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15Dynamic changes in task preparation in a multi-task environment: The task transformation paradigmCognition 247 (C): 105784. 2024.
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20Internal attention modulates the functional state of novel stimulus-response associations in working memoryCognition 245 (C): 105739. 2024.
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90Brain correlates of subjective freedom of choiceConsciousness and Cognition 22 (4): 1271-1284. 2013.The subjective feeling of free choice is an important feature of human experience. Experimental tasks have typically studied free choice by contrasting free and instructed selection of response alternatives. These tasks have been criticised, and it remains unclear how they relate to the subjective feeling of freely choosing. We replicated previous findings of the fMRI correlates of free choice, defined objectively. We introduced a novel task in which participants could experience and report a gr…Read more
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28The impact of free will beliefs on implicit learningConsciousness and Cognition 107 (C): 103448. 2023.
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The Influence of High-Level Beliefs on Self-Regulatory Engagement: Evidence From Thermal Pain StimulationIn Ezequiel Morsella & T. Andrew Poehlman (eds.), Consciousness and action control, Frontiers Media Sa. 2014.
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24When triangles become humanInteraction Studies. Social Behaviour and Communication in Biological and Artificial Systemsinteraction Studies / Social Behaviour and Communication in Biological and Artificial Systemsinteraction Studies 16 (1): 54-67. 2015.Until recently, it was assumed that co-representation of others’ actions, an essential part in joint action, is biologically tuned. However, research demonstrated that we also simulate actions of non-biological interaction partners under certain conditions. In the present study, we investigated whether perceived intentionality or perspective taking is the underlying mechanisms of this phenomenon. Participants saw a short video fragment of a non-biological agent as main character. The movements o…Read more
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14The effects of declaratively maintaining and proactively proceduralizing novel stimulus-response mappingsCognition 201 (C): 104295. 2020.
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17Attentional prioritization reconfigures novel instructions into action-oriented task setsCognition 194 (C): 104059. 2020.
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38The hand of God or the hand of Maradona? Believing in free will increases perceived intentionality of others’ behaviorConsciousness and Cognition 70 (C): 80-87. 2019.
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20Reaction time indices of automatic imitation measure imitative response tendenciesConsciousness and Cognition 68 (C): 115-118. 2019.
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91Power to the will: How exerting physical effort boosts the sense of agencyCognition 129 (3): 574-578. 2013.
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15Temporal binding effect in the action observation domain: Evidence from an action-based somatosensory paradigmConsciousness and Cognition 60 1-8. 2018.
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43Automatic imitation of pro- and antisocial gestures: Is implicit social behavior censored?Cognition 170 (C): 179-189. 2018.
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12Fake feedback on pain tolerance impacts proactive versus reactive control strategiesConsciousness and Cognition 42 366-373. 2016.
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The action congruency effect on the feelings of agencyConsciousness and Cognition 51 212-222. 2017.
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31It wasn’t me! Motor activation from irrelevant spatial information in the absence of a responseFrontiers in Human Neuroscience 9. 2015.
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33Priming determinist beliefs diminishes implicit components of self-agencyFrontiers in Psychology 5. 2014.
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26When triangles become human: Action co-representation for objectsInteraction Studiesinteraction Studies Social Behaviour and Communication in Biological and Artificial Systems 16 (1): 54-67. 2015.Until recently, it was assumed that co-representation of others’ actions, an essential part in joint action, is biologically tuned. However, research demonstrated that we also simulate actions of non-biological interaction partners under certain conditions. In the present study, we investigated whether perceived intentionality or perspective taking is the underlying mechanisms of this phenomenon. Participants saw a short video fragment of a non-biological agent as main character. The movements o…Read more
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18When triangles become human: Action co-representation for objectsInteraction Studies 16 (1): 54-67. 2015.Until recently, it was assumed that co-representation of others’ actions, an essential part in joint action, is biologically tuned. However, research demonstrated that we also simulate actions of non-biological interaction partners under certain conditions. In the present study, we investigated whether perceived intentionality or perspective taking is the underlying mechanisms of this phenomenon. Participants saw a short video fragment of a non-biological agent as main character. The movements o…Read more
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12More than associations: An ideomotor perspective on mirror neuronsBehavioral and Brain Sciences 37 (2): 195-196. 2014.
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45When do we simulate non-human agents? Dissociating communicative and non-communicative actionsCognition 115 (3): 426-434. 2010.
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15The cognitive representation of intending not to act: Evidence for specific non-action-effect bindingCognition 117 (1): 9-16. 2010.
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91Reducing self-control by weakening belief in free willConsciousness and Cognition 21 (3): 1482-1490. 2012.Believing in free will may arise from a biological need for control. People induced to disbelieve in free will show impulsive and antisocial tendencies, suggesting a reduction of the willingness to exert self-control. We investigated whether undermining free will affects two aspects of self-control: intentional inhibition and perceived self-control. We exposed participants either to anti-free will or to neutral messages. The two groups then performed a task that required self-control to inhibit …Read more
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97From Intentions to Neurons: Social and Neural Consequences of Disbelieving in Free WillTopoi 33 (1): 5-12. 2014.The problem of free will is among the most fascinating and disputed questions throughout the history of philosophy and psychology. Traditionally limited to philosophical and theological debate, in the last decades it has become a matter of scientific investigation. The theoretical and methodological advances in neuroscience allowed very complex psychological functions related to free will (conscious intentions, decision-making, and agency) to be investigated. In parallel, neuroscience is gaining…Read more
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2Unconscious determinants of free decisions in the human brainNature Neuroscience 11 (5): 543--545. 2008.
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25Minimizing motor mimicry by myself: Self-focus enhances online action-control mechanisms during motor contagionConsciousness and Cognition 19 (1): 98-106. 2010.Ideomotor theory of human action control proposes that activation of a motor representation can occur either through internally-intended or externally-perceived actions. Critically, sometimes these alternatives of eliciting a motor response may be conflicting, for example, when intending one action and perceiving another, necessitating the recruitment of enhanced action-control to avoid motor mimicry. Based on previous neuroimaging evidence, suggesting that reduced mimicry is associated with sel…Read more