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David Luque

@davluque.bsky.social
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Experimental study of habits and goal-directed actions. Málaga, Spain. davluque.wordpress.com

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Amitai Shenhav @ashenhav.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
2 yrs ago, I briefly laid out a new theory of how motivation works (AGH). Here, I expand on the problems AGH was trying to solve, why they are hard to solve, what my solution looks like, and how this should change our understanding of thoughts & actions. osf.io/preprints/ps... 🧵A few highlights:
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David Luque @davluque.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Last Friday @nemeth.bsky.social visited our lab and gave a great talk, full with intriguing ideas and good science supporting them. Thanks so much Dezso! (The next one in Gran Canaria? 😁)
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David Soto @dsotob.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
🧠 We are hiring 2 RAs to join a decoded neurofeedback project using fMRI & fNIRS to modulate emotional states. Please RT 📅 Deadline: Oct 8, 2026 🔗 www.bcbl.eu/en/join-us/j... #AcademicJobs #Neuroscience #fMRI #fNIRS
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TWO RESEARCH ASSISTANT POSITIONS IN THE CONSCIOUSNESS Group
at the BCBL- Basque Center on Cognition Brain and Language (San Sebastián, Basque Country, Spain) www.bcbl.eu       The Basque Center on Cognition Brain and Language (BCBL) in San Sebastian (Basque Co...
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David Luque @davluque.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
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"...
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Jo Etzel @joetzel.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
#introduction I'm currently a staff scientist at Washington U in St Louis (USA), but (late 2026, early 2027) looking for a new position. I'm a big fan of task #fMRI, #BIDS, #baseR #Rstats (incl. graphics) and #knitr, #QC, and papers with very extensive #supplementary materials, but not AI.
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Pablo Solana @p-solana.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Out now in Cortex! 🧠✨️ Grounding meaning in social and emotional experience: Challenges and opportunities authors.elsevier.com/a/1nq5R_FxMe...
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PsyArXivBot @psyarxivbot.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Human outcome-irrelevant value learning is insensitive to its monetary cost: osf.io/zyc8t
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Diana López-Barroso @dianalopbarr.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Universidad de Málaga. Enlace directo al cuestionario de participación: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScJUBd05FgAIlKPbGUw-FnYvFKBBQjZ1dIYYVXkYstqeuKTvA/viewform
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Francisco Garre-Frutos @frangfr.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
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
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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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Juan Linde-Domingo @lindedomingo.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
The current system is completely dead. I hope the EU do something. It is already too late.
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Julia M. Rohrer @dingdingpeng.the100.ci · 18/09/2026
This is an *excellent* post on cluster analysis. If you ever thought about applying cluster, latent class or latent profile analysis to psychological scales, you absolutely should read this!>
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Jo Wolff @jowolff.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
The fallacy that University leaders pushing AI are falling into is thinking that the point of undergraduate research is to find things out. It isn't. What students find out is typically already generally known. The point of undergraduate research is to learn how to find things out.
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Claire Gillan @clairegillan.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Hey our psychology department is recruiting an assistant professor in developmental psychology - please check it out universityvacancies.com/trinity-coll...
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University & College Vacancies
Connecting talent with opportunity in higher education
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Mind, Brain and Behavior Research Center - CIMCYC @cimcyc.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
🧠 These results show that drowsiness does not disrupt sensory integration. 👉 They suggest that the fundamental operations for processing the environment are preserved, even as the supporting brain dynamics change. www.jneurosci.org/content/46/3...
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Drowsiness Alters the Neural Dynamics But Not the Core Computations of Multisensory Integration
Fluctuations in alertness shape perception and behavior, yet how they affect the brain's ability to integrate information across senses remains poorly understood. Here we investigated whether multisen...
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Brian O @proudcanadaveteran.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
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Philip Ball @philipcball.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
LLMs are cognitive viruses that can depress collective cognitive competence. But by the same token, immunization is possible. arxiv.org/abs/2609.03344
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Large-Language Models as a Cognitive Virus
Large-language models (LLMs) are rapidly becoming part of human culture, reshaping how information is produced, transmitted, and used. Here we propose that their diffusion can be understood through a ...
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Daniel Lakens @lakens.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
A Spanish translation of my textbook Improving Your Statistical Inferences, made by Juan G. Fernández Fernández, is now available here: juangff85.github.io/inferencias-... I am very grateful Juan worked so hard to made the contents available to Spanish speakers!
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Mejora de tus Inferencias Estadísticas
Traducción al castellano de “Improving Your Statistical Inferences” de Daniël Lakens
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Pablo Martínez-López @martinezlopezp.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
@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...
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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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David Luque @davluque.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
This is too bad (OSF was too good to be true I guess). Science people, what are the alternatives to OSF for uploading and making public data and materials? Uni repository is, at least in Málaga, not ideal. Any file needs to be approved by admin staff what is that time consuming
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Marta Silva @martamasilva.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
Check out our new paper! 🧠 Me, @xiongbowu.bsky.social and @fuentemilla.bsky.social review how reactivation at the end of events support memory formation and propose it serves multiple functions from preventing interference to helping preserve temporal continuity! ✨ www.cell.com/trends/cogni...
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Neural reactivation supports memory formation when events end
Memory routinely transforms continuous experience into discrete episodes that support flexible retrieval. We propose that these structured representations are established via rapid neural reactivation...
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auboutdureve.bsky.social @auboutdureve.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
¡¡ IMPORTANTE !! Ruego difundáis este artículo de @el_pais sobre el incumplimiento de la estabilización de lxs investigadorxs Ramón y Cajal. En él denuncio mi situación en @UPFBarcelona @LaiadeNadalUPF elpais.com/educacion/20... #rycenlucha
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Gonzalo Urcelay @gurcelay.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
Check out @parnianrafei.bsky.social's work comparing the classic outcome devaluation and response remapping strategies to assess habits in humans. This study clarifies what each test assesses and is highly needed in this continuously-growing habit literature
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Diana López-Barroso @dianalopbarr.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
Special issue on *The Right Hemisphere in Language* in #BrainAndLanguage . Submission deadline: 31 December 2026. More info here 👇 sciencedirect.com/special-issu...
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Pablo Martínez-López @martinezlopezp.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
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...
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Crue Universidades Españolas @crueuniversidades.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
🗣️Gran preocupación por el Programa María Goyri tras suspenderse la Conferencia de Política Universitaria ❗En el aire la transferencia de 150 mill en 2026 a las CCAA para financiar 5.600 plazas de profesorado ayudante doctor a las universidades públicas 👇 www.crue.org/2026/07/comu... #LOSU #MICIU
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Comunicado sobre el bloqueo del Programa María Goyri - CRUE
Madrid, 31 de julio de 2026. Desde la Conferencia de Rectores y Rectoras de las Universidades Españolas (CRUE) queremos expresar nuestra gran preocupación por la incertidumbre innecesariamente generad...
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Miguel Vadillo @mavadillo.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
Very proud of SIPS commendation to @aliciafrancomnez.bsky.social 's paper with guidelines and recommendations to ECRs running their first manylabs study.
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Miguel Vadillo @mavadillo.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
Not to mention a second commendation to Psicometríes, with @ricardoreysaez.bsky.social and @igcastillejo.bsky.social. Congratulations!
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Gavin Buckingham @drgbuckingham.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
The Cognition Group in the Psychology dept at Exeter are at risk of redundancy because "basic cognitive psychology research does not align with the current priorities of funding bodies" If you think this is overtly wrong and misguided, please sign this open letter docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
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Open Letter in Support of the Cognition Group, University of Exeter
To Executive members of the University of Exeter, including Vice Chancellor Prof. Lisa Roberts, Senior Vice-President and Provost Prof. Dan Charman, Pro Vice Chancellor and Executive Dean Prof. Sallie...
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David Soto @dsotob.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
We revisited awareness in Decoded Neurofeedback using meta-analysis + LLM semantic analysis of Ps reports. Ps seemed unable to identify the trained target but their strategies were aligned with it! osf.io/preprints/ps... @hakwan.bsky.social @meganakpeters.bsky.social @mavadillo.bsky.social
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David Luque @davluque.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
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!!!
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The evaluation of devaluation: Deficient outcome devaluation leads to wrongly considering goal-directed actions as habits
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mjservan.bsky.social @mjservan.bsky.social · 19/05/2026
Doy fe elpais.com/ciencia/2026...
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David Luque @davluque.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
Message for government. It's great that you are improving pre and postdoc fellowships, and increasing the number of them. But uni staff are buried in teaching and admin work. We cannot supervise more people. Please, we need more permanent positions, more staff, so we can have time for doing research
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Georgia Turner @georgiaturner.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
🎉 Now published in Nature Communications! 🧠 We develop a novel computational reinforcement learning & habit model of Twitter data, and show that younger people & women are more behaviourally sensitive to 'Likes'. Read the paper: bit.ly/4f1vsKS
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A computational model of reward learning and habits on social media - Nature Communications
The cognitive processes driving social media use could be key to understanding social media’s impact. Here, the authors develop a computational model of real-world social media behaviour, identifying ...
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remedioszafra.bsky.social @remedioszafra.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
amigxs, por si os puede interesar: abierta la matrícula para el Máster de Formación Permanente en ÉTICA DE LA INTELIGENCIA ARTIFICIAL, una colaboración de la Universidad Carlos III de Madrid y el Instituto de Filosofía del CSIC. Toda la información aquí: www.uc3m.es/formacion-pe...
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Johan Lind @johanlind.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
Solid rejection of "counting" and "statistical inference" abilities in nonhuman animals, from crows to chimps & pigeons. #animalcognition "associative learning models are a powerful tool in animal cognition research, often capable of unmatched quantitative accuracy." doi.org/10.1037/rev0...
Screenshot of abstract of Associative Learning Explains “Intuitive Statistics” in Animals June 2026 Psychological Review
DOI: 10.1037/rev0000626
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David Luque @davluque.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
We had a great time at the first meeting of the habit network REHPE. Here some pics of the lab's posters
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Nico Dosenbach @ndosenbach.bsky.social · 14/06/2026
We've known that socioeconomics (SES) matters for the 🧠. New & 🤯 is that SES drowns out all other brain associations, incl. IQ. If you train an algorithm to predict IQ from brain data, it's still way better at predicting SES. Science Mag: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... @smarek0502.bsky.social 👀🧵👇
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Gidon Frischkorn @gidon-frischkorn.bsky.social · 09/06/2026
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
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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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David Luque @davluque.bsky.social · 09/06/2026
A fantastic opportunity. This is one of the best places to do experimental psychology in the world. And the people is very nice too!
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David Luque @davluque.bsky.social · 08/06/2026
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...
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Pablo Martínez-López @martinezlopezp.bsky.social · 07/06/2026
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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David Luque @davluque.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
Not very surprised by this
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David Luque @davluque.bsky.social · 02/06/2026
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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REHPE - Madrid 2026
Experimental Psychology Network to Study Habits
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David Luque @davluque.bsky.social · 20/05/2026
More good news. Mario Michiels successfully defended his PhD thesis. His work, “Novel multimodal methods to study habitual behavior in humans”, was supervised by @iobeso.bsky.social and myself. Congratulations, Mario! We wish you all the best in the next steps of your career
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David Luque @davluque.bsky.social · 20/05/2026
Great news for our lab! We are very happy to welcome José J. León (postdoc, Juan de la Cierva fellowship) and María D. Linde (predoc, FPI fellowship) to the Habit and Cognition Group! Get to know them better here: www.habitcognition.com/news/welcome...
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#EEGManyLabs @eegmanylabs.bsky.social · 15/05/2026
The original study reported a very large association, r = .78. In our multi-site replication, the estimate was much smaller, around r = .15 across pipelines and analyses, and non-significant in the preregistered meta-analytic tests.
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#EEGManyLabs @eegmanylabs.bsky.social · 15/05/2026
New #EEGManyLabs paper out in Cortex! We asked whether contralateral delay activity, or CDA, can serve as a reliable EEG marker of visual working memory capacity. doi.org/10.1016/j.co...
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David Luque @davluque.bsky.social · 30/04/2026
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"
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Marta Ferrero @ferreromar.bsky.social · 22/04/2026
Deseando aprender y disfrutar en la próxima @PsychoBeers del 29 de abril en Granada! @universidadgranada.bsky.social @cimcyc.bsky.social
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