Abstract The continuous tracking of mouse or finger movements has become an increasingly popular research method for investigating cognitive and motivational processes such as decision-making, action-planning, executive functions. In the present paper, we evaluate discuss how apparently trivial design choices researchers may impact participants’ behavior and, consequently, a study’s results. We first provide thorough comparison mouse- finger-tracking setups on basis Simon task. then vary...

Perception and action rely on integrating or binding different features of stimuli responses. Such bindings are short-lived, but they can be retrieved for a limited amount time if any their is reactivated. This particularly true stimulus-response bindings, allowing flexible recycling previous plans. A relation to learning associations suggests itself, accounts have proposed as an initial step forging in long-term memory. The evidence this claim surprisingly mixed, however. Here we propose...

GENERAL COMMENTARY article Front. Psychol., 23 July 2013Sec. Decision Neuroscience https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2013.00473

Abstract Post-error slowing is one of the most widely employed measures to study cognitive and behavioral consequences error commission. Several methods have been proposed quantify post-error effect, we discuss two main methods: The traditional method comparing response times in correct trials that follow another trial, a more recent proposal corresponding pre-error trials. Based on thorough re-analyses datasets, argue latter provides an inflated estimate by also capturing (partially)...

Human perception and action rely on a fundamental binding mechanism that forges integrated event representations from distributed features. Encountering any one of these features later can retrieve the whole event, thus expediting cognitive processing. The traditional view confines it to successful episodes, holding human system does not leverage errors for optimizing corresponding representations. Here we use sequential analyses erroneous episodes explore whether promotes future behavior...

Re-encountering a stimulus retrieves nominally relevant, categorical response features related to previous action decisions in this stimulus. Whether binding and retrieval extend irrelevant, metric relating an actual body movement is unknown, however. In two experiments, we thus tested whether repeating target or distractor stimuli across trials the irrelevant duration of spatial responses these stimuli. We found subtle indication such by task-relevant stimuli, suggesting that also operate...

In three experiments, we examined the cognitive underpinnings of self-serving dishonesty by manipulating load under different incentive structures. Participants could increase a financial bonus misreporting outcomes private die rolls without any risk detection. At same time, they had to remember letter strings varying length. If honesty is automatic response tendency and cognitively demanding, lying behavior should be less evident high load. This hypothesis was supported outcome two out...

Even though electroencephalography has played a prominent role for lie detection via personally relevant information, the electrophysiological signature of active lying is still elusive. We addressed this with two experiments in which participants helped virtual police officer to locate knife. Crucially, before response, they announced whether would or tell truth about knife's location. This design allowed us study lie-telling absence rare and significant oddball stimuli that are typically...

The cognitive processes underlying dishonesty, especially the inhibition of automatic honest response tendencies, are reflected in times and other behavioral measures. Here we suggest that explicit false alibis might have a considerable impact on these operations. We tested this hypothesis controlled experimental setup. Participants first performed several tasks preexperimental mission (akin to common mock crime procedures) received alibi afterward. stated alternative actions participants...

Violating rules comes with cognitive conflict for the rule-breaker. Here, we probed means to reduce behavioral effects of this by studying combined impact recency and frequency rule violations. We found that violating a facilitated initiation subsequent violation, while notable costs relative rule-based responding remained in measures response execution. Such during execution vanished, however, when violation worked concert. That is, it is possible overcome (a) having violated particular...

Humans follow rules by default, and violating even simple induces cognitive conflict for the rule breaker. Previous studies revealed this in various behavioral measures, including response times movement trajectories. Based on these experiments, we investigated electrophysiological signature of deliberately a stimulus-response mapping rule. Such violations were characterized delayed attenuated P300 component when evaluating rule-relevant stimulus, most likely reflecting increased complexity....

The human cognitive system houses efficient mechanisms to monitor ongoing actions. Upon detecting an erroneous course of action, these are commonly assumed adjust processing mitigate the error's consequences and prevent future action slips. Here, we demonstrate that error detection has far earlier by feeding back directly onto motor activity, thus cancelling movements immediately. We tested this prediction immediate auto-correction analysing how force correct keypress actions evolves over...

We assessed the relation of creativity and unethical behaviour by manipulating thinking style participants ( N = 450 adults) measuring impact this manipulation on prevalence dishonest behaviour. Participants performed one three inducer tasks: alternative uses task to promote divergent thinking, remote associates convergent or a simple classification for rule-based thinking. Before after manipulation, conducted mind game as straightforward measure dishonesty. Dishonest increased from before...

Rule violations have usually been studied from a third-person perspective, identifying situational factors that render more or less likely. A first-person perspective of the agent actively violates rules, on other hand, is only just beginning to emerge. Here we show committing rule violation sensitises towards subsequent negative stimuli as well authority-related stimuli. In Prime-Probe design, used an instructed rule-violation task Prime and word categorisation Probe. Also, employed control...

Binding between representations of stimuli and actions later retrieval these compounds provide efficient shortcuts in action control. Recent observations indicate that mechanisms are not only effective when episodes go as planned, but they also seem to be at play awry. Moreover, the human cognitive system even corrects traces error commission on fly because it binds intended actually executed response concurrent task-relevant stimuli, thus enabling a correct, encountering stimulus again....

Creativity is a driving force for human development and has fascinated scholars centuries. Surprisingly little known about the cognitive underpinnings of putting creative ideas into action, however. To shed light on this part process, we tracked how hand movements unfolded when choosing between either traditional or use given object. Participants could freely decide both options (Experiment 1,

Giving a dishonest response to question entails cognitive conflict due an initial activation of the truthful response. Following monitoring theory, responding could therefore elicit transient and sustained control adaptation processes mitigate such conflict, current experiments take on scope specificity in dishonesty. Transient reduces differences between honest following recent Sustained has similar behavioral signature but is driven by overall frequency responding. Both types frequent...

Cognitive theories of dishonesty revolve around an automatic activation honest response tendencies, which is assumed to impair selection for the intended dishonest response. Clear-cut evidence claim still limited, however. We therefore present a novel approach responding that takes advantage psychological refractory period methodology. Four experiments yielded supporting assumption prolonged during responding. Moreover, they also showed differences in early and revealed additional downstream...

Previous studies demonstrated binding and retrieval of stimuli correct responses even for those episodes in which the actual response was wrong (goal-based retrieval). In current study, we tested whether based on a co-activation erroneous occurred simultaneously with goal-based binding, could have been masked by more efficient bindings previous studies. pre-registered experiment (n = 62), employed sequential prime-probe design three-choice colour categorisation task. Including three...

Binding and retrieval of stimulus features, response their attentional weighting tune cognitive processing to situational demands. The two mechanisms promote successful actions, especially in situations which such actions depend on controlled processing. Here we explored binding control states that follow from erroneous actions. By definition, errors are characterized by insufficient but at the same time, error detection has been shown trigger corresponding adjustments prevent future...