José A. Alcalá

Education

PhD in Psychology.

Keywords

Predictive learning; Social cognition; Overshadowing; Conditioning.

Publications

Alcalá, J. A., Martínez-Tomás, C., Urcelay, G. P., & Hinojosa, J. A. (2024). The impact of emotional valence on generalization gradients. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, 1-10.

Alcalá, J. A., Prados, J., & Urcelay, G. P. (2023). Category relevance attenuates overshadowing in human predictive learning. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Animal Learning and Cognition, 49(3), 162.

Jordan, L., Alcalá, J. A., Urcelay, G. P., & Prados, J. (2023). Conditioned place avoidance in the planaria Schmidtea mediterranea: A pre-clinical invertebrate model of anxiety-related disorders. Behavioural Processes, 210, 104894.

Alcalá, J. A., Miller, R. R., Kirkden, R. D., & Urcelay, G. P. (2023). Contiguity and overshadowing interactions in the rapid-streaming procedure. Learning & Behavior, 1-20.

Alcalá, J. A., Gámez, M., Ogallar, P. M., Callejas-Aguilera, J. E., & Rosas, J. M. (2022). Experiencing Extinction Facilitates Subsequent Acquisition of Positive, but not Negative Patterning in Human Predictive Learning. 

Alcalá, J. A., Ogallar, P. M., Prados, J., & Urcelay, G. P. (2023). Further evidence for the role of temporal contiguity as a determinant of overshadowing. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 17470218231197170.

Telga, M., Alcalá, J. A., & Lupiáñez, J. (2023). Social and non-social categorisation in investment decisions and learning. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 17470218231153137.

Telga, M., Alcalá, J. A., Heyes, C., & Urcelay, G. P. (2023). Social overshadowing: Revisiting cue-competition in social interactions. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, 1-11.

Alcalá, J. A., Kirkden, R. D., Bray, J., Prados, J., & Urcelay, G. P. (2023). Temporal contiguity determines overshadowing and potentiation of human Action-Outcome performance. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, 30(1), 350-361.

Thrailkill, E. A., & Alcalá, J. A. (2022). Relapse after incentivized choice treatment in humans: A laboratory model for studying behavior change. Experimental and Clinical Psychopharmacology, 30(2), 220.

Herrera, E., Alcalá, J. A., Tazumi, T., Buckley, M. G., Prados, J., & Urcelay, G. P. (2022). Temporal and spatial contiguity are necessary for competition between events. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 48(3), 321.

González, G., Alcalá, J. A., Ogállar, P. M., Rosas, J. M., & Callejas-Aguilera, J. E. (2021). Reversing the relationship between a nontarget cue and the outcome facilitates subsequent human predictive learning. Behavioural Processes, 193, 104529.

Sotelo, M. I., Alcalá, J. A., Bingman, V. P., & Muzio, R. N. (2020). On the transfer of spatial learning between geometrically different shaped environments in the terrestrial toad, Rhinella arenarum. Animal Cognition, 23(1), 55-70.