David Luque
@davluque.bsky.social
Experimental study of habits and goal-directed actions. Málaga, Spain.
https://davluque.wordpress.com/
https://davluque.wordpress.com/
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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 👇
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...
www.biorxiv.org
January 14, 2026 at 7:59 PM
🚨 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 👇
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 👇
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A Unified Framework for Psychometrics in Experimental Psychology: The Standardized Generalized Hierarchical Factor Model: https://osf.io/gv6k7
December 29, 2025 at 1:25 AM
A Unified Framework for Psychometrics in Experimental Psychology: The Standardized Generalized Hierarchical Factor Model: https://osf.io/gv6k7
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We are happy to announce that the II Joint Meeting of the Spanish Society for Experimental Psychology (SEPEX) and the Belgian Psychological Association (BAPS) will take place 9-11 september 2026 in Valencia! Organized by @erilectura.bsky.social @sepex.bsky.social +info
www.uv.es/sepexbaps2026
www.uv.es/sepexbaps2026
December 17, 2025 at 9:14 PM
We are happy to announce that the II Joint Meeting of the Spanish Society for Experimental Psychology (SEPEX) and the Belgian Psychological Association (BAPS) will take place 9-11 september 2026 in Valencia! Organized by @erilectura.bsky.social @sepex.bsky.social +info
www.uv.es/sepexbaps2026
www.uv.es/sepexbaps2026
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"Against our predictions, monolinguals generally outperformed bilinguals in word learning regardless of mapping type, and trial-by-trial analyses did not reveal differences in learning as expected."
@matildellen.bsky.social bravely decided to do a registered report with @pci-regreports.bsky.social as the first manuscript of her PhD -- 2+ years later, it's out! It's on how bilingualism affects statistical word learning, and the results were quite unexpected. Read more:
The influence of bilingualism on statistical word learning: a registered report
Abstract. While statistical word learning has been the focus of many studies on monolinguals, it has received little attention in bilinguals. The results o
royalsocietypublishing.org
December 17, 2025 at 10:53 PM
"Against our predictions, monolinguals generally outperformed bilinguals in word learning regardless of mapping type, and trial-by-trial analyses did not reveal differences in learning as expected."
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The Publications Committee is seeking applications for a new Editor-in-Chief of Cognitive, Affective, & Behavioral Neuroscience, with a term beginning in 2027. The application deadline is February 15. Learn more: buff.ly/RYEgcdS
December 16, 2025 at 6:03 PM
The Publications Committee is seeking applications for a new Editor-in-Chief of Cognitive, Affective, & Behavioral Neuroscience, with a term beginning in 2027. The application deadline is February 15. Learn more: buff.ly/RYEgcdS
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substack.com/@gavanmcnall... scathing piece on the state of research funding in Australia
Gavan McNally (@gavanmcnally)
Australia is sleepwalking into scientific irrelevance
Australia is living through a dangerous contradiction: we publicly praise science while systematically dismantling the conditions required for...
substack.com
December 13, 2025 at 4:09 AM
substack.com/@gavanmcnall... scathing piece on the state of research funding in Australia
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Join us next Tuesday, December 17, for the CIMCYC Workshop on Learning and Attention.
📍This event is designed to foster discussion on the critical impact of these processes on human cognition and behavior.
🗓️ Tuesday, December 17, 15:00 - 18:00h.
cimcyc.ugr.es/en/informati...
📍This event is designed to foster discussion on the critical impact of these processes on human cognition and behavior.
🗓️ Tuesday, December 17, 15:00 - 18:00h.
cimcyc.ugr.es/en/informati...
CIMCYC Workshop on Learning and Attention
El Centro de Investigación Mente, Cerebro y Comportamiento (CIMCYC) de la Universidad de Granada acogerá un workshop sobre Aprendizaje y Atención el próximo martes 17 de diciembre de 2025.
cimcyc.ugr.es
December 12, 2025 at 8:49 AM
Join us next Tuesday, December 17, for the CIMCYC Workshop on Learning and Attention.
📍This event is designed to foster discussion on the critical impact of these processes on human cognition and behavior.
🗓️ Tuesday, December 17, 15:00 - 18:00h.
cimcyc.ugr.es/en/informati...
📍This event is designed to foster discussion on the critical impact of these processes on human cognition and behavior.
🗓️ Tuesday, December 17, 15:00 - 18:00h.
cimcyc.ugr.es/en/informati...
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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.
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Home – CIMCYC Workshop on Learning and Attention
franfrutos.github.io
December 11, 2025 at 11:59 AM
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...
franfrutos.github.io/learning_att...
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Out now in Translational Psychiatry! www.nature.com/articles/s41...
November 28, 2025 at 2:53 PM
Out now in Translational Psychiatry! www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Very happy that this is out www.nature.com/articles/s44.... Together with @stefankiebel.bsky.social we show that decision biases in context-dependent decision making, previously attributed to different forms of value normalization, are very well explained by habit-like action repetition.
Action repetition biases choice in context-dependent decision-making - Communications Psychology
This study shows that decision biases previously attributed to value normalization (e.g. relative value learning or range normalization) are better explained by action repetition. Repeating an action ...
www.nature.com
November 27, 2025 at 6:43 PM
Very happy that this is out www.nature.com/articles/s44.... Together with @stefankiebel.bsky.social we show that decision biases in context-dependent decision making, previously attributed to different forms of value normalization, are very well explained by habit-like action repetition.
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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
📄 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...
link.springer.com
November 25, 2025 at 10:19 AM
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
📄 doi.org/10.3758/s134...
short 🧵 below
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My paper is out!
Computational modeling of error patterns during reward-based learning show evidence that habit learning (value free!) supplements working memory in 7 human data sets.
rdcu.be/eQjLN
Computational modeling of error patterns during reward-based learning show evidence that habit learning (value free!) supplements working memory in 7 human data sets.
rdcu.be/eQjLN
A habit and working memory model as an alternative account of human reward-based learning
Nature Human Behaviour - In this study, Collins proposes an alternative dual-process (working memory and habit) model of reinforcement learning in humans.
rdcu.be
November 17, 2025 at 5:18 PM
My paper is out!
Computational modeling of error patterns during reward-based learning show evidence that habit learning (value free!) supplements working memory in 7 human data sets.
rdcu.be/eQjLN
Computational modeling of error patterns during reward-based learning show evidence that habit learning (value free!) supplements working memory in 7 human data sets.
rdcu.be/eQjLN
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🧠The concept of habit means different things in psychology, neuroscience, economics, and marketing
💡Want to learn more about how we can bring these views together to understand consumer choices?
📅 Join us next Monday for the final EHPS Habit SIG event of 2025, featuring @cfcamerer.bsky.social
💡Want to learn more about how we can bring these views together to understand consumer choices?
📅 Join us next Monday for the final EHPS Habit SIG event of 2025, featuring @cfcamerer.bsky.social
We’re thrilled to close out the year with a special webinar by Prof. Colin Camerer (Caltech) on Integrating Neuro-Psychological Habit Research into Consumer Choice Models.
🗓️ Monday, Nov 17 | 16:00–17:00 (UK)
💻 Free & open to all | Recording shared later
🔗 shorturl.at/nXaZR
🗓️ Monday, Nov 17 | 16:00–17:00 (UK)
💻 Free & open to all | Recording shared later
🔗 shorturl.at/nXaZR
November 14, 2025 at 2:58 PM
🧠The concept of habit means different things in psychology, neuroscience, economics, and marketing
💡Want to learn more about how we can bring these views together to understand consumer choices?
📅 Join us next Monday for the final EHPS Habit SIG event of 2025, featuring @cfcamerer.bsky.social
💡Want to learn more about how we can bring these views together to understand consumer choices?
📅 Join us next Monday for the final EHPS Habit SIG event of 2025, featuring @cfcamerer.bsky.social
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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).
Choose your own PAS? Quantitative and Qualitative Validity Evidence for the Perceptual Awareness Scale: https://osf.io/n7zuw
November 14, 2025 at 1:26 PM
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).
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I see this same pattern in psychology—there is a huge desire among early career scholars to do applied work
This is very important, but including basic science perspectives still improves the research quality
This is very important, but including basic science perspectives still improves the research quality
"Basic scientists consistently enhance scientific output quality, yet research and newly joining researchers have shifted toward applied orientations."
Preprint: arxiv.org/abs/2509.01530
#PhilSci #MetaSci #AcademicSky 🧪
Preprint: arxiv.org/abs/2509.01530
#PhilSci #MetaSci #AcademicSky 🧪
November 8, 2025 at 12:25 PM
I see this same pattern in psychology—there is a huge desire among early career scholars to do applied work
This is very important, but including basic science perspectives still improves the research quality
This is very important, but including basic science perspectives still improves the research quality
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Look at the distribution of z-values from medical research!
November 4, 2025 at 10:36 PM
Look at the distribution of z-values from medical research!
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Desde @erilectura.bsky.social lanzamos encuesta para profesorado sobre vuestras experiencias, necesidades y nivel de preparación para utilizar herramientas de inteligencia artificial ¡Ayuda al desarrollo de soluciones prácticas y éticas para la educación!
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October 21, 2025 at 6:48 AM
Desde @erilectura.bsky.social lanzamos encuesta para profesorado sobre vuestras experiencias, necesidades y nivel de preparación para utilizar herramientas de inteligencia artificial ¡Ayuda al desarrollo de soluciones prácticas y éticas para la educación!
uantwerpen.eu.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...
uantwerpen.eu.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...
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We’re hiring a technician!!
We’re an inclusive team of behavioral neuroscientists trying to discover the brain circuits of learning, decision making, and habit. More info👇
wassumlab.psych.ucla.edu/join-the-lab/
Job posting:
jobs.ucla.edu/jobs/8968
We’re an inclusive team of behavioral neuroscientists trying to discover the brain circuits of learning, decision making, and habit. More info👇
wassumlab.psych.ucla.edu/join-the-lab/
Job posting:
jobs.ucla.edu/jobs/8968
November 3, 2025 at 3:52 PM
We’re hiring a technician!!
We’re an inclusive team of behavioral neuroscientists trying to discover the brain circuits of learning, decision making, and habit. More info👇
wassumlab.psych.ucla.edu/join-the-lab/
Job posting:
jobs.ucla.edu/jobs/8968
We’re an inclusive team of behavioral neuroscientists trying to discover the brain circuits of learning, decision making, and habit. More info👇
wassumlab.psych.ucla.edu/join-the-lab/
Job posting:
jobs.ucla.edu/jobs/8968
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“The researchers aim to show that the ‘inevitability’ of AI is just a marketing frame perpetrated by the industry and that pushback is a lot more possible than we often see.” Yes!
‘Study after study shows that students want to develop these critical thinking skills, are not lazy, and large numbers of them would be in favor of banning ChatGPT and similar tools in universities’, says @olivia.science www.ru.nl/en/research/...
‘Opposing the inevitability of AI at universities is possible and necessary’ | Radboud University
Since the widespread release of ChatGPT in December of 2022, AI has taken over much of the world by storm – including academia. Most of this happened with very little pushback, despite a myriad of iss...
www.ru.nl
November 2, 2025 at 8:07 AM
“The researchers aim to show that the ‘inevitability’ of AI is just a marketing frame perpetrated by the industry and that pushback is a lot more possible than we often see.” Yes!
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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!
Replicating the unconscious working memory effect: A multisite preregistered study: https://osf.io/sj7fz
October 30, 2025 at 6:47 PM
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!
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PhD position (FPI) in the Causal Cognition Group, University of Málaga
Os reenviamos información sobre una oferta de posición predoctoral en el Causal Cognition Group (CCG), Departamento de Psicología Básica, Universidad de Málaga. La Junta Directiva de la SEPEX ***** Síguenos en ***** Bluesky:…
Os reenviamos información sobre una oferta de posición predoctoral en el Causal Cognition Group (CCG), Departamento de Psicología Básica, Universidad de Málaga. La Junta Directiva de la SEPEX ***** Síguenos en ***** Bluesky:…
PhD position (FPI) in the Causal Cognition Group, University of Málaga
Os reenviamos información sobre una oferta de posición predoctoral en el Causal Cognition Group (CCG), Departamento de Psicología Básica, Universidad de Málaga. La Junta Directiva de la SEPEX ***** Síguenos en ***** Bluesky: [@sepex.bsky.social] LinkedIn: X: [@SEPEX13] Facebook: [ The Causal Cognition Group (CCG) at University of Málaga (Málaga, Spain) is offering a 4-year funded PhD opportunity (with the possibility of converting the last year in a postdoc position if the thesis is finished in 3 years).
websepex.com
October 23, 2025 at 2:01 PM
PhD position (FPI) in the Causal Cognition Group, University of Málaga
Os reenviamos información sobre una oferta de posición predoctoral en el Causal Cognition Group (CCG), Departamento de Psicología Básica, Universidad de Málaga. La Junta Directiva de la SEPEX ***** Síguenos en ***** Bluesky:…
Os reenviamos información sobre una oferta de posición predoctoral en el Causal Cognition Group (CCG), Departamento de Psicología Básica, Universidad de Málaga. La Junta Directiva de la SEPEX ***** Síguenos en ***** Bluesky:…
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A Gentle Push Toward Leading Your First Multisite Registered Report: Resources and Recommendations from an Early-Career Coordinator: https://osf.io/td8ck
October 23, 2025 at 11:13 PM
A Gentle Push Toward Leading Your First Multisite Registered Report: Resources and Recommendations from an Early-Career Coordinator: https://osf.io/td8ck
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As a PhD student in the lab (with similar funding), I highly recommend this PhD opportunity 🧠 Don’t miss the chance to join our team in Málaga!
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...
October 23, 2025 at 1:50 PM
As a PhD student in the lab (with similar funding), I highly recommend this PhD opportunity 🧠 Don’t miss the chance to join our team in Málaga!
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...
October 23, 2025 at 1:14 PM
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...
Reposted by David Luque
New paper with Tom Whitford, using EEG to investigate inner speech in people with auditory verbal hallucinations in schizophrenia.
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Corollary Discharge Dysfunction to Inner Speech and its Relationship to Auditory Verbal Hallucinations in Patients with Schizophrenia Spectrum Disorders
AbstractBackground and Hypothesis. Auditory-verbal hallucinations (AVH)—the experience of hearing voices in the absence of auditory stimulation—are a cardi
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October 22, 2025 at 7:06 AM
New paper with Tom Whitford, using EEG to investigate inner speech in people with auditory verbal hallucinations in schizophrenia.
academic.oup.com/schizophreni...
academic.oup.com/schizophreni...