Pablo Martínez-López

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

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"...

Out now in Cortex! 🧠✨️ Grounding meaning in social and emotional experience: Challenges and opportunities authors.elsevier.com/a/1nq5R_FxMe...

So… we just found out that GPT sol can complete a complex online behavioral/cognitive study producing nearly indistinguishable behavior and subjective reports… right as we are about to launch. Is this doomsday for online cognitive testing?

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

We are hiring a postdoc and a predoc to do research (EEG, fMRI, MVPA, RSA) on expectation and attention at the wpd.ugr.es/~humneuro/ in beautiful Granada @cimcyc.bsky.social ! People with interest + relevant experience please reach us at mruz@ugr.es #NeuroJobs #AcademicJobs #CogNeuro #GranadaSpain

Globally, the hottest August in observed history is just about to end. In Western Europe, the summer of 2026 (June, July, August) has been the warmest as well. Compared to this year, 1976 (the famous UK summer) and 2003 (the hottest EU summer so far) look like amateurs in terms of heat (1/2)

All four books I've co-authored are freely available online for non-commercial use: - Bayesian Workflow at avehtari.github.io/Bayesian-Wor... Links to other three books are in the quoted post 👇 (too many books to fit in one post!)

@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...

New Blog post: Which Data Repository Should you Use? In light of OSF closing down, I compare Zenodo, Dataverse, ResearchBox, PsychArchive, and local repositories on six important dimensions. If you want to know which to pick: It depends! daniellakens.blogspot.com/2026/08/whic...

Over the next several months, we will phase out some popular OSF features. These changes do not affect current public content, which remains safe and accessible. We have prepared support material to help users adapt. I am very sorry for the disruption to your work. Please read this post for details.

New preprint from the lab. We think we have a solution (two, actually) to a long-standing problem in the field of response inhibition. Using two different mathematical approaches, we think we can identify long-hypothesized inhibitory 'trigger failure' trials. More in🧵 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

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!!!

A little update to this thread: our preprint is now officially published in JNeuro! We show that behavioural benefits from multisensory stimulation persist during sleep onset, even as neural dynamics change. Huge thanks to the amazing team 🫶 www.jneurosci.org/content/earl...

We make flexible choices in new situations by knitting together information from separate relevant memories. But what governs which memories are retrieved and when? In a new preprint, we captured how people build decision variables from different memories by tracking their gaze on a blank screen.

We had a great time at the first meeting of the habit network REHPE. Here some pics of the lab's posters

Finally, our paper is out! Together with @aliciafrancomnez.bsky.social, Javier Revuelta, and @mavadillo.bsky.social, we extend hierarchical factor models for skewed RTs and task validation, now in Psychological Methods: doi.org/10.1037/met0... Let me briefly explain what we did and why it matters!

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...

The Experimental Study of Habitual Behavior in Humans: A Review of the Validity of Current Protocols: https://osf.io/r62pa

Our very first Registered Report has been published! 🎉 In short, we failed to replicate the Construal Level Theory's tenet that spatial distance promotes abstraction... ...but we provide novel evidence for a link between religiosity and abstraction. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

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...

Recent preprint with Oriel FeldmanHall and Matt Nassar, showing clear neural evidence that adolescent (13-15 yrs) social media and smartphones use are associated with blunted reward signaling in the ventral striatum, the brain's reward processing hub, and worse mental health. osf.io/preprints/ps...

🔴🔴 Primer evento de la SPRN (Spanish Reproducibility Network 🔴🔴 Panel de gente súper interesante, incluyendo a @flavioazevedo.bsky.social y muchos más! También llevamos representación de @reproducibiliteaum.bsky.social 😊 Inscribios y difundid!!

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"

Theorizing After the Results are Known "TARKing: a practice whereby researchers alter, exchange, add, or remove theoretical frameworks post hoc not only to achieve greater consistency with their findings but, more importantly, to conform to reviewer suggestions." doi.org/10.1017/iop....

If you’ve ever considered leading a multisite study but weren’t sure where to start, I hope our new paper in @collabrapsychology.bsky.social can help! 🔗https://doi.org/10.1525/collabra.159983

Good news everyone 🥳 Our (w @vincentab.bsky.social) primer on models as prediction machines (with the marginaleffects package) is finally officially published!> journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

We're hiring! Looking for a postdoc to work at UNSW Sydney, studying impacts of reward and information on attention, using eye-tracking, EEG, and modelling - with Kelly Garner, Daniel Pearson and me. Application link below, please spread the word! external-careers.jobs.unsw.edu.au/cw/en/job/53...

Applications are now open for the 12th Model-Based Neuroscience & Cognition Summer School (Aug 10–14, 2026, Amsterdam)! modelbasedneurosci.com Hands-on training in combining Bayesian evidence-accumulation models with reinforcement learning, brain–behavior modeling (EEG/fMRI), BayesFlow, and more.

Happy to share our new preprint on Pavlovian attentional biases ⬇️ Amazing work with people I really enjoy working with

Although reward signals are believed to capture attention in an inflexible and automatic fashion, in this preprint we demonstrate through three experiments and some computational modelling that verbal instructions can trigger model-based revaluation processes. osf.io/preprints/ps...

🗣️ ¡Charla! Recursos y recomendaciones para sobrevivir (y disfrutar) liderando un “manylabs”. La ponente @aliciafrancomnez.bsky.social  (@uam.es ) tratará acerca de proyectos multisite y ciencia colaborativa. Los socios podéis acceder a través de https://forms.gle/sopq3gBi8EeQHqQ68

Interested in habit learning? Please take a look at the meeting "Habits: Behaviour, neurons and clinical evidence" 📍Madrid, 📆June-15. 👷‍♂️Organized by @iobeso.bsky.social and the REHPE (Experimental Psychology Network to Study Habits). 🙏Please share the info! Web: sites.google.com/view/habit-r...

🚨🚨 We are hiring a Postdoc at CIMCYC – University of Granada (Spain) 🚨🚨 2 year position in Neuroscience of Human Experience Building new ways to study lived experience as it unfolds in time and maps onto brain, body and behavior Please share‼️

Entrevista en @sermalaga.bsky.social sobre nuestro reciente artículo en Behavior Research Methods link.springer.com/article/10.3...

I'm so excited to share our new paper! 🎉 After ten years in the making, it's finally out in Journal of Memory and Language! We present preliminary evidence that perturbing motor activity shapes how people conceptualize the meaning of action sentences. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... 1/7

I don't know what annoys me more: 'Data upon request' or raw data shared in a format that makes reproducibility nearly impossible. At least the former doesn't waste your time 🫠

The Iowa Gambling Task is an extreme example of Jingle Fallacy and schmeasurement. In 100 articles we found 244 different ways of scoring it, 177 were never reused. Correlations between them range -.99 to .99. At the same time, we show meta-analyses combine these results as if they’re equivalent.

Comparing registrations to published papers is essential to research integrity - and almost no one does it routinely because it's slow, messy, and time-demanding. RegCheck was built to help make this process easier. Today, we launch RegCheck V2. 🧵 regcheck.app

So happy this is finally out, almost 4 years in the making! academic.oup.com/nc/article/2... A celebration of open and collaborative science: 📜Replicating the unconscious working memory effect: a multisite Registered Report Thank you so much to the 48 coauthors of the uWM project!🇬🇦

“These findings provide clear evidence that data collected on MTurk simply cannot be trusted.”

Two years ago, I had an idea, one that evolved over time as I kept reading and learning. Today, a major first part of that idea has just become my first PhD preprint, now publicly available on PsyArxiv. Let me tell you a bit more about the story behind it... while I prepare the submission.

A Unified Framework for Psychometrics in Experimental Psychology: The Standardized Generalized Hierarchical Factor Model: https://osf.io/gv6k7

New paper just dropped about sticks and carrots in climate policy: “Policy carrots alone do not dramatically reduce future emissions. Only with policy sticks are there unambiguous signals to substantially shrink the size of incumbent fossil fuel industries.”

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...