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Marta La Pietra

@mlapietra.bsky.social
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She/her/hers. ~ PhD researcher in Cognitive Neuroscience at the Attention, Cognitive Control and Affect Lab, Basque Centre on Cognition, Brain and Language (@bcbl.bsky.social), in Donostia, Spain. ~ Linguistics. Cognitive conflict. Oxymorons.

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Marta La Pietra @mlapietra.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
What a pleasure it has been to present at the Symposium "The mismatch across representational levels" during @sepex.bsky.social 2026 in Valencia 🤩 Thank you so much, @miriamtg.bsky.social , for organising it, and thank you to all the speakers for making this symposium so interesting!
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Communications Psychology @commspsychol.nature.com · 21/05/2026
www.nature.com/articles/s44... New research Article by @mlapietra.bsky.social ‪@manuruz.bsky.social‬‬‬‬ and colleagues in the journal (in Press).
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The experience of cognitive conflict is intrinsically rewarding - Communications Psychology
Across two online experiments (N = 200), we show that people freely choose to engage in cognitive conflict (Simon and Stroop tasks) without external rewards. Perceived as effortful yet enjoyable, cogn...
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Marta La Pietra @mlapietra.bsky.social · 16/05/2026
Our paper is finally out! 🥳 In this work, we explore how the experience of cognitive conflict can ultimately be engaging, emotionally positive and sought after, despite the effort associated with it. Go check it out! :) @manuruz.bsky.social , Marc-Lluís Vives, @nicolaml.bsky.social
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Collabra: Psychology @collabrapsychology.bsky.social · 11/12/2025
Exploring the Impact of Cognitive Conflict on Subsequent Cognitive Processes, from @mlapietra.bsky.social and @manuruz.bsky.social #RegisteredReport doi.org/10.1525/coll...
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Exploring the Impact of Cognitive Conflict on Subsequent Cognitive Processes
Cognitive conflict is often viewed as detrimental to performance, effortful, and emotionally aversive. However, when successfully resolved, it can also stimulate cognitive flexibility and adaptation, ...
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Marta La Pietra @mlapietra.bsky.social · 06/10/2025
What a day! ✨
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Marta La Pietra @mlapietra.bsky.social · 24/07/2025
Check out our new preprint on the intrinsically rewarding nature of cognitive conflict! osf.io/preprints/ps...
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Mind, Brain and Behavior Research Center - CIMCYC @cimcyc.bsky.social · 10/06/2025
Yesterday and today, the II Workshop on Computational Modelling of Behavioral Data (CMB) was held at CIMCYC. 📍It was a workshop where early-career researchers learned about computational modeling techniques in the field of cognitive science. @sepex.bsky.social @sepneca.bsky.social
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Basque Center on Cognition, Brain and Language (BCBL) @bcbl.bsky.social · 07/05/2025
🔜🍻🧠 ¡Volvemos a los bares de #Donostia! 🧠🍻🔜 Del 19 al 21 de mayo #BCBL vuelve a participar en la décima edición de Pint of Science. ¡No te lo puedes perder! 👀👇 #pint25 #pint25ES #pint25DSS
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Efthymia Kapnoula @effiekapnoula.bsky.social · 14/03/2025
📢Applications to our Master's Program in Cognitive Neuroscience of Language at BCBL @bcbl.bsky.social (Spain) are open! 📆Preregistration deadline: March 26th Info: www.bcbl.eu/en/study-wit... #neuroscience #language #psychology #linguistics #research #master
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Master's in cognitive neuroscience of language
Cognitive Neuroscience arises from the concentration of efforts from such diverse areas such as cognitive psychology, neuroscience, linguistics and clinical neuropsychology, among others, as well as f...
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Basque Center on Cognition, Brain and Language (BCBL) @bcbl.bsky.social · 12/03/2025
🔝#BCBL celebrated last Friday our #retreat2025 day at the #Arraunetxe in Orio. An opportunity to review the results of 2024 all together and reflect on the challenges and objectives for 2025 with more enthusiasm and strength than ever. 🤩 #teambuilding
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