2025
Muñoz, S., Masimenko, V., Bansal, P., Henriquez-Jara, B., & Perez, O. D. (2025). In-lab versus web-based eye-tracking in decision-making: A systematic comparison on multiple display-size conditions mimicking common electronic devices. Behavior Research Methods.
Perez, O. D., & Urcelay, G. P. (2025). Delayed rewards weaken human goal-directed actions. npj Science of Learning.
Barnes-Horowitz, N., Perez, O. D., Chalkia, A., Craske, M. G., Bois, J., & Zbozinek, T. (2025). Low occasion setter salience results in learning conditional stimulus partial reinforcement instead of occasion setting. Journal of the Experimental Analysis of Behavior.
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. 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.org/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. https://doi.org/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. https://doi.org/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
Perez, O. D.*, Oh, S.*, Arenas, J., Dickinson, A., & Merlo, E. (2025). Human goal-directed actions survive manipulations of the action-outcome contingency (under revision, BMC Psychology). (* Equal contribution)
Muñoz, P., SanClemente, M., Arenas, J., & Perez, O. D. Chile offside: The urgency of a Responsible Gambling Policy. SSRN. http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.5563918