David Luque

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.

A new version of our preprint is now available 👇

link: osf.io/q52wb

New preprint from the lab, produced in collaboration with Simon Killcross' lab:

Modelling compulsive actions in rats and mice: The back-translation of value-modulated attentional capture from humans to rodents

doi.org/10.31234/osf...

I will be presenting some of this work at Pavlovian next week!

Thanks!

New preprint from the lab on habit learning in compulsivity from the fantastic @kellydonegan.bsky.social! ✅ N=1000, ✅ pre-registered, ✅ within-person crossover design...we study individual differences in habit learning using the Neureka App

My exact thoughts when I read your preprint! (Btw, we should have cited you!)

So, we think that we need to be cautious with the idea of habit induction after little training. Another take home message is, please, carefully analyse if your outcome devaluation protocol is actually working. 1st author is @antovami.bsky.social w/ @martinezlopezp.bsky.social, M. Rueda & J. León

We show in this new preprint, with new experimental data and reanalyzing data from other authors, that habits in little trained conditions (actually, also in over-trained conditions) are produced by participants who did not understand the devaluation correctly. They were being goal-directed!

Umm.. too good to be true? To understand what is really happening, you need to now that habits are tested after outcome devaluation: The reward usually associated to one response is devalued, so participants don't want that outcome anymore. Habits are persistent responses to devalued outcomes.

"Is something rotten in the state of habit induction"? Or maybe not. Recent papers pointed out that in these and other experiments participants seemed to be producing a lot of habits even in little trained conditions. So, maybe the protocols used for habit induction are too fast inducing habits!

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!

Qué noticia más bonita! Enhorabuena Helena!!

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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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Cada vez es más difícil encontrar buenos revisores. En parte debido a que cada vez se publican más artículos (de peor calidad). En parte debido a un sistema de incentivos que hace tiempo que dejó de funcionar pero nadie se atreve a cambiar (o no conviene a cierta gente)

Intentionally Shakespearean?

I wonder, please, if you have any issue with response synchronization. In our lab-based experiments we found a % of participants who did not synchronize well their responses in the forced-response test. It could be relevant to see if (poor) synchronization is somehow related to impulsivity. Thanks!

So cool! But please share the slide with the results!! I can't wait the preprint 😄

😲 I envy you so much right now

We (with @iobeso.bsky.social) submitted a paper to @nathumbehav.nature.com on March 17th. After numerous inquiries, we do not know yet if the article will be sent out to reviewers. We have the impression that the editor/s haven't see it yet (after 4 months). Not ideal

🚨 New paper alert!
Do time constraints reveal habitual behaviour? 🤔 We directly compared two major paradigms in the habit research field (Outcome Devaluation vs Response Remapping) under identical training and forced-response conditions 🧠 ⏲️ ⌨️

preprint: osf.io/preprints/ps...

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Congratulations to Teresa Bajo, University of Granada, Spain, recipient of the 2025 Clifford T. Morgan Distinguished Leadership Award. The award honors exceptional scientists who have demonstrated sustained leadership and service to the field and to the Society. bit.ly/401ldi0

I am reading a PhD thesis which is not a collection of articles. I like it this way. And I don't like the current pressure imposed over students to get published papers, starting since they are even studying the bachelor degree. Please, leave them time to read, think, make mistakes & learn from them

Jajaja this is fun!

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!

This was probably an honest mistake. Not long ago, a very normal journal invited me to a second round of revisions as I was involved in the first one -but I wasn't

While looking for a hotel room for the next SEPC meeting at San Sebastian, I've been informed that the max prize that I can pay is less than 66€ per night. The money is from one of my grants; I can't spend more because of an outdated law. It is ridiculous. I think I will sleep at the meeting venue

I'll take that bet if we change the 10 pence for a beer (of course I know that I'm not winning)

@markhaselgrove.bsky.social @mikelepelley.bsky.social @tombeesley.bsky.social @mavadillo.bsky.social