2025 to Present

Baquedano, C., Olguí, A., Contreras-Huerta, L. S., Rosas, F. E., & Estarellas, M. (2026). Your Brain on Nature: A Scoping Review of the Neuroscience of Nature Exposure. Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews, 106565. View here

Zoh, Y., Yu, H., Contreras-Huerta, L. S., Prosser, A. M. B., Apps, M. A. J., Sinnott-Armstrong, W., Chang, S. W. C., & Crockett, M. J. (2025). Instrumental harm and impartial beneficence distinctively frame cognitive representations of moral decision problems. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 154(11), 3217–3232. View here

Morales, J.-P., Van Dam, N. T., Huepe-Artigas, D., Rivera-Rei, Á., San-Martín, C., Rojas-Thomas, F., Valdés, J., Ibáñez, A., & Huepe, D. (2025). Cocaine polydrug use and its impact on intentional harm recognition: A high-density EEG study. BMC Psychology, 13, Article 917. View here

Cutler, J., Contreras-Huerta, L. S., Todorova, B., Nitschke, J., Michalaki, K., Koppel, L., … & Lockwood, P. L. (2025). Psychological interventions that decrease psychological distance or challenge system justification increase motivation to exert effort to mitigate climate change. Communications Psychology, 3(1), 1-13. here

Contreras-Huerta, L. S., Yu, H., Prosser, A. M., Lockwood, P. L., Crockett, M. J., & Apps, M. A. (2025). Hypocritical blame is associated with reduced prosocial motivation. Scientific reports, 15(1), 32811. here

Artigas, C., Morales-Torres, R., Rojas-Thomas, F., Villena-González, M., Rubio, I., Ramírez-Benavides, D., … & Rodríguez, E. (2025). When alertness fades: Drowsiness-induced visual dominance and oscillatory recalibration in audiovisual integration. International Journal of Psychophysiology, 212, 112562. View here.

Tejos‐Bravo, M., Cid, D., Espinoza, F., Rojas‐Thomas, F., Torres, G., Cossio, M. L., … & Calvo, M. (2025). Altered Sensory and Stress Responses in Atopic Dermatitis: Effects of Acute Stress on Lesional and Non‐Lesional Skin. Experimental Dermatology, 34(3), e70083. View here.

2020 to 2024

Aldunate, N., López, V., Rojas-Thomas, F., Villena-González, M., Palacios, I., Artigas, C., Rodríguez, E., & Bosman, C. A. (2024). Emotional text messages affect the early processing of emoticons depending on their emotional congruence: evidence from the N170 and EPN event-related potentials. Cognitive Processing, 25(4), 621–634.View here.

Campos-Arteaga, G., Flores-Torres, J., Rojas-Thomas, F., Morales-Torres, R., Poyser, D., Sitaram, R., Rodríguez, E., & Ruiz, S. (2024). EEG subject-dependent neurofeedback training selectively impairs declarative memory consolidation process. International Journal of Psychophysiology, 203, 112406. View here.

Contreras-Huerta, L. S., Pisauro, M. A., Küchenhoff, S., Gekiere, A., Le Heron, C., Lockwood, P. L., & Apps, M. A. (2024). A reward self-bias leads to more optimal foraging for ourselves than others. Scientific Reports, 14(1), 26845. View here.

Doell, K., Todorova, B., Vlasceanu, M., Bak-Coleman, …, Contreras-Huerta, L.S., …, J., Van Bavel, J. J., & Pronizius, E. (2024). The International Climate Psychology Collaboration: Climate change-related data collected from 63 countries. Scientific Data, 11(1), 1066. View here.

Vlasceanu, M., Doell, K., Bak-Coleman, J., …, Contreras-Huerta L.S., … & Van Bavel, J. J. (2024). Addressing Climate Change with Behavioral Science: A Global Intervention Tournament in 63 Countries. Science Advances, 10(6), eadj5778. View here.

Contreras-Huerta, L. S. (2023). A cost-benefit framework for prosocial motivation–advantages and challenges. Frontiers in Psychiatry, 14, 1170150. View here.

Contreras-Huerta, L. S., Coll, M.P., Bird, G., Yu, H., Prosser, A., Lockwood, P.L., Murphy, J., Crockett, M.J. and Apps, M.A. (2023). Neural representations of vicarious rewards are linked to interoception and prosocial behaviour. NeuroImage, 269, 119881. View here.

Rojas-Thomas, F., Artigas, C., Wainstein, G., Morales, J. P., Arriagada, M., Soto, D., Dagnino-Subiabre, A., Silva, J., & López, V. (2023). Impact of acute psychosocial stress on attentional control in humans: a study of evoked potentials and pupillary response. Neurobiology of Stress, 25, 100551. View here.

Villena-González, M., Rojas-Thomas, F., Morales-Torres, R., & López, V. (2023). Autonomous sensory meridian response is associated with a larger heartbeat-evoked potential amplitude without differences in interoceptive awareness. Psychophysiology, 60(6), e14277. View here.

Contreras-Huerta, L. S., Lockwood, P. L., Bird, G., Apps, M. A. J., & Crockett, M. J. (2022). Prosocial behavior is associated with transdiagnostic markers of affective sensitivity in multiple domains. Emotion, 22(5), 820–835. View here.

Yu, H., Contreras-Huerta, L. S., Prosser, A., Apps, M. A., Hofmann, W., Sinnott-Armstrong, W., and Crockett, M. J. (2022). Neural and cognitive signatures of guilt predict hypocritical blame. Psychological Science, 33(11), 1909-1927. View here.

Contreras-Huerta, L. S., Pisauro, M. A., & Apps, M. A. (2020). Effort shapes social cognition and behaviour: A neuro-cognitive framework. Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews, 118, 426-439. View here.

2010 to 2019

Aldunate, N., Villena-González, M., Rojas-Thomas, F., López, V., & Bosman, C. A. (2018). Mood detection in ambiguous messages: The interaction between text and emoticons. Frontiers in Psychology, 9, 423. View here.

Cao, Y., Contreras-Huerta, L. S., McFadyen, J., & Cunnington, R. (2015). Racial bias in neural response to others’ pain is reduced with other-race contact. Cortex, 70, 68-78. View here.

Contreras-Huerta, L. S., Hielscher, E., Sherwell, C. S., Rens, N., & Cunnington, R. (2014). Intergroup relationships do not reduce racial bias in empathic neural responses to pain. Neuropsychologia, 64, 263-270. View here.

Fuentes, M. A., Lavín, C., Contreras-Huerta, L. S., Miguel, H., & Rosales Jubal, E. (2014). Stochastic model predicts evolving preferences in the Iowa gambling task. Frontiers in Computational Neuroscience, 8, 167. View here.

Contreras-Huerta, L. S., Baker, K. S., Reynolds, K. J., Batalha, L., & Cunnington, R. (2013). Racial bias in neural empathic responses to pain. PloS one, 8(12), e84001. View here.

Pérez, M. Á., Pérez-Valenzuela, C., Rojas-Thomas, F., Ahumada, J., Fuenzalida, M., & Dagnino-Subiabre, A. (2013). Repeated restraint stress impairs auditory attention and GABAergic synaptic efficacy in the rat auditory cortex. Neuroscience, 246, 94-107. View here..

Lavin, C., San Martín, R., Bravo, D., Contreras, L., & Isla, P. (2011). [Brain potentials related to feedback on the study of learning and economic decision making]. Revista Latinoamericana de Psicología, 43(3), 455-471. [In Spanish]. View here.

Muñoz, P. C., Aspé, M. A., Contreras, L. S., & Palacios, A. G. (2010). Correlations of recognition memory performance with expression and methylation of brain-derived neurotrophic factor in rats. Biological Research, 43(2), 251-258. View here.

Preprints

Ruggeri, K., Valenzuela-Catarí, G., Polemiti, E., Abderahaman, G., Adawi, T. R., Agopian, T., Contreras-Huerta L.S., …, Macchiavello, F., …, Rojas-Thomas F., … & Mullabaeva, N. (2025). Global well-being in 2025: A multidimensional analysis of mental, financial, and social health in 92 countries. PsyArXiv. View here

Rojas-Thomas, F., Macchiavello, F., Soto, V., Rivera-Rei, Á., O’Byrne, D., Bórquez, J., Ruiz-Moya, C., Huepe, D., & Contreras-Huerta, L. S. (Sent). A validation study of mobile EEG for empathy-for-pain research. View here

Contreras-Huerta, L. S., Yu, H., Prosser, A. M. B., Lockwood, P. L.,Rojas-Thomas, F., Crockett, M. J., & Apps, M. A. J. (2025). Neural signatures of harm aversion predict later willingness to exert effort for others’ rewards [Preprint]. bioRxiv. View here