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 · 7mo 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 · 2mo 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 · 2mo 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...

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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 · 3mo 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...

Applications are now open for the 12th Model-Based Neuroscience & Cognition Summer School (Aug 10–14, 2026, Amsterdam)! modelbasedneurosci.com Hands-on training in combining Bayesian evidence-accumulation models with reinforcement learning, brain–behavior modeling (EEG/fMRI), BayesFlow, and more.

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Happy to share our new preprint on Pavlovian attentional biases ⬇️ Amazing work with people I really enjoy working with

Francisco Garre-Frutos@frangfr.bsky.social · 5mo ago

Although reward signals are believed to capture attention in an inflexible and automatic fashion, in this preprint we demonstrate through three experiments and some computational modelling that verbal instructions can trigger model-based revaluation processes. osf.io/preprints/ps...

Although reward signals are believed to capture attention in an inflexible and automatic fashion, in this preprint we demonstrate through three experiments and some computational modelling that verbal instructions can trigger model-based revaluation processes. osf.io/preprints/ps...

🗣️ ¡Charla! Recursos y recomendaciones para sobrevivir (y disfrutar) liderando un “manylabs”. La ponente @aliciafrancomnez.bsky.social  (@uam.es ) tratará acerca de proyectos multisite y ciencia colaborativa. Los socios podéis acceder a través de https://forms.gle/sopq3gBi8EeQHqQ68

Interested in habit learning? Please take a look at the meeting "Habits: Behaviour, neurons and clinical evidence" 📍Madrid, 📆June-15. 👷‍♂️Organized by @iobeso.bsky.social and the REHPE (Experimental Psychology Network to Study Habits). 🙏Please share the info! Web: sites.google.com/view/habit-r...

REHPE - Madrid 2026

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🚨🚨 We are hiring a Postdoc at CIMCYC – University of Granada (Spain) 🚨🚨 2 year position in Neuroscience of Human Experience Building new ways to study lived experience as it unfolds in time and maps onto brain, body and behavior Please share‼️

Entrevista en @sermalaga.bsky.social sobre nuestro reciente artículo en Behavior Research Methods link.springer.com/article/10.3...

Psicólogos de la UMA descubren por qué el cerebro repite conductas incluso cuando no queremos

La investigación demuestra que el “piloto automático” del cerebro puede generar errores o ralentizar nuestras respuestas en situaciones de cambio. | Cadena SER

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I'm so excited to share our new paper! 🎉 After ten years in the making, it's finally out in Journal of Memory and Language! We present preliminary evidence that perturbing motor activity shapes how people conceptualize the meaning of action sentences. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... 1/7

Action and abstraction: Motor interference changes meaning in language understanding

Can the body shape meaning? Eight experiments (four preregistered) tested whether interfering with the motor system changes how people interpret langu…

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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 🫠

The Iowa Gambling Task is an extreme example of Jingle Fallacy and schmeasurement. In 100 articles we found 244 different ways of scoring it, 177 were never reused. Correlations between them range -.99 to .99. At the same time, we show meta-analyses combine these results as if they’re equivalent.

Annika Külpmann@anniria.bsky.social · 6mo ago

How many versions of the Iowa Gambling Task (IGT) exist? And how much does this affect research using the IGT? More than you might think. 🧵

Comparing registrations to published papers is essential to research integrity - and almost no one does it routinely because it's slow, messy, and time-demanding. RegCheck was built to help make this process easier. Today, we launch RegCheck V2. 🧵 regcheck.app

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