Publications
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.
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.
Contreras-Huerta, L. S., Yu, H., Prosser, A. M. B., Lockwood, P. L., Crockett, M. J., & Bird, G. (2024). Neural representations of vicarious rewards are linked to interoception and prosocial behaviour. NeuroImage, 269, 119881. 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.
Tejos-Bravo, M., Cid, D., Alfaro, V., Espinoza, F., Rojas-Thomas, F., Fiedler, J., & Calvo, M. (2023, January). EFFECT OF PSYCHOSOCIAL STRESS IN PATIENTS WITH ATOPIC DERMATITIS: RELEVANCE FOR SOMATOSENSORY PROFILE AND SMALL NERVE FIBERS IN CHRONIC LESIONS. In ACTA DERMATO-VENEREOLOGICA (Vol. 103, pp. 43-43).
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.
Tejos-Bravo, M., Cid-Hidalgo, D., Alfaro, V., Espinoza, F., Rojas-Thomas, F., Fiedler, J. L., & Calvo, M. (2022, January). FUNCTIONAL SOMATOSENSORY ADAPTATION TO ACUTE STRESS IS DIMINISHED IN ATOPIC DERMATITIS. In ACTA DERMATO-VENEREOLOGICA (Vol. 102, pp. 14-14).
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.
Tejos-Bravo, M., Rojas-Thomas, F., Espinoza, F., Fiedler, J., Fiedler, J., & Calvo, M. (2021, September). Role of Stress Exposure In Itch And Pain: Protocol For a Study in Atopic Dermatitis. In JOURNAL OF THE PERIPHERAL NERVOUS SYSTEM (Vol. 26, No. 3, pp. 379-380). 111 RIVER ST, HOBOKEN 07030-5774, NJ USA: WILEY.
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.
Contreras-Huerta, L. S., Lockwood, P. L., Bird, G., Apps, M. A. , & Crockett, M. J. (2020). Prosocial behavior is associated with transdiagnostic markers of affective sensitivity in multiple domains. Emotion. View here.
2020 to Present
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.
Cutler, J.*, Contreras-Huerta, L. S.*, Todorova, B., Nitschke, J. P., Michalaki, K., Koppel, L., … Lockwood, P. Psychological interventions increase motivation to exert effort to mitigate climate change. PsyArXiv.
Contreras-Huerta, L. S., Yu, H., Prosser, A. M., Lockwood, P., Crockett, M., & Apps, M. A. Hypocritical blame is associated with reduced prosocial motivation. PsyArXiv. View here.
