New preprint! We (among others) have shown that the forced-response task is a promising way to study habits in the human lab. But its increasingly popular use is associated by increasing variability in task parameters and data analysis options, creating a potential “garden of forking paths"...

Out now in Cortex! 🧠✨️ Grounding meaning in social and emotional experience: Challenges and opportunities authors.elsevier.com/a/1nq5R_FxMe...

So… we just found out that GPT sol can complete a complex online behavioral/cognitive study producing nearly indistinguishable behavior and subjective reports… right as we are about to launch. Is this doomsday for online cognitive testing?

My fourth thesis paper is out in Psychonomic Bulletin & Review! 🎉 #psynomPBR (w/ @mavadillo.bsky.social, @jthee.bsky.social, #DirkVanMoorselar and @jlupiane.bsky.social). Here, we show that learning to prioritize signals of value depends on selective attention 👇🧵 doi.org/10.3758/s134... 1/7

The role of selective attention in value-modulated attentional capture

Stimuli that reliably predict reward can increase their capacity to capture attention. This Value-Modulated Attentional Capture (VMAC) is typically viewed…

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We are hiring a postdoc and a predoc to do research (EEG, fMRI, MVPA, RSA) on expectation and attention at the wpd.ugr.es/~humneuro/ in beautiful Granada @cimcyc.bsky.social ! People with interest + relevant experience please reach us at mruz@ugr.es #NeuroJobs #AcademicJobs #CogNeuro #GranadaSpain

Human Neuroscience Lab – University of Granada

Our lab is located at the Mind, Brain and Behavior Research Center. Here we have access to several behavioral testing rooms, a 3T Siemens Magnetic Resonance Imaging facility with compatible EEG and EyeLink Eyetracker, high-density EEG recording devices, and a Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation device with a robotic assistant and neuronavigator.​

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Globally, the hottest August in observed history is just about to end. In Western Europe, the summer of 2026 (June, July, August) has been the warmest as well. Compared to this year, 1976 (the famous UK summer) and 2003 (the hottest EU summer so far) look like amateurs in terms of heat (1/2)

All four books I've co-authored are freely available online for non-commercial use: - Bayesian Workflow at avehtari.github.io/Bayesian-Wor... Links to other three books are in the quoted post 👇 (too many books to fit in one post!)

Bayesian Workflow book: Website – Bayesian Workflow book

Website for the Bayesian Workflow book by Gelman, Vehtari, McElreath, et al. — case studies, code, and exercises in R and Stan.

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Aki Vehtari@avehtari.bsky.social · 2y ago

All three books I've co-authored are freely available online for non-commercial use: - #Bayesian Data Analysis, 3rd ed (aka BDA3) at stat.columbia.edu/~gelman/book/ - #Regression and Other Stories at avehtari.github.io/ROS-Examples/ - Active Statistics at avehtari.github.io/ActiveStatis...

@davluque.bsky.social y yo intervenimos en El País, quienes se interesan por nuestro preprint sobre el estudio de hábitos en el laboratorio osf.io/preprints/ps... elpais.com/estilo-de-vi...

Del ‘scroll’ infinito a volver con un ex: ¿por qué el cerebro nos hace repetir conductas que no queremos?

No todo lo que parece que hacemos automáticamente es un hábito, muchas veces es una elección propia. Los expertos explican por qué el cerebro prioriza el alivio inmediato frente al bienestar futuro y ...

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New Blog post: Which Data Repository Should you Use? In light of OSF closing down, I compare Zenodo, Dataverse, ResearchBox, PsychArchive, and local repositories on six important dimensions. If you want to know which to pick: It depends! daniellakens.blogspot.com/2026/08/whic...

Which Data Repository Should You Use?

The Center for Open Science has announced that from November 16, 2026, no new projects can be created on the Open Science Framework. After F...

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Over the next several months, we will phase out some popular OSF features. These changes do not affect current public content, which remains safe and accessible. We have prepared support material to help users adapt. I am very sorry for the disruption to your work. Please read this post for details.

OSF Changes | Center for Open Science

We are preparing substantial changes to OSF that will reduce its functionality, focus OSF on its unique strengths, and move toward an integrated model with complementary services. As part of that shif...

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New preprint from the lab. We think we have a solution (two, actually) to a long-standing problem in the field of response inhibition. Using two different mathematical approaches, we think we can identify long-hypothesized inhibitory 'trigger failure' trials. More in🧵 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

Two types of response inhibition failures in humans

Response inhibition is a key control function that allows humans to perform safe, goal-directed behaviors. The dominant behavioral-computational model holds that response inhibition fails when the inh...

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Overreliance on habits is linked to maladaptive behaviors & clinical conditions. But are some people more habit-prone than others? Here, we tested the temporal stability of individual differences in both habit learning & expression. Our data suggest trait-like tendencies! osf.io/preprints/ps...

This one is finally published! Get a nice PDF copy from this link rdcu.be/fsEAn Massive congratulations to all authors, specially first author @antovami.bsky.social. Enhorabuena Antonio!!!

David Luque@davluque.bsky.social · last yr.

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

A little update to this thread: our preprint is now officially published in JNeuro! We show that behavioural benefits from multisensory stimulation persist during sleep onset, even as neural dynamics change. Huge thanks to the amazing team 🫶 www.jneurosci.org/content/earl...

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...

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Clara Alameda@claraalamedaj.bsky.social · 9mo ago

🚨 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 👇

We make flexible choices in new situations by knitting together information from separate relevant memories. But what governs which memories are retrieved and when? In a new preprint, we captured how people build decision variables from different memories by tracking their gaze on a blank screen.

Flexible decisions arise from resource-rational memory sampling

Flexible decision making depends on retrieving and recombining memories. Yet because this process unfolds covertly, its governing principles remain unknown. Here we use gaze reinstatement to uncover t...

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We had a great time at the first meeting of the habit network REHPE. Here some pics of the lab's posters

Finally, our paper is out! Together with @aliciafrancomnez.bsky.social, Javier Revuelta, and @mavadillo.bsky.social, we extend hierarchical factor models for skewed RTs and task validation, now in Psychological Methods: doi.org/10.1037/met0... Let me briefly explain what we did and why it matters!

A new #bmm release is available on #CRAN. With this version, #bmm now covers basic response time models. This release contains three new models plus several usability features. Here's what's in it 🧵 venpopov.com/bmm/ #rstats #bayes #openscience

Easy and Accessible Bayesian Measurement Models Using brms

Fit computational and measurement models using full Bayesian inference. The package provides a simple and accessible interface by translating complex domain-specific models into brms syntax, a powerfu...

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New preprint! @martinezlopezp.bsky.social in this systematic review takes a look at the validity & reliability of current tools used for studying habits in the human lab. There are a lot of them! But studies about construct validity were sparse, while reliability analyses were almost nonexistent...

Pablo Martínez-López@martinezlopezp.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Habit research has accumulated many tasks that supposedly tap into the same construct, yet their psychometric properties are rarely examined. Here, we assess their construct validity evidence and analyze their reliability to facilitate interpretation of previous studies and guide novel research ⬇️📝

Habit research has accumulated many tasks that supposedly tap into the same construct, yet their psychometric properties are rarely examined. Here, we assess their construct validity evidence and analyze their reliability to facilitate interpretation of previous studies and guide novel research ⬇️📝

PsyArXivBot@psyarxivbot.bsky.social · 4mo ago

The Experimental Study of Habitual Behavior in Humans: A Review of the Validity of Current Protocols: https://osf.io/r62pa

The Experimental Study of Habitual Behavior in Humans: A Review of the Validity of Current Protocols: https://osf.io/r62pa

Our very first Registered Report has been published! 🎉 In short, we failed to replicate the Construal Level Theory's tenet that spatial distance promotes abstraction... ...but we provide novel evidence for a link between religiosity and abstraction. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Do People Think Abstractly Inside Cathedrals? The Role of Place Size and Religiosity on Construal Level

This registered report (N = 2,466; >90% power to detect d ≥ 0.13) tested whether imagining oneself in large and religious places, such as cathedrals, promotes abstract thinking. Participants imagin...

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The program for the workshop 'Habits: Behaviour, neurons and clinical evidence' is looking great! We'll have a blast at Madrid! (15th of June) Thanks to @iobeso.bsky.social for organizing this event The program is here: sites.google.com/view/habit-r...

REHPE - Madrid 2026

Experimental Psychology Network to Study Habits

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Recent preprint with Oriel FeldmanHall and Matt Nassar, showing clear neural evidence that adolescent (13-15 yrs) social media and smartphones use are associated with blunted reward signaling in the ventral striatum, the brain's reward processing hub, and worse mental health. osf.io/preprints/ps...

🔴🔴 Primer evento de la SPRN (Spanish Reproducibility Network 🔴🔴 Panel de gente súper interesante, incluyendo a @flavioazevedo.bsky.social y muchos más! También llevamos representación de @reproducibiliteaum.bsky.social 😊 Inscribios y difundid!!

OpenScienceLab@opensciencelab.bsky.social · 5mo ago

🥳 Atención! Abrimos inscripciones para el primer Workshop de Reproducibilidad de la SPRN, que celebraremos el 21 de mayo en el campus de Puerta de Toledo - UC3M. Ya puedes ver el programa y registrarte gratuitamente en este enlace: sprn.es/eventos/work...

Conferencia de @mavadillo.bsky.social en la Facultad de Psicología y Logopedia de la Universidad de Málaga. Lunes 4 de mayo a las 13:00. Aula ADA. "Improving the quality of research on unconscious mental processes"

Theorizing After the Results are Known "TARKing: a practice whereby researchers alter, exchange, add, or remove theoretical frameworks post hoc not only to achieve greater consistency with their findings but, more importantly, to conform to reviewer suggestions." doi.org/10.1017/iop....

If you’ve ever considered leading a multisite study but weren’t sure where to start, I hope our new paper in @collabrapsychology.bsky.social can help! 🔗https://doi.org/10.1525/collabra.159983

Good news everyone 🥳 Our (w @vincentab.bsky.social) primer on models as prediction machines (with the marginaleffects package) is finally officially published!> journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

Models as Prediction Machines: How to Convert Confusing Coefficients Into Clear Quantities - Julia M. Rohrer, Vincent Arel-Bundock, 2026

Psychological researchers usually make sense of regression models by interpreting coefficient estimates directly. This works well enough for simple linear model...

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We're hiring! Looking for a postdoc to work at UNSW Sydney, studying impacts of reward and information on attention, using eye-tracking, EEG, and modelling - with Kelly Garner, Daniel Pearson and me. Application link below, please spread the word! external-careers.jobs.unsw.edu.au/cw/en/job/53...