and its Relationship to Auditory Verbal Hallucinations in Patients with Schizophrenia Spectrum Disorders AbstractBackground and Hypothesis. Auditory-verbal hallucinations (AVH)—the experience of hearing voices in the absence of auditory stimulation—are a cardi

New paper with Tom Whitford, using EEG to investigate inner speech in people with auditory verbal hallucinations in schizophrenia.

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Thanks!! Results were related to how accurately participants detected that the R-O contingency was *negative*, though. Those who thought that such contingency was lower but still positive showed more persistent "habit-like" behaviour (goal-directed responses instead of habits?)

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.

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@jamiecummins.bsky.social

I'd like to say thank you to all coauthors (specially Sara Molinero and @martinezlopezp.bsky.social who made a great effort during very difficult times), to the reviewers and @popwatson.bsky.social for her fantastic job as editor, thanks heaps!

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)

Scientific traineeships - apply by 21 October. Text accompanied by a photo of two researchers, one older man and a young woman, looking at a screen in a lab.

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A 5-months paid traineeship at the European Commission’s Joint Research Centre. Open to graduates in different scientific fields.

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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.
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From Wikipedia "Aghion thus highlights the importance of institutional transitions: only the adoption of appropriate policies—higher education, support for basic research, developed financial markets, and effective competition—makes it possible to avoid growth slowdown..."

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El lunes no te dejan depositar

Joseph Barranco posted on social media: Go Bears! Nobel Prize in Physics goes to 3 physicists studying mesoscopic quantum phenomena... Work was done in the 1980s in UC Berkeley Professor John Clarke's lab with his graduate student John Martinis and postdoctoral fellow Michel Devoret... all 3 share the Nobel Prize. Must also point out that both Clarke and Devoret are immigrants from the UK and France, respectively. All 3 are pioneers in the race to build the most powerful quantum supercomputers. California *public* education made this happen. Immigration made this happen.

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." ⚛️

That's one reason why I like preregistration so much

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...

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