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 ⬇️📝

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

🚨Preprint! “Bayesian surprise tracks the strength of perceptual insight” - Work with @lindedomingo.bsky.social & @gonzalezgarcia.bsky.social Ever wondered what factors influence the subjective experience of suddenly understanding a previously unclear input? Click below: doi.org/10.64898/202...

🧠How does your brain turn a brand-new instruction into a precise action? A new study reveals how our brain organizes information to adapt to the unknown. cimcyc.ugr.es/en/informati...

A CIMCYC study reveals how the brain organizes information to adapt to new situations

Every day, we face new situations with surprising ease: from understanding a rule that has just been explained to reacting appropriately to an unfamiliar sign. But how does the brain manage to turn a ...

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High-level visual surprise is rapidly integrated during perceptual inference! 🚨 New paper 🚨 out now in @cp-iscience.bsky.social with @paulapena.bsky.social and @mruz.bsky.social www.cell.com/iscience/ful... Summary 🧵 below 👇

Rapid computation of high-level visual surprise

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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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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...

Thank you all for the questions and feedback, it was a great experience #ICON2025 #poster #neuroscience

Yesterday at #ICON2025 I got to present our poster with #EttoreAmbrosini, @palencianoap.bsky.social, and @mruz.bsky.social on flexible task representations. I loved the chance to share our preliminary results and hear such thoughtful feedback!

👩‍💻 New preprint out (FIRST one of my PhD journey) with the incredible @lindedomingo.bsky.social @ortiztudela.bsky.social @gonzalezgarcia.bsky.social "From sudden perceptual learning to enduring engrams: A representational perspective" 🧠 doi.org/10.31234/osf...

🧠💻 We (a bunch of colleagues at @cimcyc.bsky.social) just released a programming guide for psych & cog neuro students. Instead of a tutorial, this is a starting point: a collection of reflections, examples, and recommendations. 👉 Still growing, but ready to explore: wobc.github.io/programming_book/

The what and when of visual surprise: EEG shows that high-level visual surprise emerges rapidly and modulates neural responses ~200ms after stimulus onset. New preprint with @paulapena.bsky.social and @mruz.bsky.social available here: doi.org/10.1101/2025... Summary 🧵 below

#JNeurosci: Using EEG, @paulapena.bsky.social @palencianoap.bsky.social @gonzalezgarcia.bsky.social and @mruz.bsky.social examined how the brain encodes and organizes task-relevant information during novel recombination settings. @cimcyc.bsky.social vist.ly/3n68yqw

📢 This week, CIMCYC offered the Course of Initiation to Programming in #MATLAB, during which the center's students and researchers learned about data manipulation techniques, visualization and automation.

[🧵1/6] Would you like to know more about how the brain organizes complex, novel task information? Check out our last study in #JNeurosci @sfnjournals : www.jneurosci.org/content/45/1... @palencianoap.bsky.social @gonzalezgarcia.bsky.social @mruz.bsky.social @cimcyc.bsky.social

Novel Verbal Instructions Recruit Abstract Neural Patterns of Time-Variable Information Dimensionality

Human performance is endowed by neural representations of information that is relevant for behavior, some of which are also activated in a preparatory fashion to optimize later execution. Most studies...

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We are pleased to announce our next Time-resolved Neuroimaging (EEG+) #CIMCYCsession which will be held by Paula Pena. She will present the results of her work www.jneurosci.org/content/earl... No prior experience in EEG is needed, just curiosity and a willingness to discuss ideas. Save the date!

New preprint! In this study, we assessed the reliability and validity of the measures intended to capture the "habit construct" in the forced-response task and the aliens outcome-devaluation task. w/ Antonio Vázquez-Millán, @frangfr.bsky.social and @davluque.bsky.social

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Assessing the Validity Evidence for Habit Measures Based on Time Pressure: https://osf.io/q52wb