EvoCog @evocog.bsky.social
@evocog
Human Evolution and Cognition Lab 🦍 @UIBuniversitat 🎓 Neuroaesthetics 🦚 Interoception 🧠 Social Cognition 🗣 Moral judgements ⚖️
Organizing #IAEA2024 in our city was a true honor 🎩✨ A heartfelt thanks to our local committee members Enric Munar, Marcos Nadal, @Ana__Clemente, @AlexGalvezPol, @BaronePamel & @ErickkGustavo4 🍾
We are especially grateful to the organisers of #IAEA2024 ✨ for a very successful and fun conference in Palma de Mallorca! 🏝️ @evocog well deserved!! ⚽️👏🏻
Does reflecting on the consequences of real-world controversies shift moral opinions? Does it lead to progress or, at least, consensus? Find out in our @cogsci_soc blog post: cognitivesciencesociety.org/consequences-a… w/ Bystranowski, @moralsciencelab & @ruetxe
New paper: The role of taste–shape correspondences and semantic congruence in product preference and taste expectations brill.com/view/journals/… with @ErickkGustavo4, N. Veflen., @evocog
Excited to announce my move to @LiverpoolHopeUK! Lots to do, clearly sleepless, but priorities first: We offer a new MSc program in #cogition and #aesthetics, and I know it'll be great. Spread the word 🙌 hope.ac.uk/postgraduate/p…
We are seeking a postdoctoral researcher to join the Brain, Body, and Self Lab at Karolinska Institutet. For details, see the link below. Application deadline: March 17 ki.varbi.com/what:job/jobID…
How stable are taste-shape crossmodal correspondences over time? Farhana Tabassum, Erick G. Chuquichambi, Charles Spence, Enric Munar, and Carlos Velasco buff.ly/41yYD1w @xmodal @velascop @evocog @ErickkGustavo4
How stable are taste-shape crossmodal correspondences over time? 🥨 @velascop @ErickkGustavo4 journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/17…
Aesthetic experience has traditionally been considered a unique kind of experience that occurs when people view specific objects such as artwork. A Perspective in @NatRevPsych emphasizes its similarities to other types of experience. 🔒 go.nature.com/3CQ8fe3
Outstanding perspective 🔝
The sensory valuation account of aesthetic experience Perspective by Marcos Nadal & Martin Skov Web: go.nature.com/3ZfccAG PDF: rdcu.be/d13QD
🔵 El Consell de Direcció de la #UIB ha decidit deixar de publicar informació a la xarxa social X. La pèrdua de reputació de la xarxa dificulta la difusió d’informació institucional i de recerca. A més, l’opacitat dels algoritmes promou la polarització, desinformació i discurs…
📢 The CFP for the Basel-Singapore BioXPhi Summit is now open. Dealine for talks and posters: January, 31. Link in comments ⬇️
"The sensory valuation account of aesthetic experience". @NatRevPsych @NaturePortfolio nature.com/articles/s4415…
🙋♀️I contributed to this book too with the paper "The inappropriateness of fans’ blame". Using Spanish singer Aitana’s case, I show how fans’ blame can expose latent prejudices, like misogyny. Many thanks to Roy Galán & @AlfredArcher2 for discussion and inspiration.
New publication! Excited to see the published version of my paper "Celebrity and Honesty: Do They Go Hand in Hand?" This is one of the papers I have enjoyed working on the most in recent years. I even quote Justin Bieber in it! Much thanks to @AlfredArcher2, Catherine Robb, and…
📢New paper! Do we shift our views on bioethical issues after reflecting on consequences? TLDR: Yes, but not as we predicted. Reflecting on consequences does NOT make views more progressive or unified. w/ Bystranowski, @moralsciencelab & @ruetxe 🔓dx.doi.org/10.1111/cogs.7…
📢 New PhD position open in our department.
PhD candidate position: 36 months at the Psychology Dept. of the University of the Balearic Islands (UIB) websepex.com/2024/11/13/phd…
Dear all I'm hiring a PhD candidate (3 years) to work in Active Sensing, EEG & Interoception! 🧠🫀🫁 This is a great opportunity: beautiful campus, novel research. In collab. with the Max Planck Inst (@michagaebler) Deadline: 22/11/24 +info: alexgalvezpol.com/joinlab/ PleaseRT
Convocatoria de dos plazas de Profesor Ayudante Doctor en Psicología Básica, Universidad de las Islas Baleares (UIB) websepex.com/2024/11/04/con…
People like round contours better than angular contours. Where and how is curvature represented in the brain? With indoor architecture we found a neural dissociation between subjective curvature and computational curvature. nature.com/articles/s4159… @DelaFarzanfar @mskov01
Evocog is at @SEPEX13 with interesting new research 🫀🧠 #SEPEX2024 🤠


Today at #SEPEX24 Enric Munar and I will present research work on visual perception and interoception, respectively. Come around! Room B: 5-6.30pm @PsicologiaUib @evocog
Muy contento de haber charlado en #NaukasPalma2024 sobre como la relación entre cerebro y cuerpo 🧠↔️♥️ moldea como vemos el mundo que nos rodea 👀 @Naukas_com @InvestigacioUIB