David Luque

Can less cognitive control help us learn? I'm excited to share our new Cell Reports paper. Using inhibitory rTMS in 95 adults, we found that inhibiting the right DLPFC—or both sides—improved learning of hidden statistical patterns. Inhibiting the left alone did not. www.cell.com/cell-reports...

Behavior Research Methods is looking for two editors-in-chief to begin in 2028. The deadline to apply is February 15, 2027. See more information: buff.ly/32f06z3.

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Hoy os traigo nuevo papercillo que nos acaban de publicar: Aplicamos una de nuestras IAs sesgadas al ámbito de un jurado popular simulado. La gente sigue a la IA aunque sea sesgada y contraria a su propia criterio Podemos revertirlo (en parte) bpspsychub.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Check out our W-ACE model: how we use Rescorla-Wagner to explain standard/reverse latent inhibition!!

New preprint: When should you use linear mixed models (LMMs), and when is repeated-measures (RM) ANOVA enough? LMMs offer greater flexibility. But does that make them a better default? My paper argues for statistical parsimony: use RM-ANOVA when both methods are appropriate. osf.io/preprints/ps...

2 yrs ago, I briefly laid out a new theory of how motivation works (AGH). Here, I expand on the problems AGH was trying to solve, why they are hard to solve, what my solution looks like, and how this should change our understanding of thoughts & actions. osf.io/preprints/ps... 🧵A few highlights:

Last Friday @nemeth.bsky.social visited our lab and gave a great talk, full with intriguing ideas and good science supporting them. Thanks so much Dezso! (The next one in Gran Canaria? 😁)

🧠 We are hiring 2 RAs to join a decoded neurofeedback project using fMRI & fNIRS to modulate emotional states. Please RT 📅 Deadline: Oct 8, 2026 🔗 www.bcbl.eu/en/join-us/j... #AcademicJobs #Neuroscience #fMRI #fNIRS

#introduction I'm currently a staff scientist at Washington U in St Louis (USA), but (late 2026, early 2027) looking for a new position. I'm a big fan of task #fMRI, #BIDS, #baseR #Rstats (incl. graphics) and #knitr, #QC, and papers with very extensive #supplementary materials, but not AI.

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

Human outcome-irrelevant value learning is insensitive to its monetary cost: https://osf.io/zyc8t

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

The current system is completely dead. I hope the EU do something. It is already too late.

This is an *excellent* post on cluster analysis. If you ever thought about applying cluster, latent class or latent profile analysis to psychological scales, you absolutely should read this!>

The fallacy that University leaders pushing AI are falling into is thinking that the point of undergraduate research is to find things out. It isn't. What students find out is typically already generally known. The point of undergraduate research is to learn how to find things out.

Hey our psychology department is recruiting an assistant professor in developmental psychology - please check it out universityvacancies.com/trinity-coll...

🧠 These results show that drowsiness does not disrupt sensory integration. 👉 They suggest that the fundamental operations for processing the environment are preserved, even as the supporting brain dynamics change. www.jneurosci.org/content/46/3...

LLMs are cognitive viruses that can depress collective cognitive competence. But by the same token, immunization is possible. arxiv.org/abs/2609.03344

A Spanish translation of my textbook Improving Your Statistical Inferences, made by Juan G. Fernández Fernández, is now available here: juangff85.github.io/inferencias-... I am very grateful Juan worked so hard to made the contents available to Spanish speakers!

@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...

This is too bad (OSF was too good to be true I guess). Science people, what are the alternatives to OSF for uploading and making public data and materials? Uni repository is, at least in Málaga, not ideal. Any file needs to be approved by admin staff what is that time consuming

Check out our new paper! 🧠 Me, @xiongbowu.bsky.social and @fuentemilla.bsky.social review how reactivation at the end of events support memory formation and propose it serves multiple functions from preventing interference to helping preserve temporal continuity! ✨ www.cell.com/trends/cogni...

¡¡ IMPORTANTE !! Ruego difundáis este artículo de @el_pais sobre el incumplimiento de la estabilización de lxs investigadorxs Ramón y Cajal. En él denuncio mi situación en @UPFBarcelona @LaiadeNadalUPF elpais.com/educacion/20... #rycenlucha

Check out @parnianrafei.bsky.social's work comparing the classic outcome devaluation and response remapping strategies to assess habits in humans. This study clarifies what each test assesses and is highly needed in this continuously-growing habit literature

Special issue on *The Right Hemisphere in Language* in #BrainAndLanguage . Submission deadline: 31 December 2026. More info here 👇 sciencedirect.com/special-issu...

Overreliance on habits is linked to maladaptive behaviors & clinical conditions. But are some people more habit-prone than others? Here, we tested the temporal stability of individual differences in both habit learning & expression. Our data suggest trait-like tendencies! osf.io/preprints/ps...

🗣️Gran preocupación por el Programa María Goyri tras suspenderse la Conferencia de Política Universitaria ❗En el aire la transferencia de 150 mill en 2026 a las CCAA para financiar 5.600 plazas de profesorado ayudante doctor a las universidades públicas 👇 www.crue.org/2026/07/comu... #LOSU #MICIU

Very proud of SIPS commendation to @aliciafrancomnez.bsky.social 's paper with guidelines and recommendations to ECRs running their first manylabs study.

Not to mention a second commendation to Psicometríes, with @ricardoreysaez.bsky.social and @igcastillejo.bsky.social. Congratulations!

The Cognition Group in the Psychology dept at Exeter are at risk of redundancy because "basic cognitive psychology research does not align with the current priorities of funding bodies" If you think this is overtly wrong and misguided, please sign this open letter docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

We revisited awareness in Decoded Neurofeedback using meta-analysis + LLM semantic analysis of Ps reports. Ps seemed unable to identify the trained target but their strategies were aligned with it! osf.io/preprints/ps... @hakwan.bsky.social @meganakpeters.bsky.social @mavadillo.bsky.social

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!!!

Doy fe elpais.com/ciencia/2026...

Message for government. It's great that you are improving pre and postdoc fellowships, and increasing the number of them. But uni staff are buried in teaching and admin work. We cannot supervise more people. Please, we need more permanent positions, more staff, so we can have time for doing research

🎉 Now published in Nature Communications! 🧠 We develop a novel computational reinforcement learning & habit model of Twitter data, and show that younger people & women are more behaviourally sensitive to 'Likes'. Read the paper: bit.ly/4f1vsKS

amigxs, por si os puede interesar: abierta la matrícula para el Máster de Formación Permanente en ÉTICA DE LA INTELIGENCIA ARTIFICIAL, una colaboración de la Universidad Carlos III de Madrid y el Instituto de Filosofía del CSIC. Toda la información aquí: www.uc3m.es/formacion-pe...

Solid rejection of "counting" and "statistical inference" abilities in nonhuman animals, from crows to chimps & pigeons. #animalcognition "associative learning models are a powerful tool in animal cognition research, often capable of unmatched quantitative accuracy." doi.org/10.1037/rev0...

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

We've known that socioeconomics (SES) matters for the 🧠. New & 🤯 is that SES drowns out all other brain associations, incl. IQ. If you train an algorithm to predict IQ from brain data, it's still way better at predicting SES. Science Mag: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... @smarek0502.bsky.social 👀🧵👇