David Luque

XV Conference of the SEPEX and II Joint Meeting of the SEPEX and the BAPS: Call for Symposia y registro Estimados socios, estimadas socias: Os informamos que hemos ampliado el plazo del Call for Symposia de la V SEPEX & II Joint SEPEX-BAPS Meeting hasta el 28 de febrero de 2026. Asimismo, ya se encuentra disponible en nuestra página web la información relativa al registro y a las tarifas correspondientes. Invitamos a las personas investigadoras interesadas a presentar sus propuestas de simposia; la guía para la elaboración y el envío de propuestas puede consultarse aquí: 

XV Conference of the SEPEX and II Joint Meeting of the SEPEX and the BAPS: Call for Symposia y registro

Estimados socios, estimadas socias: Os informamos que hemos ampliado el plazo del Call for Symposia de la V SEPEX & II Joint SEPEX-BAPS Meeting hasta el 28 de febrero de 2026. Asimismo, ya se…

Approximately 40% of all studies preregistered on the Open Science Framework are never shared publicly. That’s a lot. Researchers give several reason, and null results and bad planning (or lack of priority) are the main reasons.

journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

El Gobierno de Andalucía cede a Google los datos de 738.502 alumnos menores Protección de Datos amonesta a la Junta, aunque no le sanciona económicamente, por quebrar la intimidad exigida a los perfiles de 2.600 centros educativos de la región

Pues mira qué bien... Firmamos en la matrícula del cole que no queremos que se comparta ningún dato, ni fotos, ni nada, de nuestros hijos ni de nosotros, y para esto sirve. Y ni asomo de que nadie asuma la responsabilidad.

I don't know what annoys me more: 'Data upon request' or raw data shared in a format that makes reproducibility nearly impossible. At least the former doesn't waste your time 🫠

As someone with an interest in 1) ways of enhancing extinction learning to attenuate recovery and 2) assessing the evidence for memory erasure, I read this preprint from the Namboodiri lab with attention. Here are a few thoughts on the preprint doi.org/10.64898/202...

A framework for assessing the trustworthiness of scientific research findings1 | PNAS Vigorous debate has erupted over the trustworthiness of scientific research findings in a number of domains. The question “what makes research find...

Our new paper, with colleagues from the Strategic Council of the National Academies, offers an integrative framework of the several components that contribute to making research findings trustworthy including ethics, methodology, transparency, inclusion, assessment, etc

www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

Congratulations @antovami.bsky.social !

Drowsiness alters the neural dynamics but not the core computations of multisensory integration Fluctuations in alertness shape perception and behaviour, yet how they affect the brain’s ability to integrate information across senses remains poorly understood. Here we investigated whether multise...

🚨 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 👇

Tengo ganas de leerlo. De temática similar, me gustó mucho El Entusiasmo, de @remedioszafra.bsky.social

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

No he leído ninguno! Esperando tus reseñas ;-)

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."

CABN journal cover set against a blue background with the white PS logo.

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

Gavan McNally (@gavanmcnally) Australia is sleepwalking into scientific irrelevance   Australia is living through a dangerous contradiction: we publicly praise science while systematically dismantling the conditions required for...

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

CIMCYC Workshop on Learning and Attention El Centro de Investigación Mente, Cerebro y Comportamiento (CIMCYC) de la Universidad de Granada acogerá un workshop sobre Aprendizaje y Atención el próximo martes 17 de diciembre de 2025.

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...

Action repetition biases choice in context-dependent decision-making - Communications Psychology This study shows that decision biases previously attributed to value normalization (e.g. relative value learning or range normalization) are better explained by action repetition. Repeating an action ...

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.

Assessing the validity evidence for habit measures based on time pressure - Behavior Research Methods Animal research has shown that repeatedly performing a rewarded action leads to its transition into a habit—an inflexible response controlled by stimulus–response associations. Efforts to reproduce th...

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

You are a hero!

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.
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_...

Photo of a lab group smiling in front of a fountain at UCLA

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!