Pablo Solana
@p-solana.bsky.social
PhD student at the University of Granada 🧠
Experimental Psychology | Cognitive Neuroscience | Language | Embodied Cognition | TMS | Metascience.
Experimental Psychology | Cognitive Neuroscience | Language | Embodied Cognition | TMS | Metascience.
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Pablo Solana
@p-solana.bsky.social
· Oct 3
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
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/...
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
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What does it mean to understand language? We argue that the brain’s core language system is limited, and that *deeply* understanding language requires EXPORTING info to other brain regions.
w/ @neuranna.bsky.social @evfedorenko.bsky.social @nancykanwisher.bsky.social
arxiv.org/abs/2511.19757
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w/ @neuranna.bsky.social @evfedorenko.bsky.social @nancykanwisher.bsky.social
arxiv.org/abs/2511.19757
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What does it mean to understand language?
Language understanding entails not just extracting the surface-level meaning of the linguistic input, but constructing rich mental models of the situation it describes. Here we propose that because pr...
arxiv.org
November 26, 2025 at 4:26 PM
What does it mean to understand language? We argue that the brain’s core language system is limited, and that *deeply* understanding language requires EXPORTING info to other brain regions.
w/ @neuranna.bsky.social @evfedorenko.bsky.social @nancykanwisher.bsky.social
arxiv.org/abs/2511.19757
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w/ @neuranna.bsky.social @evfedorenko.bsky.social @nancykanwisher.bsky.social
arxiv.org/abs/2511.19757
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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
Reposted by Pablo Solana
Por si la maravilla de Ecuación Triunfo no hubiese sido suficiente... Vuelve Psicometríes Temporada 3:
👩🔬PACIENCIA PA' LA CIENCIA🪴
Una docu-serie sobre nuestra vida como predocs:
youtu.be/Bq2jfRphg9Y
[subtítulos disponibles]
👩🔬PACIENCIA PA' LA CIENCIA🪴
Una docu-serie sobre nuestra vida como predocs:
youtu.be/Bq2jfRphg9Y
[subtítulos disponibles]
Documental "Paciencia Pa La Ciencia" - Próximamente...
YouTube video by Psicometríes
youtu.be
November 25, 2025 at 8:15 AM
Por si la maravilla de Ecuación Triunfo no hubiese sido suficiente... Vuelve Psicometríes Temporada 3:
👩🔬PACIENCIA PA' LA CIENCIA🪴
Una docu-serie sobre nuestra vida como predocs:
youtu.be/Bq2jfRphg9Y
[subtítulos disponibles]
👩🔬PACIENCIA PA' LA CIENCIA🪴
Una docu-serie sobre nuestra vida como predocs:
youtu.be/Bq2jfRphg9Y
[subtítulos disponibles]
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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).
Reposted by Pablo Solana
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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🧠 ¿Quieres saber más sobre la relación entre el deporte y el cerebro? 🏃
👥 Llega el nuevo encuentro de PsychoBeers: "Deporte y Cerebro" con Luis Ciria y Mikel Zabala
🗓️ 28 de octubre
🕣 20:30 h
📍 Sala Planta Baja
ℹ️ Info: http://sl.ugr.es/PsychoBeersUGR
👥 Llega el nuevo encuentro de PsychoBeers: "Deporte y Cerebro" con Luis Ciria y Mikel Zabala
🗓️ 28 de octubre
🕣 20:30 h
📍 Sala Planta Baja
ℹ️ Info: http://sl.ugr.es/PsychoBeersUGR
October 27, 2025 at 3:03 PM
🧠 ¿Quieres saber más sobre la relación entre el deporte y el cerebro? 🏃
👥 Llega el nuevo encuentro de PsychoBeers: "Deporte y Cerebro" con Luis Ciria y Mikel Zabala
🗓️ 28 de octubre
🕣 20:30 h
📍 Sala Planta Baja
ℹ️ Info: http://sl.ugr.es/PsychoBeersUGR
👥 Llega el nuevo encuentro de PsychoBeers: "Deporte y Cerebro" con Luis Ciria y Mikel Zabala
🗓️ 28 de octubre
🕣 20:30 h
📍 Sala Planta Baja
ℹ️ Info: http://sl.ugr.es/PsychoBeersUGR
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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 Pablo Solana
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/...
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
October 3, 2025 at 2:11 PM
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/...
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
I'm particularly happy with this study as it's my first paper as last/supervising author 😳
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/...
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
October 3, 2025 at 2:13 PM
I'm particularly happy with this study as it's my first paper as last/supervising author 😳
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/...
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
October 3, 2025 at 2:11 PM
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/...
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
Reposted by Pablo Solana
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.
August 16, 2025 at 4:31 PM
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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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 🙂
August 10, 2025 at 8:03 PM
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 🙂
Reposted by Pablo Solana
✨️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
📄🔗Link: rdcu.be/eyqvn
Reward as a facet of word meaning: Ratings of motivation for 8,601 English words
rdcu.be
July 31, 2025 at 10:01 AM
✨️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
📄🔗Link: rdcu.be/eyqvn
🚨 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...
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...
OSF
osf.io
July 20, 2025 at 10:24 AM
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🚨 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!
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
gonzalezgarcia.github.io
July 18, 2025 at 11:17 AM
🚨 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!
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!
Reposted by Pablo Solana
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
www.cienciacognitiva.org
June 30, 2025 at 9:52 AM
Lo que un puñado de judías nos enseñó sobre el lenguaje www.cienciacognitiva.org?p=2541
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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
July 2, 2025 at 2:58 PM
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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¿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
¡Pues las musas me han inspirado para investigar con CIENCIA, en mi tesis, cómo las ideas creativas proceden de la memoria! #hilotesis
a picture of a group of people with the words " we are the muses "
ALT: a picture of a group of people with the words " we are the muses "
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June 17, 2025 at 11:46 AM
¿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
¡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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¿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
📱 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
a cartoon minion wearing goggles and overalls is standing on a wooden floor
ALT: a cartoon minion wearing goggles and overalls is standing on a wooden floor
media.tenor.com
June 17, 2025 at 8:11 PM
¿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
📱 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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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 […]
psicologicajournal.com
June 17, 2025 at 9:30 AM
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...
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🧠 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
👉 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
May 28, 2025 at 1:46 PM
🧠 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
👉 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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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
📍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...
cimcyc.ugr.es
May 12, 2025 at 12:21 PM
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
📍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
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
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
April 28, 2025 at 7:34 AM
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
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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There is still time until tomorrow to apply for a 4-year Research Fellow post in the Language and Cognition Lab @ UCL!
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!
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.
www.jobs.ac.uk
April 22, 2025 at 3:49 PM
There is still time until tomorrow to apply for a 4-year Research Fellow post in the Language and Cognition Lab @ UCL!
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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...
link.springer.com
April 16, 2025 at 7:49 AM
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...