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Pablo Solana @p-solana.bsky.social · 5d

Interested in embodied cognition, abstract concepts, metaphors or meta-science? Check our latest publication, out now in Cognitive Science (@cogscisociety.bsky.social)

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Does Body‐Specificity Stand on Solid Ground? Z‐Curving the Association Between Emotional Valence and Lateral Space

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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Pablo Solana @p-solana.bsky.social · 5d

I'm particularly happy with this study as it's my first paper as last/supervising author 😳

Pablo Solana @p-solana.bsky.social · 5d

Interested in embodied cognition, abstract concepts, metaphors or meta-science? Check our latest publication, out now in Cognitive Science (@cogscisociety.bsky.social)

onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Does Body‐Specificity Stand on Solid Ground? Z‐Curving the Association Between Emotional Valence and Lateral Space

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...

onlinelibrary.wiley.com

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Pablo Solana @p-solana.bsky.social · 5d

Interested in embodied cognition, abstract concepts, metaphors or meta-science? Check our latest publication, out now in Cognitive Science (@cogscisociety.bsky.social)

onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Does Body‐Specificity Stand on Solid Ground? Z‐Curving the Association Between Emotional Valence and Lateral Space

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...

onlinelibrary.wiley.com

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Pablo Solana @p-solana.bsky.social · Aug 16

Can I quote that last sentence at the beginning of my dissertation?

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Francisco Garre-Frutos @frangfr.bsky.social · Aug 16

Reading reviews from different authors helps mitigate cherry-picking, but I still don’t know how credible their arguments are because I don’t know how trustworthy the underlying empirical evidence is. To some extent, science involves some kind of faith, whether we like it or not.

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Francisco Garre-Frutos @frangfr.bsky.social · Aug 10

Following the controversy surrounding the p-curve technique, I wanted to better understand how the z-curve (a technique that solves several problems with the p-curve) works. I created a Bayesian version of the z-curve in Stan, and I'm quite pleased with the outcome 🙂

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Irina Giurgea @dirinagiurgea.bsky.social · Jul 31

✨️Excited to share my first paper is out in Behavior Research Methods with @rjbinney.bsky.social and @pennypexman.bsky.social! We quantified the association of a word's meaning with reward, showing that it is a dimension relevant to semantic processing.
📄🔗Link: rdcu.be/eyqvn

Reward as a facet of word meaning: Ratings of motivation for 8,601 English words

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Pablo Solana @p-solana.bsky.social · Jul 20

📢 New version of this preprint available:

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Pablo Solana @p-solana.bsky.social · Apr 10

🚨 New preprint from the lab (and my first one as supervising/last author!)

Check it out if you're interested in grounded cognition and/or abstract concepts:

•Does Body-Specificity Stand on Solid Ground? Z-curving the Association Between Emotional Valence and Lateral Space•

osf.io/preprints/ps...

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Carlos González-García @gonzalezgarcia.bsky.social · Jul 18

🚨 We’re hiring a postdoc!
Join the FLARE project @cimcyc.bsky.social to study sudden perceptual learning using fMRI, RSA, and DNNs.
🧠 2 years, fully funded, flexible start
More info 👉 gonzalezgarcia.github.io/postdoc/

DMs or emails welcome! Please share!

Postdoc Position – FLARE Project

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Ciencia Cognitiva @cienciacog.bsky.social · Jun 30

Lo que un puñado de judías nos enseñó sobre el lenguaje www.cienciacognitiva.org?p=2541

Lo que un puñado de judías nos enseñó sobre el lenguaje | Ciencia Cognitiva

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Luis Cásedas @lcasedas.bsky.social · Jul 2

What is consciousness? What are the challenges of studying it scientifically? Can we ‘dissolve’ them? @anilseth.bsky.social gives us some answers in this new #INMINDS interview for @cienciacog.bsky.social about *problems of consciousness (and how to handle them)*! www.cienciacognitiva.org?p=2549

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Guille Tomás @guicre27.bsky.social · Jun 17

¿Sabías que en la mitología griega, Mnemósyne (diosa de la MEMORIA) dio vida a las musas, encargadas de la producción artística y la CREATIVIDAD🎭🎨🎼?

¡Pues las musas me han inspirado para investigar con CIENCIA, en mi tesis, cómo las ideas creativas proceden de la memoria! #hilotesis

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Rocío VC (She/her) @rociovc.bsky.social · Jun 17

¿Nos están transformando las nuevas tecnologías?

📱 Mensajes, imágenes, videos al instante
🤖 La IA crea, responde y simula
🪞 Nuevas culturas
🚀 Un clic puede hacer algo viral

🧵 #HiloTesis 👇

@crueuniversidades.bsky.social @filarramendi.bsky.social
@cimcyc.bsky.social @universidadgranada.bsky.social

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Psicológica Journal @psicologicajournal.bsky.social · Jun 17

New publication! Gutiérrez-Blanco, F., Palenciano, A.F., Ruz, M. (2025). Hand movements reveal the time course of gender stereotypes during facial categorization. Psicologíca 46(2): e17298 psicologicajournal.com/hand-movemen...

Hand movements reveal the time course of gender stereotypes during facial categorization - Psicológica

Our prior knowledge of what is about to occur, or […]

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Mind, Brain and Behavior Research Center - CIMCYC @cimcyc.bsky.social · May 28

🧠 Looking to advance your career in neuroscience?

👉 Train at the CIMCYC, one of Europe’s top brain research centers.

📢 Applications now open for the Master’s Degree in Cognitive and Behavioral Neuroscience at the @universidadgranada.bsky.social

1-year official program - 60 ECTS

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Pablo Solana @p-solana.bsky.social · May 14

Not sure if this works: we found publication bias for brain stimulation studies of embodied language comprehension, but using a novel meta-analytic technique (z-curve analysis) that differs from the more usual approaches.

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Mind, Brain and Behavior Research Center - CIMCYC @cimcyc.bsky.social · May 12

We are happy to announce our👉International Doctoral Summer School: Neuroscience of Eating Behavior and Excess Weight.

📍It is a five-day event during which leading academics will address the research on the characterisation and intervention of eating behavior and excess weight.

📆June 2 to 6, 2025

CIMCYC International Doctoral Summer School: Neuroscience of Eating Behavior and Excess Weight

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...

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Pablo Solana @p-solana.bsky.social · Apr 28

New paper out now in Journal of Memory and Language!

Across 3 experiments, we observed that the lateral mental timeline (past-left/future-right) only arise when time is relevant for the task, thus challenging the automaticy of this cognitive metaphor

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Gabriella Vigliocco @gabriellavigliocco.bsky.social · Apr 22

There is still time until tomorrow to apply for a 4-year Research Fellow post in the Language and Cognition Lab @ UCL!

Gabriella Vigliocco @gabriellavigliocco.bsky.social · Apr 2

Join us in London! The Language and Cognition Lab (with @fourtassi.bsky.social, Yan Gu) is looking for a Research Fellow for 4-years to work on how children and adults from different cultures learn in social interaction.
Ad is here (www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DMN891/r...). DM if you have any question!

Research Fellow in Social Learning at UCL

Discover Research Fellow in Social Learning jobs and more in higher education on jobs.ac.uk. Apply for further details on the top job board.

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Francisco Garre-Frutos @frangfr.bsky.social · Apr 16

New paper out! Here, we show that the inclusion of rewards or punishments contingent on performance can significantly modulate the extinction process of value-related attentional biases. With Adriana Ariza, Felisa González, and yours truly. link.springer.com/article/10.1...

The effect of reward and punishment on the extinction of attentional capture elicited by value-related stimuli - Psychological Research

Particular features of the stimuli that predict significant outcomes tend to capture our attention in a rather automatic and inflexible way. This form of attention has been described as a Pavlovian bi...

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PsyArXivBot @psyarxivbot.bsky.social · Apr 10

Does Body-Specificity Stand on Solid Ground? Z-curving the Association Between Emotional Valence and Lateral Space: https://osf.io/5snup

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Pablo Solana @p-solana.bsky.social · Apr 10

🚨 New preprint from the lab (and my first one as supervising/last author!)

Check it out if you're interested in grounded cognition and/or abstract concepts:

•Does Body-Specificity Stand on Solid Ground? Z-curving the Association Between Emotional Valence and Lateral Space•

osf.io/preprints/ps...

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Francisco Garre-Frutos @frangfr.bsky.social · Apr 3

New Preprint! According to perceptual load theory, irrelevant distractor information is not processed under high perceptual load. We show that the presence of a distractor accelerates search under high load, and this effect is modulated by target-distractor distance, reflecting attentional capture.

PsyArXivBot @psyarxivbot.bsky.social · Apr 3

Facilitation by Irrelevant Distractors Under High Perceptual Load: Suppression or Controlled Attentional Capture?: https://osf.io/xq2h8

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Mind, Brain and Behavior Research Center - CIMCYC @cimcyc.bsky.social · Apr 1

Queen Letizia, the Secretary of State for Health, Javier Padilla and other public authorities visited us today.

It was an opportunity to discuss CIMCYC's research excellence and its impact on people's lives and on the advancement of knowledge in psychology.

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Mind, Brain and Behavior Research Center - CIMCYC @cimcyc.bsky.social · Mar 27

Our Cognitive Neuroscience Research Group has been distinguished with the Social Council Award of the @universidadgranada.bsky.social, recognizing its outstanding research work and impact on the dissemination and transfer of knowledge.

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The Social Council of the University of Granada awarded the Cognitive Neuroscience Group

The Cognitive Neuroscience Research Group (HUM-379) of the Mind, Brain and Behavior Research Center has been distinguished with the XXIII edition of the Social Council Award, in recognition of its out...

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