Publications

2025

Henriquez-Jara, B., Guevara, A., Munizaga, M., & Perez, O.D. (2025) Habits and the subexploration of better transportation options: A dual-system approach. Travel Behaviour and Society 

2024

Perez, O. D., & Dickinson, A. (2024) Dual-system free-operant avoidance: extension of a theory . Journal of Experimental Psychology: Animal Learning and Cognition. https://doi.org/10.1101/2023.05.24.542134

Perez, O.D. (2024) The Rate-Correlation Theory of Goal-Directed Behavior: An Update. (2024) In: Vandaele, Y. (eds) Habits. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-55889-4_4

2023

Soto, F., Vogel, E. H., Uribe-Bahamonde, Y., & Perez, O. D. (2023). Why is the Rescorla-Wagner model so influential? Neurobiology of Learning and Memory. https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/dpsm4

2022

Perez, O. D. (2022). Action sequences, habits and attention in copying strategies. Behavioral and Brain Sciences. https://doi.org/10.17605/OSF.IO/6GMCV

Zbozinek, T. D., Perez, O. D., Wise, T., Fanselow, M., & Mobbs, D. (2022). Ambiguity Drives Higher-Order Pavlovian Learning.  PLOS Computational Biology. https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/t2x8r

Perez, O. D., Vogel, E.H, Narasiwodeyar, S., & Soto, F.A. (2022). Sub-sampling of cues in associative learning.  Learning & Memory. https://doi.org/10.1101/713420

Pool, E. R.*, Gera, R.*, Fransen, A.*, Perez, O. D.*, Cremer, A.*, Aleksic, M.*, Tanwisuth, S.*, Quail, S.*, Ceceli, A. O., Manfredi, D. A., Nave, G, Tricomi, E., Balleine, B., Schonberg, T., Schwabe, L., O'Doherty, J. P. (2022). Determining the effects of training duration on the behavioral expression of habitual control in humans: a multi-laboratory investigation. Learning & Memory. https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/z756h

(* Equal contribution)

2021

Zbozinek, T. D., Wise, T., Qi, S., Perez, O. D., Fanselow, M., & Mobbs, D. (2021). Occasion Setting, Anxiety, and Their Computation in Human Fear Conditioning. Behaviour Research & Therapy. https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/7xse6

Perez, O. D. (2021) Instrumental behavior in humans is sensitive to the correlation between response rate and reward rate. Psychonomic Bulletin and Review, 28, 649–656. https://doi.org/10.3758/s13423-020-01830-8

2020

Perez, O. D. & Dickinson, A. (2020). A theory of actions and habits: The interaction of rate correlation and contiguity systems in free-operant behavior. Psychological Review, 127 (6), 945–971. https://doi.org/10.1037/rev0000201

Perez, O. D. & Soto, F.A. (2020). Evidence for a dissociation between causal beliefs and instrumental actions. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 73 (4), 495-503. https://doi:10.31234/osf.io/yx8m4

2019

Dickinson, A. & Perez, O. D. (2019). Actions and Habits: Psychological issues in Dual-System Theory. In R.W. Morris & A. Bornstein (Eds.) Goal-Directed Decision Making: Computations and Neural Circuits. Elsevier. doi:10.1016/B978-0-12-812098-9.00001-2

Perez, O. D., Aitken, M. R., Zhukovsky, P., Soto, F. A., Urcelay, G. P., & Dickinson, A. (2019). Human instrumental performance in ratio and interval contingencies: A challenge for associative theory. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 72(2), 311-321. https://doi.org/10.1080/17470218.2016.1265996

2018

Pauli, W. M., Cockburn, J., Pool, E. R., Perez, O. D., & O’Doherty, J. P. (2018). Computational approaches to habits in a model-free world. Current Opinion in Behavioral Sciences, 20, 104-109. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cobeha.2017.12.001

Perez, O. D., San Martin, R., & Soto, F. A. (2018). Exploring the Effect of Stimulus Similarity on the Summation Effect in Causal Learning. Experimental Psychology, 65, 183-200. doi:10.1027/1618-3169/a000406

Perez, O. D., Aitken, M. R. F., Milton, A. L., & Dickinson, A. (2018). A re-examination of responding on ratio and regulated-probability interval schedules. Learning and Motivation, 64, 1-8.

https://doi.org/10.1016/j.lmot.2018.07.003

Preprints

Tarantola, T., Folke, T., Boldt, A., Perez, O.D., & De Martino, B. (2021) Confirmation bias optimizes reward learning. bioRxiv. https://doi.org/10.1101/2021.02.27.433214

In preparation

Perez, O. D., Oh, S., Dickinson, A., & Merlo, E. The effect of extinction and causal degradation on the goal-directed status of an action.