Theoretical models of Learning
Stimulus exposure effects in associative learning.
Contents of associative learning.
Perceptual Learning in human and non-human animals.
Dietary choline supplementation effects in learning, memory and attentional processes.
Exposure processes in associative learning and its implication in intake behavior: Diet choice, importance of environmental cues in overeating, specific sensory satiation, conditioned satiation and effects of non-caloric sweetness in obesity and diabetes.
Publications
González, A, Boakes, R., Hall, G. & de Brugada, I. (2023). Does drinking saccharin weaken an association of sweet with calories? Pre-exposure effects in flavor preference learning., Physiology & Behavior. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.physbeh.2023.114381
González, A., Ojedo, F., Ruiz, I., Gil, M., Macizo, P., & de Brugada, I. (2023). Nutritional labels and food intake regulation: The effect of external cues in the facilitation effect of food picture detection in visual search tasks. Appetite, 189, 106942. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.appet.2023.106942
Sánchez, J., González, A. & de Brugada, I. (2023). Intermixed Rapid Exposure to Similar Stimuli Reduces the Effective Salience of Their Distinctive Features. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Animal Learning and Cognition. https://doi.org/10.1037/xan0000355
Sánchez, J., González, A., Hall, G., & de Brugada, I. (2023). The opportunity to compare similar stimuli can reduce the effectiveness of features they hold in common. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Animal Learning and Cognition, 49(2), 87-95. https://doi.org/10.1037/xan0000349
Sánchez, J., Dwyer, D. M., Honey, R. C., & de Brugada, I. (2022). Perceptual learning after rapidly alternating exposure to taste compounds: Assessment with different indices of generalization. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Animal Learning and Cognition, 48(3), 169–178. https://doi.org/10.1037/xan0000333
González, A., Sánchez, J., & de Brugada, I. (2022). Habituation as an underlying mechanism for Sensory Specific Satiety: An assessment using flavor consumption and preference in rats. Appetite, 169, 105821. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.appet.2021.105821
Gil, M, de Brugada, I & Hall, G. (2021) Motivational Factors Controlling Flavor Preference Learning and Performance: Effects of Preexposure with Nutritive and Nonnutritive Sweeteners Behavioural processes, 191, 104462. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.beproc.2021.104462
de Brugada I, González F, Cándido A. & Hall G. (2021) Contextual control of the retardation of flavour aversion learning by preexposure to the unconditioned stimulus: Acquisition or retrieval deficit?. Behavioural Processes. 188:104394. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.beproc.2021.104394.
Moreno, H & de Brugada, I. (2019) Prenatal dietary choline supplementation modulates long-term memory development in rat offspring, Nutritional Neuroscience, DOI: 10.1080/1028415X.2019.1641294
Recio, S. A., Iliescu, A. F., & de Brugada, I. (2019). The amount of exposure determines generalization in animal perceptual learning using short inter-stimulus intervals. Behavioural processes, 166, 103900. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.beproc.2019.103900
Iliescu, A. F., Hall, J., Wilkinson, L. S., Dwyer, D. M., & Honey, R. C. (2018). The nature of phenotypic variation in Pavlovian conditioning. Journal of experimental psychology. Animal learning and cognition, 44(4), 358–369. doi:10.1037/xan0000177
González, A., Recio, S. A., Sánchez, J., Gil, M., & de Brugada, I. (2018). Effect of exposure to similar flavours in sensory specific satiety: Implications for eating behaviour. Appetite, 127, 289–295. doi: 10.1016/j.appet.2018.05.015.
Moreno, H., Hall, G., Gallo, M., & de Brugada, I. (2018). Dietary Choline Supplementation in Adult Rats Improves Performance on a Test of Recognition Memory. Behavioural Brain Research. http://sl.ugr.es/0csC
Recio, S, Iliescu, A. & de Brugada, I. (2018) The role of stimulus comparison in animal perceptual learning: Effects of a distractor placement. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology. https://doi.org/10.1177/1747021818757101
Llamas-Salguero, F., Martín-Lobo, P., Pradas-Montilla, S. & Gil, M. (2017). Study of Student's Attitude Towards New Technological Contexts and Neuroscience Progress, Ingeniería Solidaría, vol. 13, no. 21, pp. 27-36
Gil, M., Symonds, M., Hall, G., & de Brugada, I. (2017). Flattering of a generalisation gradient following a retention interval: Evidence for differential forgetting of stimulus features. Behavioural Processes. doi: 10.1016/j.beproc.2017.09.016
Moreno, H, Carias, D., & de Brugada, I. (2017). Dietary choline during periadolescence attenuates cognitive damage caused by neonatal maternal separation in male rats. Nutritional Neuroscience, 20(6), 327-335.
Recio, S. A., Iliescu, A. F., Mingorance, S.P., Bergés, G. D., Hall, G., & de Brugada, I. (2016). The Role of Instructions in Perceptual Learning Using Complex Visual Stimuli. Journal of Experimental Psychology. Animal Learning and Cognition
Recio, S., Iliescu, A., Mingorance, S., Bergés, G., Hall, G., & de Brugada, I. (2016). The role of instructions in perceptual learning using complex visual stimuli. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Animal Learning and Cognition, 42, 359–365. doi: 10.1080/1028415X.2015.1126444
Recio, S., Iliescu, A., Honey, R., & de Brugada, I. (2016). Perceptual learning in flavorpreference conditioning: Restricting generalization of acquired preferences between flavors. Learning and Motivation, 56, 31-37. doi: 10.1016/j.lmot.2016.09.001
Recio, S. A., Iliescu, A. F., Bergés, G. D., Gil, M., & de Brugada, I. (2016). The effect of additional exposure to the unique features in a perceptual learning task can be attributed to a location bias. Journal of Experimental Psychology. Animal Learning and Cognition, 42(2), 228–232. http://doi.org/10.1037/xan0000094
Moreno, H., Carias, D., & de Brugada, I. (2015). Dietary choline during periadolescence attenuates cognitive damage caused by neonatal maternal separation in male rats. Nutritional Neuroscience. Advance online publication. http://doi.org/10.1080/1028415X.2015.1126444
Gámiz, F., Recio, S. A., Iliescu, A. F., Gallo, M., & de Brugada, I. (2015). Effects of dietary choline availability on latent inhibition of flavor aversion learning. Nutritional Neuroscience, 18(6), 275–280. http://doi.org/10.1179/1476830514Y.0000000129
Rodriguez, G, Márquez, R., Gil, M., Alonso, G., Hall, G. (2014). The Hall-Rodriguez theory of latent inhibition: further assessment of compound stimulus preexposure effects. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Animal Learning and Cognition, 40, 425-430.
Gil, M., Recio, S. A., de Brugada, I., Symonds, M., & Hall, G. (2014). US-preexposure effects in flavor-preference and flavor-aversion learning with nonnutritive USs. Behavioural Processes, 106, 67–73. http://doi.org/10.1016/j.beproc.2014.04.015
Domínguez, P. R., Gámiz, F., Gil, M., Moreno, H., Zamora, R. M., Gallo, M., & de Brugada, I. (2013). Providing choice increases children’s vegetable intake. Food Quality and Preference, 30(2), 108-113. http://doi.org/10.1016/j.foodqual.2013.05.006
Moreno, H., de Brugada, I., & Hall, G. (2013). Chronic dietary choline supplementation modulates attentional change in adult rats. Behavioural Brain Research, 243, 278–85. http://doi.org/10.1016/j.bbr.2013.01.022
Moreno, H., de Brugada, I., Carias, D., & Gallo, M. (2013). Long-lasting effects of prenatal dietary choline availability on object recognition memory ability in adult rats. Nutritional Neuroscience, 16(6), 269-274, http://dx.doi.org/10.1179/1476830513Y.0000000055
Moreno, H., Gil, M., Carias, D., Gallo, M., & de Brugada, I. (2012). Choline dietary supplementation improves LiCl-induced context aversion retention in adult rats. Physiology & Behavior, 106(4), 451-456, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.physbeh.2012.03.003.
Gil, M., Symonds, M., Hall, G., & de Brugada, I. (2011). Analysis of the US-preexposure effect in flavor acceptance conditioning. Learning and Motivation, 42(4), 273–281. http://doi.org/10.1016/j.lmot.2011.06.00