A5067539717- Neural and Behavioral Psychology Studies
- Memory and Neural Mechanisms
- Neural dynamics and brain function
- Child and Animal Learning Development
- Memory Processes and Influences
- Decision-Making and Behavioral Economics
- EEG and Brain-Computer Interfaces
- Visual perception and processing mechanisms
- Behavioral Health and Interventions
- Olfactory and Sensory Function Studies
- Functional Brain Connectivity Studies
- Mental Health Research Topics
- Occupational Health and Safety Research
- Linguistic research and analysis
- Multisensory perception and integration
- Face Recognition and Perception
- Reading and Literacy Development
- Anxiety, Depression, Psychometrics, Treatment, Cognitive Processes
- Eating Disorders and Behaviors
- Neuroscience and Music Perception
- Cognitive Abilities and Testing
- Receptor Mechanisms and Signaling
- Visual and Cognitive Learning Processes
- Neurobiology of Language and Bilingualism
- Experimental Behavioral Economics Studies
Universidad de Málaga
2015-2024
Universidad Autónoma de Madrid
2018-2024
Instituto de Investigación Biomédica de Málaga
2013-2024
Universidad Rey Juan Carlos
2023-2024
UNSW Sydney
2013-2022
Texas A&M University
2021
Tel Aviv University
2021
Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz
2021
The University of Texas of the Permian Basin
2021
Karolinska Institutet
2021
There is growing awareness across the neuroscience community that replicability of findings about relationship between brain activity and cognitive phenomena can be improved by conducting studies with high statistical power adhere to well-defined standardised analysis pipelines. Inspired recent efforts from psychological sciences, desire examine some foundational using electroencephalography (EEG), we have launched #EEGManyLabs, a large-scale international collaborative replication effort....
Efference copies refer to internal duplicates of movement-producing neural signals. Their primary function is predict, and often suppress, the sensory consequences willed movements. have been almost exclusively investigated in context overt The current electrophysiological study employed a novel design show that inner speech – silent production words one’s mind also associated with an efference copy. Participants produced phoneme at precisely specified time, which audible was concurrently...
Abstract The neural basis of feedback expectation, which is crucial in learning theory, has only been minimally studied. Stimulus‐preceding negativity ( SPN ), an ERP component that appears prior to the presentation feedback, proposed as being related expectation. present study showed, for first time, amplitude modulations during acquisition a trial‐by‐trial associative task. results indicate could be plausible electrophysiological index cognitive processes engaged while expecting appearance...
Reward-learning theory views habits as stimulus-response links formed through extended reward training.Accordingly, animal research has shown that actions are initially goaldirected can become habitual after operant overtraining.However, a similar demonstration is absent in human research, which poses serious problem for translational models of behavior.We propose response-time (RT) switch cost training be used new, reliable marker the operation habit system humans.Using new method, we show...
Attentional theories of associative learning and categorization propose that about the predictiveness a stimulus influences amount attention is paid to stimulus.Three experiments tested this idea by looking at extent which stimuli had previously been experienced as predictive or nonpredictive in task were able capture dot probe task.Consistent with certain attentional learning, responses faster when it appeared location cued compared stimulus.This result was obtained only short (250 350ms)...
Recent research has shown that perceptual processing of stimuli previously associated with high-value rewards is automatically prioritized even when are no longer available. It been hypothesized such reward-related modulation stimulus salience conceptually similar to an “attentional habit.” Recording event-related potentials in humans during a reinforcement learning task, we show strong evidence favor this hypothesis. Resistance outcome devaluation (the defining feature habit) was by the...
System memory consolidation is conceptualized as an active process whereby newly encoded representations are strengthened through selective reactivation during sleep. However, our learning experience highly overlapping in content (i.e., shares common elements), and memories of these events organized intricate network associated events. It remains to be explored whether how sleep has impact on acquired awake time. Here, we test a group adult women men the prediction that entails this may lead...
Abstract The additional singleton task has become a popular paradigm to explore visual statistical learning and selective attention. In this task, participants are instructed find different-shaped target among series of distractors as fast possible. some trials, the search display includes distractor with different color, making more difficult. This appears often in one location than remaining locations. typical results these experiments show that learn ignore area screen is likely contain...
Abstract Feedback-related negativity (FRN) is an ERP component that distinguishes positive from negative feedback. FRN has been hypothesized to be the product of error signal may used adjust future behavior. In addition, associative learning models assume trial-to-trial cue–outcome mappings involves minimization term. This study evaluated whether a possible electrophysiological correlate this term in predictive task where human subjects were asked learn different relationships. Specifically,...
Cognitive illusions are often associated with mental health and well-being. However, they not without risk. This research shows can interfere the acquisition of evidence-based knowledge. During first phase experiment, one group participants was induced to develop a strong illusion that placebo medicine effective treat fictitious disease, whereas another weak illusion. Then, in Phase 2, both groups observed patients who always took bogus treatment simultaneously second which effective. Our...
A large body of research has shown that learning about relationships between neutral stimuli and events significance - rewards or punishments influences the extent to which people attend those in future. However, different accounts this influence differ terms critical variable is proposed determine learned changes attention. We describe two experiments using eye-tracking with a rewarded visual search procedure investigate whether attentional capture influenced by predictiveness (i.e., they...
It has been suggested that attention is guided by two factors operate during associative learning: a predictiveness principle, which allocated to the best predictors of outcomes, and an uncertainty learn about less known features environment. Recent studies have shown predictiveness-driven can rapidly in automatic way exploit relationships. The corresponding characteristics uncertainty-driven attention, on other hand, remain unexplored. In experiments we examined whether both modulate...
In probabilistic cuing of visual search, participants search for a target object that appears more frequently in one region the display.This task results bias towards rich quadrant compared with other quadrants.Previous research suggests this is inflexible (difficult to unlearn) and implicit (participants are unaware biased distribution targets).We tested these hypotheses two preregistered, high-powered experiments (Ns = 160 162).In an initial stage, performed standard task.In subsequent...
There is growing awareness across the neuroscience community that replicability of findings on relationship between brain activity and cognitive phenomena can be improved by conducting studies with high statistical power adhere to well-defined standardized analysis pipelines. Inspired efforts from psychological sciences, desire examine some foundational using electroencephalography (EEG), we have launched #EEGManyLabs, a large-scale international collaborative replication effort. Since its...
The N2pc is widely employed as an electrophysiological marker of attention allocation. This interpretation was largely driven by the observation elicited isolated relevant target object, which reported Experiment 2 in Eimer (1996). All subsequent refined interpretations had to take this crucial finding into account. Despite its central role for neurocognitive research, there have been no direct replications and only few conceptual seminal work. Within context #EEGManyLabs, international...
In experimental psychology and behavioral neuroscience, habits are considered stimulus-response (S-R) associations formed through extended reward training. Accordingly, assessed using one of two tests: 1) Outcome devaluation, in which the value outcome (reward) is reduced, making it less desirable, 2) Contingency degradation, response-outcome association reversed so that responding prevents delivery a reward. If behavior controlled by S-R links, then should remain unaffected these...
To override ongoing habitual responses requires switching well-learned actions with new goal-directed processing. However, the neural circuits responsible for these processes remain unclear. This study infers habit strength by introducing a novel task capturing increased cost associated response. We employed neuroimaging and brain stimulation to examine dynamic interactions between human regions involved in habits their interference incompatible behavior. Training S-R links overtrained...
In experimental psychology and behavioral neuroscience, habits are considered stimulus-response (S-R) associations formed through extended reward training. Accordingly, assessed using one of two tests: 1) Outcome devaluation, in which the value outcome (reward) is reduced, making it less desirable, 2) Contingency degradation, response-outcome association reversed so that responding prevents delivery a reward. If behavior controlled by S-R links, then should remain unaffected these...
To override ongoing habitual responses requires switching well-learned actions with new goal-directed processing. However, the neural circuits responsible for these processes remain unclear. This study infers habit strength by introducing a novel task capturing increased cost associated response. We employed neuroimaging and brain stimulation to examine dynamic interactions between human regions involved in habits their interference incompatible behavior. Training S-R links overtrained...
Animal research has shown that repeatedly performing a rewarded action leads to its transition into habit—an inflexible response controlled by stimulus-response associations. Efforts reproduce this principle in human populations have yielded mixed results. Only two laboratory paradigms successfully demonstrated behavior habitualization following extensive instrumental training compared minimal conditions: the forced-response task and ‘aliens’ outcome-devaluation task. Notably, these measure...
Animal research has shown that repeatedly performing a rewarded action leads to its transition into habit—an inflexible response controlled by stimulus-response associations. Efforts reproduce this principle in human populations have yielded mixed results. Only two laboratory paradigms successfully demonstrated behavior habitualization following extensive instrumental training compared minimal conditions: the forced-response task and ‘aliens’ outcome-devaluation task. Notably, these measure...
The N2pc is widely employed as an electrophysiological marker of attention allocation. This interpretation was largely driven by the observation elicited isolated relevant target object, which reported Experiment 2 in Eimer (1996). All subsequent refined interpretations had to take this crucial finding into account. Despite its central role for neurocognitive research, there have been no direct replications and only few conceptual seminal work. Within context #EEGManyLabs, international...
The N2pc is widely employed as an electrophysiological marker of attention allocation. This interpretation was largely driven by the observation elicited isolated relevant target object, which reported Experiment 2 in Eimer (1996). All subsequent refined interpretations had to take this crucial finding into account. Despite its central role for neurocognitive research, there have been no direct replications and only few conceptual seminal work. Within context #EEGManyLabs, international...