Metrical patterning and rhyme are frequently employed in poetry but also infant-directed speech, play, rites, festive events. Drawing on four line-stanzas from 19th 20th German that feature end regular meter, the present study tested hypothesis meter have an impact aesthetic liking, emotional involvement, affective valence attributions. Hypotheses postulate such effects been advocated ever since ancient rhetoric poetics, yet they barely empirically tested. More recently, field of cognitive...

Abstract The antecedents and outcomes of individual‐level flow are well documented in a large body literature. However, does not only occur isolation ‐ quite to the contrary, recent evidence suggests that social interaction can facilitate experience flow. Therefore, we propose taxonomy, which distinguishes five different states according two global factors: interactional synchrony self‐other overlap. Solitary bears all characteristics developed by Csikszentmihalyi. Co‐active is facilitated...

Performing two actions at the same time usually results in performance costs. However, recent studies have also reported dual-action benefits: performing only one of possible may necessitate inhibition initially activated, but unwarranted second action, leading to single-action Presumably, preconditions determine occurrence and strength such inhibition-based (a) response set reductivity (b) action prepotency. A nonreductive (given when all responses be kept working memory) creates inhibitory...

When a single action is required, along with the simultaneous inhibition of another action, this typically results in frequent false-positive executions latter (inhibition failures). The absence inhibitory demands dual-action trials can render performance less error-prone (and sometimes faster) than single-action trials. In present study, we investigated temporal dynamics control difficulties by varying preparation time (for execution and inhibition). two experiments, participants responded...

Performing two actions at the same time (vs. in isolation) usually results performance costs. However, recent studies have reported that it is also possible to observe dual-action benefits, a finding challenges standard theories of multiple action control. This issue typically resolved by assuming under certain circumstances, performing only one actions-cognitively represented terms what do-necessitates costly stopping initially activated but unwarranted second action. Here, we test this...

Efficient decoding of facial expressions and gaze direction supports reactions to social environments. Although both cues are processed fast accurately, when how these integrated is still debated. We investigated the temporal integration emotion cues. Participants responded letters that were randomly presented on four faces. Two faces initially showed direct gaze, two averted gaze. Upon target presentation, changed (from vice versa). Simultaneously, from neutral either an approach- or...

Abstract Recent multiple action control studies have demonstrated difficulties with single-action (vs. dual-action) execution when accompanied by the requirement to inhibit a prepotent additional response (e.g., highly automatic eye movement). Such dual-action performance benefit is typically characterized frequent false-positive executions of currently unwarranted response. Here, we investigated whether frequency saccades affected ease translating stimulus into spatial oculomotor (S-R...

Abstract Previous research has shown that the simultaneous execution of two actions (instead only one) is not necessarily more difficult but can actually be easier (less error-prone), in particular when executing one action requires inhibition another action. Corresponding inhibitory demands are particularly challenging to-be-inhibited highly prepotent (i.e., characterized by a strong urge to executed). Here, we study range important potential sources such prepotency. Building on previously...

Abstract. Based on current integration theories of face–voice processing, the present study had participants process 1,152 videos faces uttering digits. Half contained gender-incongruent stimuli (vs. congruent in other half). Participants indicated digit magnitude or parity. Tasks were presented pure blocks (only 1 task) and task switching (using colored cues to specify task). The results indicate significant congruency effects blocks, but partially reversed switching, probably due enhanced...

In this paper, we tested the idea that local changes in action demands (e.g., due to an invalid cue or trial-by-trial) result frugal modifications of existing plans via action-plan-modification operations. We implemented experimental procedure making use a indicates requirements for upcoming signal with certain degree reliability. Crucially, incongruent cue-stimulus pairs either require action-plan modification "resetting" prepared plan and reselecting new response from scratch....

Abstract: While performing two actions at the same time has mostly been associated with reduced performance, several recent studies have observed opposite effect, that is, dual-action benefits. Previous evidence suggests benefits result from single-action inhibitory costs – more specifically, it appears under certain circumstances, representations are derived by removing (i.e., inhibiting) one of component actions. In present paper, we investigated if this is tied to presence multi-modal...

Abstract. Social exclusion, even from minimal game-based interactions, induces negative consequences. We investigated whether the nature of relationship with excluder modulates effects ostracism. Participants played a virtual ball-tossing game stranger and friend (friend condition) or their romantic partner (partner while being fully included, excluded, excluded only by stranger, close other. Replicating previous findings, full exclusion impaired participants’ basic-need satisfaction...

Abstract Recent multiple action control studies have demonstrated difficulties with single-action (vs. dual-action) execution when accompanied by the requirement to inhibit a prepotent additional response. Such dual-action performance benefit is typically characterized frequent erroneous co-executions of currently unwarranted Here, we investigated whether frequency inhibitory failures affected ease stimulus-response (S-R) translation. Participants switched between executing single saccade,...