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April 04, 2013

Printed!

Janczyk, M., & Pfister, R. (2013). Inferenzstatistik verstehen. Von A wie Signifikanztest bis Z wie Konfidenzintervall. [Understanding inferential statistics. From A as in significance test to Z as in confidence interval]. Heidelberg: Springer.

Click Opens external link in new windowhere for the book's homepage at Springer.

March 04, 2013

Vincent Julian is born. Congratulations to Carola and Mondrian Häring.

February 27, 2013

A paper by Mike Wendt, Andrea Kiesel, Hanna Mathew, Aquiles Luna-Rodriguez and Thomas Jacobsen is printed: Wendt, M.*, Kiesel, A.*, Mathew, H., Luna-Rodriguez, A., & Jocobsen, T. (2013). Irrelevant stimulus processing when switching between tasks. Zeitschrift für Psychologie, 221, 41-50 (*shared first authorship) The paper contains data of Hanna's bachelor thesis - Congratulations to her!

February 04, 2013

Two brand-new papers have just gone in print: Pfister, R., & Kunde, W. (2013). Dissecting the response in response-effect compatibility. Experimental Brain Research, 224(4), 647-655. DOI: 0.1007/s00221-012-3343-x. Initiates file downloadpdf.

Melcher, T., Winter, D., Hommel, B., Pfister, R., Dechent, P., & Gruber, O. (2013) The neural substrate of the ideomotor principle revisited: Evidence for asymmetries in action-effect learning. Neuroscience, 231, 13-27. DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroscience.2012.11.035. Initiates file downloadpdf.

January 23, 2013

The German Research Council (DFG) has awarded Dr. Oliver Herbort a grant for three years. Congratulations.

October 29, 2012

The German Research Council (DFG) has awarded Dr. Markus Janczyk a grant for two years. Congratulations.

October 24, 2012

Wir trauern um Prof. Dr. Hans-Peter Krüger, der am 24.10.2012 viel zu früh verstorben ist. Wir werden ihm ein ehrendes Andenken bewahren. Die Kolleginnen und Kollegen, die Mitarbeiterinnen und Mitarbeiter des Lehrstuhls III für Psychologie.

October 17, 2012

The page numbers for an article of Carola and Andrea are fixed now: Nolden, S., Haering, C., & Kiesel, A. (2012). Assessing Intentional Binding with the Method of Constant Stimuli. Consciousness and Cognition, 21, 1176-1185. Initiates file downloadpdf.

October 15, 2012

A paper by Heiko Reuss, Andrea Kiesel, Wilfried Kunde and Peter Wühr is printed: Reuss, H., Kiesel, A., Kunde, W., & Wühr, P. (2012). A cue from the unconscious - masked symbols prompt spatial anticipation. Frontiers in Psychology,  3:397.doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2012.00397Initiates file download pdf.

October 10, 2012

A paper by Waldemar Kirsch and E. Hennighausen is now printed: Kirsch, W. & Hennighausen, E. (2012). Electrophysiological indicators of visuomotor planning: delay-dependent changes. Perceptual and Motor Skills, 115(1), 69-89. Initiates file downloadlink

October 8, 2012

A paper by Andrea Kiesel and Carola Häring is now printed: Haering, C., & Kiesel, A. (2012). Mine is earlier than yours: Causal beliefs influence the perceived time of action effects. Frontiers in Cognition, 3. doi:10.3389/fpsyg.201200393 Initiates file downloadpdf.

August 2, 2012

A Journal of Experimental Psychology: General paper by Markus, Roland, Mike Crognale (Reno, USA) and Wilfried is printed: Janczyk, M., Pfister, R., Crognale, M., & Kunde, W. (2012). Effective rotations: Action-effects determine the interplay of mental and manual rotations. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 141, 489-501. pdf.

A brief history paper by Roland, Katharina Schwarz and Markus has been printed in Cortex: Pfister, R. Schwarz, K.A., & Janczyk, M. (2012). Ubi irritatio, ibi affluxus: A 19th century perspective on haemodynamic brain activity. Cortex, 48, 1061-1063.

July 5, 2012

The page numbers of this JEP:HPP-paper have been fixed. Kunde, W., Pfister, R. & Janczyk, M. (2012). The locus of tool-transformation costs. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance. 38. 703-714. pdf.

June 13, 2012

A paper by Roland Pfister, Alexander Heinemann, Andrea Kiesel, Roland Thomaschke und Markus Janczyk is now printed: Pfister, R., Heinemann, A., Kiesel, A., Thomaschke, R., Janczyk, M. (2012). Do endogenous and exogenous action control compete for perception? Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 38, 279-284. pdf.

May 11, 2012

A paper by Markus Janczyk and Wilfried Kunde is now printed: Janczyk, M., Kunde, W. (2012). Visual processing for action resists similarity of relevant and irrelevant object features. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review 19, 412-417. DOI 10.3758/s13423-012-0238-6 pdf.

May 7, 2012

A paper by Waldemar Kirsch, Oliver Herbort, Martin Butz and Wilfried Kunde is now available: Kirsch, W., Herbort, O., Butz, M.V., & Kunde, W. (2012). Influence of Motor Planning on Distance Perception within the Peripersonal space. PLoS ONE 7(4): e34880. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0034880 pdf.

April 25, 2012

A paper by Rico Fischer, Franziska Plessow and Andrea Kiesel is now printed: Fischer, R., Plessow, F., & Kiesel, A. (2012). The Effects of Alerting Signals in Action Control: Activation of S-R Association or Inhibition of Executive Control Processes? Psychological Research, 76, 317-328. pdf.

April 24, 2012

A paper by Carola Häring and Andrea Kiesel is now printed: Time in action contexts: learning when an action effect occurs. Psychological Research, 76(3), 336-344. doi:10.1007/s00426-011-0341-8 pdf.

April 18, 2012

Andrea Kiesel wurde zur außerplanmässigen Professorin ernannt. Herzlichen Glückwunsch!

March 14, 2012

The department is going to host a brand new workshop for PhD students in Experimental Psychology: 

 

March 13/14, 2012

The researchers of the DFG-funded research network "Neuro-cognitive mechanisms of conscious and unconscious visual perception" met at a workshop in Würzburg. More info: http://www.uni-ulm.de/unbewusst/index-Dateien/workshops.htm

March 12, 2012

The page numbers of a review by Wilfried, Heiko and Andrea are now fixed: Kunde,W., Reuss, H., & Kiesel, A. (2012). Consciousness and Cognitive Control. Advances in Cognitive Psychology, 8, 9-18. pdf.

A paper by Roland Pfister, Carsten Pohl, Andrea Kiesel and Wilfried Kunde is now available: Pfister, R., Pohl, C., Kiesel, A., & Kunde, W. (2012). Your unconscious knows your name. PLoS ONE, 7(3), e32402. pdf.

February 29, 2012

A paper by Franziska Plessow, Andrea Kiesel and Clemens Kirschbaum is now printed: Plessow, F., Kiesel, A., & Kirschbaum, C. (2012). The Stressed Prefrontal Cortex and Goal-Directed Behaviour: Acute Psychosocial Stress Impairs the Flexible Implementation of Task Goals. Experimental Brain Research, 216, 397-408. pdf.

February 10, 2012

A paper by Oliver Herbort, Arno Koning, Janet van Uem and Ruud Meulenbroek is now available: Herbort, O., Koning, A., van Uem, J., & Meulenbroek, R. (2012). The End-State Comfort Effect Facilitates Joint Action. Acta Psychologica 139 (3), 404-416. Link.

January 12, 2012

A paper by Tilo Strobach, Roman Liepelt, Torsten Schubert and Andrea Kiesel is now available: Strobach, T., Liepelt, R., Schubert, T., & Kiesel, A. (2012).  Task switching: Effects of practice on switch and mixing costs. Psychological Research, 76, 74-83. pdf.

January 6, 2012

A paper by Markus Janczyk, Roland Pfister and Wilfried Kunde is now available: Janczyk, M., Pfister, R., & Kunde, W. (2012). On the persistence of tool-based compatibility effects. Journal of Psychology, 220, 16-22. pdf

A paper by Oliver Herbort is now available: Herbort, O. (2012) Where to grasp a tool? Task-dependent adjustments of tool transformations by tool users. Journal of Psychology, 220 (1): 37-43.Link

January 5, 2012

A paper by Heiko Reuss, Carsten Pohl, Andrea Kiesel and Wilfried Kunde is now available: Reuss, H., Pohl, C., Kiesel A., & Kunde, W. (2011). Follow the sign! Top-down contingent attentional capture of masked arrow cues. Advances in Cognitive Psychology, 7, 82-91. pdf.

7 December 2011

A paper by Roland Thomaschke, Annika Wagener, Andrea Kiesel and Joachim Hoffmann is now available: The specificity of temporal expectancy: Evidence from a variable foreperiod paradigm. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 64, 2289-2300. pdf.

2 November 2011

A recent paper by Roland Thomaschke, Andrea Kiesel and Joachim Hoffmann is now printed: Thomaschke, R., Kiesel, A., & Hoffmann, J. (2011). Response specific temporal expectancy: Evidence from a variable foreperiod paradigm. Attention, Perception & Psychophysics, 7, 2309-2322. pdf.

31 Oktober 2011

A paper by Markus Janczyk in collaboration with Carolin Wienrich (TU Berlin) is now available. The paper reports a failure to replicate an attentional capture phenomenon: Wienrich, C. & Janczyk, M. (2011). Absence of attentional capture in parallel search is possible - A failure to replicate attentional capture in a non-singleton-target search task. Attention, Perception & Psychophysics, 73, 2044-2052. pdf.

29. September 2011

The DFG has awarded Wilfried Kunde and Andrea Kiesel a grant for 3 years. The project studies the impact of unconscious stimuli on cognitive control operations.

26. September 2011

A paper by Mike Wendt and Andrea Kiesel is now available: Wendt M., & Kiesel A. (2011). Conflict adaptation in time: Foreperiods as contextual cues for attentional adjustment. Psychonomic Bulletin and Review, 18, 910-916.

26. August 2011

A paper by Iris Güldenpenning, Dirk Koester, Wilfried Kunde, Matthias Weigelt and Thomas Schack is now available: Motor expertise modulates the unconscious processing of human body postures (2011). Experimental Brain Research, 213, 383-391.

A paper by Oliver Herbort and Martin Butz is printed: Herbort, O. & Butz, M. V. (2011). Habitual and Goal-directed Factors in (Everyday) Object Handling. Experimental Brain Research, 213(4), 371-382. doi: 10.1007/ s00221-011-2787-8.

18 August 2011

A paper by Ulrich Ansorge, Isabella Fuchs, Shad Kalid & Wilfried Kunde is now available: Ansorge, U., Fuchs, I., Khalid, S., & Kunde, W. (2011). No conflict control in the absence of awareness. Psychological Research. 351-365. pdf.

Markus Janczyk has been awarded the Early Career Publication Award 2010 of the European Society of Cognitive Psychology (ESCoP) for his recent Neuropsychologia paper. For more information: http://www.escop.eu/images/newsletter/ESCoP_2011newsletter.pdf   Congratulations!

16 August 2011

A recent paper by Marco Steinhauser and Andrea Kiesel is now available: Steinhauser, M., & Kiesel, A. (2011). Performance monitoring and the causal atttribution of errors. Cognitive, Affective, and Behavioral Neuroscience, 11, 309-320. pdf.

11 July 2011

A recent paper by Wilfried Kunde, Ljubica Lozo, and Roland Neumann is now available: Kunde, W., Lozo,L., & Neumann, R. (2011). Effect-based control of facial expressions. Evidence from action-effect compatibility. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, 18, 820-826. pdf.

08 July 2011

Roland's paper on internet behaviour is printed: Pfister, R. (2011). Wardrobe malfunctions and the measurement of internet behaviour. Psychology, 2(3), 265-267. DOI: 10.4236/psych. 2011.23042. pdf.

27 June 2011

A recent paper by Wilfried Kunde, Stefanie Skirde and Matthias Weigelt is now available: Kunde, W., Skirde, S. & Weigelt, M. (2011). Trust my face: Cognitive factors of head fakes in Sports. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Applied. 17. 110-127. pdf.

22 June 2011

A recent paper by Franziska Plessow, Andrea Kiesel, Antje Petzold and Clemens Kirschbaum is now printed: Plessow, F., Kiesel, A., Petzold, A., & Kirschbaum, C. (2011). Chronic Sleep Curtailment Impairs the Flexible Implementation of Task Goals in New Parents. Journal of Sleep Research, 20, 279-287. pdf.

30 April 2011

Markus Janczyk has won the 3rd Prize (together with Karin Bausenhart, Tübingen) in the 2011 Dissertation contest of the section for Experimental Psychology of the German Society of Psychology. Congratulations!

28 March 2011

A recent paper by Roland Thomaschke, Annika Wagener, Andrea Kiesel, and Joachim Hoffmann is now printed:

Thomaschke, R., Wagener A., Kiesel, A., & Hoffmann, J. (2011). The scope and precision of specific temporal expectancy: Evidence from a variable foreperiod paradigm. Attention, Perception and Psychophysics, 73, 953-964. pdf.

22 March 2011

The DFG has awarded Wladimir Kirsch a grant for 3 years. The project studies the role of movement planning on space perception in grasping space.

19 March 2011

Milla is born! Congratulations to Julia and Oliver.

24 February 2011

A recent paper by Tom Verguts, Wim Notebaert, Peter Wühr and Wilfried is now printed:

Verguts, T., Notebaert, W., Kunde, W., & Wühr, P. (2011). Post-conflict slowing: Cognitive adaptation after conflict processing. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, 18, 76-82. pdf.

Andrea's and Wilfried's work on masked priming in cooperation with Rico Fischer and Torsten Schubert is published:

Fischer, R., Kiesel, A., Kunde, W., & Schubert, T. (2011). Selective impairment of masked priming in dual-task performance. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 64, 572-595.  pdf.

16 February 2011

Markus paper in cooperation with Joachim Grabowski on the focus of attention is printed: Janczyk, M. & Grabowski, J. (2011). The focus of attention in working memory: Evidence from a word updating task. Memory, 19, 211-225.

26 January 2011

The fMRI study on chess expertise of Andrea and Carsten in cooperation with Merim Bilalic is printed: Bilalic, M., Kiesel, A., Pohl, C., Erb, M., & Grodd, W. (2011). It Takes Two - Skilled Recognition of Objects Engages Lateral Areas in Both Hemispheres. PLoS ONE, 6, 1-11.

24 January 2011

Roland's, Markus and Wilfried's review on ideomotor theory is published:

Pfister, R., Janczyk, M., & Kunde, W. (2010). Los, beweg dich! - Aber wie? Ideen zur Steuerung menschlicher Handlungen. In-Mind Magazine, 4. Available online.

The COBOSLAB is organizing the workshop ABiALS 2011 (Anticipatory Behavior in Adaptive Learning Systems) with the focus on "Spatial Representations and Dynamic Interactions" at the ZIF in Bielefeld on the 21st and 22nd of February. The Program, including presentation and poster abstracts, is now online."

Change of Date: Research Colloquium by Prof. Dr. Rothermund (Jena) postponed to February 7th, 2011

07 January 2011

Starting with 2011 Andrea has taken over the responsibility as Associate Editor for Experimental Psychology.

Wilfried stepped in for Herbert Heuer as Associate Editor for Psychological Research.

03 January 2011

Roland, Andrea and Joachims's paper on action-effect learning is printed: Pfister, R., Kiesel, A., & Hoffmann, J. (2011). Learning at any rate: Action-effect learning for stimulus-based actions. Psychological Research. Psychological Research, 75(1), 61-65. DOI: 10.1007/s00426-010-0288-1.

16. December 2010

The DFG has awarded Wilfried Kunde a grant (3 years) in collaboration with PD Dr. Thomas Kleinsorge (IfADo, Dortmund).

Wilfried's and Andrea's cooperation paper with Rico and Franziska on the Simon effect is printed: Fischer, R., Plessow, F., Kunde, W.  Kiesel, A. (2010). Trial-to-trial modulations of the Simon effect in conditions of attentional limitations: Evidence from dual-tasks. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 36, 1576-1594.

06. December 2010

Research Colloquium by Dipl.-Psych. Henning Kienast (TU Chemnitz): "Vorwärts-Rückwärts, Links-Rechts- wo liegen die Schwierigkeiten beim Einparken"

03. November 2010

Oliver Herbort has been accepted as candidate for habilitation.

29. October 2010

Martin, Roland, Matthias and Oliver's new paper on cross-modal perception is printed:

Butz, M.V., Thomaschke, R., Linhardt, M.J., & Herbort, O. (2010). Remapping motion across modalities: Tactile rotations influence visual motion judgments. Experimental Brain Research 207(1), 1-11.

01. October 2010

We welcome Alexander Heinemann, Markus Janczyk and Roland Pfister as new members of our Team.

The Schedule of the Research Colloquium is now available.

21. September 2010

Roland Pfister has received an award from the Studienstiftung des Deutschen Volkes.  

13. September 2010

We welcome Johannes Lohmann as a new member of Coboslab!

02. September 2010

Andrea's review on task switching is printed: Kiesel, A., Steinhauser, M, Wendt, M., Falkenstein, M., Jost, K., Phillip, A., & Koch, I. (2010). Control an interference in task switching - A review. Psychological Bulletin, 136, 849-874.

01. September 2010

We welcome Wilfried Kunde as our new professor for Cognitive Psychology!

26. August 2010

Roland and Andrea have a new paper in press in Acta Psychologica: Pfister, R., Kiesel, A., & Melcher, T. (in press). Adaptive control of ideomotor effect anticipations. Acta Psychologica.

A paper by Iris Güldenpenning, Dirk Koester, Wilfried Kunde, Matthias Weigelt and Thomas Schack is now available: Motor expertise modulates the unconscious processing of human body postures (2011). Experimental Brain Research, 213, 383-391.