CSIC, Calle Serrano 113, Madrid
15 June 2026
PROGRAM
9.15: 9.30 - Welcome
Session 1: Context, Contingency, and Chains
Chair: Marta Miquel
9.30 - 10.00 Isabel de Brugada (Universidad de Granada)
Habits in Pavlovian Learning: Context specificity in flavour preference conditioning after long versus short training
10.00 - 10.30 Pilar Flores (Universidad de Almería)
Contingency-based flexibility through Probabilistic Reversal Learning Task: computational modeling across different clinical diagnoses
10.30 - 11.00 Fernando Molines (UNED)
Induction, habits, and behavioral chains
Plenary Session
Chair: David Luque
11.00 - 11.45 Claire Gillan (Trinity College Dublin, Ireland)
Dissecting Compulsivity Through Computational Modeling
11.45 - 12.30 Coffee Break & Poster Session
Session 2: Neural Circuits in Habit Formation and Expression
Chair: Ignacio Obeso
12.30 - 13.00 Francesco Ulloa (Cajal Neuroscience Centre, CSIC)
Cellular mechanisms for circuit-specific control of effort exertion
13.00 - 13.30 Marta Miquel (Universitat Jaume I)
Is the cerebellum a part of habit circuits?
13.30 - 14.00 Ignacio Obeso (Cajal Neuroscience Centre, CSIC)
Causal implications of prefrontal regions in the expression of habits
14.00 - 15.15 Lunch Break
Session 3: From Vulnerability to Clinical Expression of Habits
Chair: Margarita Moreno
15.15 - 15.45 David Luque (Universidad de Málaga / IBIMA)
From rats to patients, via healthy populations: Current challenges for translational habit research
15.45 - 16.15 Julian Guarque Chabrera & Margarita Moreno (Universidad de Almería)
Gamble or not Gamble: a preclinical view of vulnerability in decision making
16.15 - 17.00 Coffee Break & Poster Session
17.00 - 17.30 Miquel A. Fullana (IDIBAPS / Hospital Clínic)
Habits and obsessive-compulsive disorder
17.30 - 18.00 Paula Banca (Universidad del País Vasco)
Action sequence learning, habits and automaticity in OCD
18.00 Closing remarks