Stimuli that reliably predict reward can increase their capacity to capture attention. This Value-Modulated Attentional Capture (VMAC) is typically viewed…

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

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

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

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...

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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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...

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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The body-specificity hypothesis proposes that people with different bodies should also have different conceptual systems. The test case of this hypothesis has been the association of emotional valenc...

The body-specificity hypothesis proposes that people with different bodies should also have different conceptual systems. The test case of this hypothesis has been the association of emotional valenc...

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The Mind, Brain and Behavior Research Center (CIMCYC) at the University of Granada is thrilled to announce a five-day Summer School focused on the cutting-edge research surrounding the characterizatio...