Very proud of SIPS commendation to @aliciafrancomnez.bsky.social 's paper with guidelines and recommendations to ECRs running their first manylabs study.

Society for the Improvement of Psychological Science (SIPS)@improvingpsych.org · 4w ago

🏆We are very pleased to announce the 2026 Awards Winners and Commendations recipients for the Society for the Improvement of Psychological Science! 👏Join us in celebrating the exceptional projects that have revolutionized the field of psychological science. buff.ly/2lUKGFd

—— Open Mind is MIT Press’s Diamond Open Access Cognitive Science journal. We now have our first Impact Factor: 2.9 as of June 2026 Submit your papers to Open Mind direct.mit.edu/opmi

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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Spend your July doing research in Granada! The CIMCYC is calling for talented undergraduate students (non-UGR) to join our Summer Research Stays 2026. 📍 9 Placements available 💶 €1,600 scholarship 🔬 8 specialized Research Groups (see next post!) 🏡 Housing support included Apply by May 11

Glad to see this finally out! Grateful to have been part of such a large collaborative effort: ✨️ Effects of Psychological Distance on Mental Abstraction: A Registered Report of Four Tests of Construal-Level Theory 📚 Out now in AMPPS journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

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The Cortex special issue on Conceptual Knowledge, co-edited by Emiko Muraki (@emij.bsky.social), Richard Binney (@rjbinney.bsky.social), Penny Pexman (@pennypexman.bsky.social) and myself is still accepting submissions. 🔗 www.sciencedirect.com/special-issu...

🚨🚨 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'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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My pleasure, Pablo! Congratulations!

Congratulations @p-solana.bsky.social ! Brilliant defense of an excellent thesis. 👏👏👏

Yesterday, I successfully defended my PhD dissertation and became Dr. Solana! 😳 Many thanks to all the lovely people who supported me in such a special day and through these 4 years of hard work 💜

The doctoral dissertation defense of Pablo Solana, titled 🧠 "Grounding meaning in the sensorimotor system: behavioral, neurostimulation and meta-analytic studies," is scheduled for January 30. Congratulations to both researchers on reaching this milestone!

Por otro lado, la defensa de la tesis doctoral de Pablo Solana, titulada 🧠 "Grounding meaning in the sensorimotor system: behavioral, neurostimulation and meta-analytic studies", está programada para el próximo 30 de enero. ¡Felicidades a ambos investigadores por alcanzar este importante hito!

Happy to have contributed to this amazing collaborative effort!

Alicia Franco-Martínez (λ)@aliciafrancomnez.bsky.social · 7mo ago

So happy this is finally out, almost 4 years in the making! academic.oup.com/nc/article/2... A celebration of open and collaborative science: 📜Replicating the unconscious working memory effect: a multisite Registered Report Thank you so much to the 48 coauthors of the uWM project!🇬🇦

So happy this is finally out, almost 4 years in the making! academic.oup.com/nc/article/2... A celebration of open and collaborative science: 📜Replicating the unconscious working memory effect: a multisite Registered Report Thank you so much to the 48 coauthors of the uWM project!🇬🇦

Replicating the unconscious working memory effect: a multisite Registered Report

Abstract. Although in recent years some studies have found evidence suggesting that working memory (WM) may operate on unconscious perceptual contents, dec

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🚨 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 👇

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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Two years ago, I had an idea, one that evolved over time as I kept reading and learning. Today, a major first part of that idea has just become my first PhD preprint, now publicly available on PsyArxiv. Let me tell you a bit more about the story behind it... while I prepare the submission.

PsyArXivBot@psyarxivbot.bsky.social · 8mo ago

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

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...

This outreach article stems from a paper originally published in @psicologicajournal.bsky.social. Congratulations to the authors! It is the first to take this step within our new collaboration with @cienciaconarte.bsky.social, encouraging and supporting authors in sharing their research.

Ciencia Cognitiva@cienciacog.bsky.social · 9mo ago

De los errores se aprende: cuando equivocarse mejora la memoria www.cienciacognitiva.org?p=2612

@cimcyc.bsky.social is hiring! SIX postdoc positions are coming up to dive into collaborative projects bridging together psychological science. Amazing opportunity to boost a postdoc career in a cutting-edge research center with outstanding human teams! 👇🏽 cimcyc.ugr.es/en/informati...

Bridging Fields in Psychology and Neuroscience with Multidisciplinary Collaboration

Strengthening collaboration to encourage novel research connections between scientific areas is central to the CIMCYC - María de Maeztu Unit of Excellence strategy . To encourage this, the CIMCYC has ...

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Have you seen George Davey Smith telling him the smoking findings were completely implausible at a seminar in Edinburgh 1994? youtu.be/K9pyS7EGCV8?...

Hans Eysenck (1994) personality and cancer lecture

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What does it mean to understand language? We argue that the brain’s core language system is limited, and that *deeply* understanding language requires EXPORTING info to other brain regions. w/ @neuranna.bsky.social @evfedorenko.bsky.social @nancykanwisher.bsky.social arxiv.org/abs/2511.19757 1/n🧵👇

What does it mean to understand language?

Language understanding entails not just extracting the surface-level meaning of the linguistic input, but constructing rich mental models of the situation it describes. Here we propose that because pr...

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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

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...

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Por si la maravilla de Ecuación Triunfo no hubiese sido suficiente... Vuelve Psicometríes Temporada 3: 👩‍🔬PACIENCIA PA' LA CIENCIA🪴 Una docu-serie sobre nuestra vida como predocs: youtu.be/Bq2jfRphg9Y [subtítulos disponibles]

Documental "Paciencia Pa La Ciencia" - Próximamente...

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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).

PsyArXivBot@psyarxivbot.bsky.social · 9mo ago

Choose your own PAS? Quantitative and Qualitative Validity Evidence for the Perceptual Awareness Scale: https://osf.io/n7zuw

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!

PsyArXivBot@psyarxivbot.bsky.social · 10mo ago

Replicating the unconscious working memory effect: A multisite preregistered study: https://osf.io/sj7fz

🧠 ¿Quieres saber más sobre la relación entre el deporte y el cerebro? 🏃 👥 Llega el nuevo encuentro de PsychoBeers: "Deporte y Cerebro" con Luis Ciria y Mikel Zabala 🗓️ 28 de octubre 🕣 20:30 h 📍 Sala Planta Baja ℹ️ Info: http://sl.ugr.es/PsychoBeersUGR

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...