TY  - JOUR
A1  - Gressmann, Marcel
A1  - Janczyk, Markus
T1  - The (Un)Clear Effects of Invalid Retro-Cues
JF  - Frontiers in Psychology
N2  - Studies with the retro-cue paradigm have shown that validly cueing objects in visual working memory long after encoding can still benefit performance on subsequent change detection tasks. With regard to the effects of invalid cues, the literature is less clear. Some studies reported costs, others did not. We here revisit two recent studies that made interesting suggestions concerning invalid retro-cues: One study suggested that costs only occur for larger set sizes, and another study suggested that inclusion of invalid retro-cues diminishes the retro-cue benefit. New data from one experiment and a reanalysis of published data are provided to address these conclusions. The new data clearly show costs (and benefits) that were independent of set size, and the reanalysis suggests no influence of the inclusion of invalid retro-cues on the retro-cue benefit. Thus, previous interpretations may be taken with some caution at present.
KW  - visual working memory
KW  - retro-cue
KW  - attention
KW  - replication
Y1  - 2016
U6  - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:bvb:20-opus-165296
VL  - 7
IS  - 244
ER  - 
TY  - JOUR
A1  - Janczyk, Markus
A1  - Heinemann, Alexander
A1  - Pfister, Roland
T1  - Instant attraction: Immediate action-effect bindings occur for both, stimulus- and goal-driven actions
N2  - Flexible behavior is only possible if contingencies between own actions and following environmental effects are acquired as quickly as possible; and recent findings indeed point toward an immediate formation of action-effect bindings already after a single coupling of an action and its effect. The present study explored whether these short-term bindings occur for both, stimulus- and goal-driven actions (“forced-choice actions” vs. “free-choice actions”). Two experiments confirmed that immediate action-effect bindings are formed for both types of actions and affect upcoming behavior. These findings support the view that action-effect binding is a ubiquitous phenomenon which occurs for any type of action.
KW  - Psychologie
KW  - ideomotor theory
KW  - action planning
KW  - free-choice
KW  - forced-choice
KW  - action-effects
KW  - binding
Y1  - 2012
U6  - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:bvb:20-opus-76203
ER  - 
TY  - JOUR
A1  - Pfister, Roland
A1  - Schwarz, Katharina A.
A1  - Janczyk, Markus
A1  - Dale, Rick
A1  - Freeman, Jonathan B.
T1  - Good things peak in pairs: a note on the bimodality coefficient
JF  - Frontiers in Psychology
N2  - A commentary on
Assessing bimodality to detect the presence of a dual cognitive process

by Freeman, J. B., and Dale, R. (2013). Behav. Res. Methods 45, 83–97. doi: 10.3758/s13428-012-0225-x
KW  - distribution analysis
KW  - bimodality
Y1  - 2013
U6  - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:bvb:20-opus-190413
SN  - 1664-1078
VL  - 4
ER  -