APS

2026 APS Annual Convention

Mechanisms of Habit Formation and Expression: Cognitive, Neural, and Clinical Perspectives

Saturday, May 30, 2026 · Barcelona, Spain

Oral · Thinking & Remembering: Attention, Memory & Control

Recent advances in habit research highlight novel theoretical perspectives, refined experimental approaches, and emerging neuroscientific insights. This symposium brings together leading researchers to discuss current progress in understanding the mechanisms of habit formation and expression, and to explore how these insights can be translated to real-world contexts, including clinical behaviors.

Chairs & Discussants

  • Massimo KösterChair
    Marburg University
  • Eike BuabangCoChair
    School of Psychology, Trinity College Dublin
  • Massimo KösterDiscussant
    Marburg University

Presentations

  1. Temporal Stability In the Expression of Laboratory-Based HabitsPablo Martínez-López
  2. Developing (and breaking) Attentional HabitsOmar David Perez
  3. A Neural Decoding Approach to Understand Habit FormationEike Buabang
  4. Habits In Addiction: Evidence from Motor Learning and Decision Making Tanja Endrass