Hand movements reveal the time course of gender stereotypes during facial categorization. 

Gutiérrez-Blanco, F., Palenciano, A. F., & Ruz, M. 

Novel verbal instructions recruit abstract neural patterns of time-variable information dimensionality. 

Pena, P., Palenciano, A. F., González-García, C., & Ruz, M. 

Journal of Neuroscience (in press).

It is hard to prepare for task novelty: Cueing the novelty of upcoming tasks does not facilitate task performance. 

Chai, M., Palenciano, A. F., Mill, R., Cole, M. W., & Braem, S. 

Journal of Cognition (2025). 

High-intensity physiological activation disrupts the neural signatures of conflict processing. 

Avancini, C., Ciria, L.F., Alameda, C., Palenciano, A.F., Canales-Johnson, A., Bekinschtein, T.A. & Sanabria, D. Communications Biology (2024).  

Context-dependent neural preparation for information relevance vs. probability. 

Penalver, J. M. G., González-García, C., Palenciano, A. F., Lopez-Garcia, D., & Ruz, M. 

Imaging Neuroscience (2024) 

Concurrent response and action effect representations across the somatomotor cortices during novel task preparation.

Palenciano, A. F., González-García, C., De Houwer, J., Liefooghe, B., & Brass, M. 

Cortex (2024) 

Proactive selective attention across competition contexts. 

Aguado-López, B., Palenciano, A.F., Peñalver, J.M.G., Díaz-Gutiérrez, P., López-García, D., Avancini, C.,      Ciria, L.F.  & Ruz, M. 

Cortex (2024) 

Internal attention modulates the functional state of novel stimulus-response associations in working memory 

Formica, S., Palenciano, A. F., Vermeylen, L., Myers, N. E., Brass, M. & González-García, C. 

Cognition (2024) 

Canonical template tracking: Measuring the activation state of specific neural representations.

Palenciano, A.F., Senoussi, M., Formica, S., & González-García, C.

Frontiers in Neuroimaging (2023) 

The effect of task demands on the neural patterns generated by novel instruction encoding. 

Sobrado, A.*, Palenciano, A. F.*, González-García, C., & Ruz, M. *Shared first authorship

Cortex (2022) 

The representations of Chinese characters: Evidence from sublexical components. 

Liu, X., Wisniewski, D., Vermeylen, L., Palenciano, A. F., Liu, W., & Brysbaert, M. 

Journal of Neuroscience (2022) 

Exploring the link between novel task proceduralization and motor simulation.

Palenciano, A. F., González-García, C., De Houwer, J., Brass, M., & Liefooghe, B. 

Journal of Cognition (2021) 

Representational organization of novel task sets during proactive encoding. 

Palenciano, A. F., González-García, C., Arco, J. E., Pessoa, L., & Ruz, M. 

Journal of Neuroscience (2019) 

Transient and sustained control mechanisms supporting novel instructed behavior.

Palenciano, A. F., González-García, C., Arco, J. E., & Ruz, M. 

Cerebral Cortex (2019) 

Neural mechanisms of cognitive control.

Palenciano, A. F., Díaz-Gutiérrez, P., González-García, C., & Ruz, M. 

Studies in Psychology (2017) 

Encoding, preparation, and implementation of novel complex verbal instructions. 

González-García, C., Arco, J. E., Palenciano, A. F., Ramírez, J., & Ruz, M. 

NeuroImage (2017)