Publications

General Psychology

Recent Publications

in press/2023

Hartmann, E.-M., Gade, M., & Steinhauser, M. (in press). Neural correlates of adaptive cognitive control in working memory. Psychophysiology.

Dumsky, J., Maier, M. E., & Steinhauser, M. (2023). Effects of the number of competing responses on pre- and post-response conflict. Biological Psychology, 182, 108643.

Moretti, L., Koch, I., Steinhauser, M., & Schuch, S. (in press). Stimulus-triggered task conflict affects task-selection errors in task switching: A Bayesian multinomial processing tree modeling approach. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, & Cognition.

Weigl, K., Steinhauser, M., & Riener, A. (2023). Mobility of the future: Gender and age differences in the anticipated acceptance of automated vehicles. Gender, Technology, and Development, 27, 88-108.

Moretti, L., Koch, I., Steinhauser, M., & Schuch, S. (2023). Disentangling task-selection failures from task-execution failures in task switching: an assessment of different paradigms. Psychological Research, 87, 929-950.

Maier, M. E., Liepelt, R., & Steinhauser, M. (2023). The role of action inhibition for behavioral control in joint action. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, 30, 200-211.

2022

Wurm, F., & Steinhauser, M. (2022). Why cognitive control matters in learning and decision-making. Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews, 136, 104636.

Jurczyk, V., Steinhauser, R., Dreisbach, G., & Steinhauser, M. (2022). To switch or to repeat? - Commonalities and differences in the electrophysiological correlates of preparation for voluntary and forced task choices. Psychophysiology, 59, e14062.

Foerster, A., Steinhauser, M., Schwarz, K. A., Kunde, W., & Pfister, R. (2022). Error cancellation. Royal Society Open Science, 9, 210397.

Hartmann, E., Gade, M., & Steinhauser, M. (2022). Adaptive control of working memory. Cognition, 224, 105053.

Di Gregorio, F., Maier, M. E., & Steinhauser, M. (2022). Early correlates of error-related brain activity predict subjective timing of error awareness. Psychophysiology, 59, e14020.

Kirst, L., Ernst, B., Kern, A., & Steinhauser, M. (2022). The problem of motion sickness and its implications for automated driving. Riener, A., Jeon, M., & Alvarez, I. (Eds.). User Experience Design in the Era of Automated Driving (pp. 123-150). Heidelberg: Springer.

2021

Weigl, K., Schartmüller, C., Wintersberger, P., Steinhauser, M., & Riener, A. (2021). The influence of experienced severe road traffic accidents on take-over reactions and non-driving-related tasks in an automated driving simulator study. Accident Analysis & Prevention, 162, 106408.

Weigl, K., Schartmüller, C., Riener, A., & Steinhauser, M. (2021). Development of the Questionnaire on the Acceptance of Automated Driving (QAAD): Data-driven models for Level 3 and Level 5 automated driving. Transportation Research Part F: Traffic Psychology and Behaviour, 83, 42-59.

Wurm*, F., Walentowska*, W., Ernst, B., Severo, M. C., Pourtois, G., & Steinhauser, M. (2021). Task learnability modulates surprise but not valence processing for reinforcement learning in probabilistic choice tasks. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 34, 34-53. *Shared authorship

Steinhauser, R., Kübler, S., Steinhauser, M., & Schubert, T. (2021). Neural correlates of task-order preparation in dual tasks: an EEG study. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 33, 2181-2196.

Schartmüller, C., Weigl, K., Löcken, A., Wintersberger, P., Steinhauser, M., & Riener, A. (2021). Displays for productive non-driving related tasks: Visual behavior and its impact in conditionally automated driving. Multimodal Technologies and Interaction, 5, 21.

Moretti, L., Koch, I., Steinhauser, M., & Schuch, S. (2021). Errors in task switching: Investigating error aftereffects in a N-2 repetition cost paradigm. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, & Cognition, 47, 1720-1737.

Rey-Mermet, A., Gade, M., & Steinhauser, M. (2021). Multiplicative priming of the correct response explains the interaction between Simon and flanker congruency. PLoS ONE, 16, e0248172. 

Steinhauser, R., & Steinhauser, M. (2021). Adaptive rescheduling of error monitoring during multitasking. NeuroImage, 232, 117888.

Weigl, K., & Forstner, T. (2021). Design of paper-based visual analogue scale items. Educational and Psychological Measurement, 81, 595-611.

2020

Reinmüller, K., Kiesel, A., & Steinhauser, M. (2020). Behavioral adaptation effects in adaptive forward collision warning systems: An investigation of primary and secondary task performance. Accident Analysis & Prevention, 146, 105718.

Wurm, F., Ernst, B., & Steinhauser, M. (2020). The influence of internal models on feedback-related brain activity. Cognitive, Affective, & Behavioral Neuroscience, 20, 1070-1089.

Ernst, B., & Steinhauser, M. (2020). The effect of feedback novelty on ERP correlates of feedback processing. Brain & Cognition, 144, 105610.

Steinhauser, M. (2020). Wie unser Gehirn Fehler verarbeitet: Implikationen für den Umgang mit Fehlern in der Schule. Böttger, H. & Sambanis, M. (Eds.). Focus on Evidence III - Fremdsprachendidaktik trifft Neurowissenschaften (pp. 59-72). Tübingen: Narr.

Rausch, M., Zehetleitner, M., Steinhauser, M., & Maier, M. E. (2020). Cognitive modelling reveals distinct electrophysiological markers of decision confidence and error monitoring. NeuroImage, 218, 116963.

Gade, M., & Steinhauser, M. (2020). The impact of cue format and cue transparency on task switching performance. Psychological Research, 84, 1346–1369.

Weigl, K., & Ponocny, I. (2020). Group sequential designs applied in psychological research. Methodology - European Journal of Research Methods for the Behavioral and Social Sciences, 16, 75-91.

Di Gregorio, F., Maier, M. E., & Steinhauser, M. (2020). Are errors detected before they occur? Early error sensations revealed by metacognitive judgments on the timing of error awareness. Consciousness & Cognition, 77, 102857.

Dignath, D., Eder, A., Steinhauser, M., & Kiesel, A. (2020). Conflict monitoring and the affective signaling hypothesis - an integrative review. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, 27, 193-216.

2019

Schartmüller, C., Weigl, K., Wintersberger, P., Riener, A., & Steinhauser, M. (2019). Text comprehension: Heads-up vs. auditory displays: Implications for a productive work environment in SAE level 3 automated vehicles. Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Automotive User Interfaces and Interactive Vehicular Applications (pp. 342-354). New York, NY: ACM.

Hartmann, E.-M., Rey-Mermet, A., & Gade, M. (2019). Same same but different? Modeling N-1 switch cost and N-2 repetition cost with the diffusion model and the linear ballistic accumulator model. Acta Psychologica, 198, 102858.

Flaisch, T., Steinhauser, M., & Schupp, H. T. (2019). Adaptive cognitive control attenuates the late positive potentials to emotional distractors. NeuroImage, 200, 51-58.

Steinhauser, R., & Steinhauser, M. (2019). Error-preceding brain activity links neural markers of task preparation to cognitive flexibility and stability. NeuroImage, 197, 344-353.

Reinmüller, K., & Steinhauser, M. (2019). Adaptive front collision warnings: The impact of imperfect technology on warning effectiveness and acceptance. Accident Analysis & Prevention, 128, 217-229.

Gbadeyan, O., Steinhauser, M., Hunold, A., Martin, A. K., Haueisen, J., & Meinzer, M. (2019). Modulation of adaptive cognitive control by prefrontal high definition transcranial direct current stimulation in older adults. Journal of Gerontology: Psychological Sciences, 74, 1086-1100.

Di Gregorio*, F., Ernst*, B., & Steinhauser, M. (2019). Differential effects of instructed and objective feedback reliability on feedback-related brain activity. Psychophysiology, 56, e13399. (*shared first authorship)

Rey-Mermet, A., Gade, M., Souza, A. S., von Bastian, C. C., & Oberauer, K. (2019). Is executive control related to working memory capacity and fluid intelligence? Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 148, 1335-1372.

Schuch, S., Dignath, D., Steinhauser, M., & Janczyk, M. (2019). Monitoring and control in multitasking. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, 26, 222-240.

Maier, M. E., Ernst, B., & Steinhauser, M. (2019). Error-related pupil dilation is sensitive to the evaluation of different error types. Biological Psychology, 141, 25-34.

Rey-Mermet, A., Gade, M., & Steinhauser, M. (2019). Sequential conflict resolution under multiple concurrent conflicts: An ERP study. NeuroImage, 188, 411–418. 

Steinhauser, M., & Andersen, S. K. (2019). Rapid adaptive adjustments of selective attention following errors revealed by the time course of steady-state visual evoked potentials. NeuroImage, 186, 83-92.

2018

Steinhauser, K., Leist, F., Maier, K., Michel, V., Pärsch, N., Rigley, P., Wurm, F., & Steinhauser, M. (2018). Effects of emotions on driving behavior. Transportation Research Part F: Traffic Psychology and Behaviour, 59, 150-163.

Steinhauser, R., Wirth, R., Kunde, W., Janczyk, M., & Steinhauser, M. (2018). Common mechanisms in error monitoring and action effect monitoring. Cognitive, Affective, & Behavioral Neuroscience, 59, 1159-1171.

Rey-Mermet, A., Gade, M., & Oberauer, K. (2018). Should we stop thinking about inhibition? Searching for individual and age differences in inhibition ability. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 44(4), 501–526.

Reinmüller, K., Köhler, L., & Steinhauser, M. (2018). Adaptive warning signals adjusted to driver-passenger conversation: Impact of system awareness on behavioral adaptation. Transportation Research Part F: Traffic Psychology and Behaviour, 58, 242-252.

Steinhauser, R. & Steinhauser, M. (2018). Preparatory brain activity in dual-tasking. Neuropsychologia, 114, 32-40.

Ernst, B. & Steinhauser, M. (2018). Effects of feedback reliability on feedback-related brain activity: A feedback valuation account. Cognitive, Affective, & Behavioral Neuroscience, 18, 596-608.

Wirth, R., Steinhauser, R., Janczyk, M., Steinhauser, M., & Kunde, W. (2018). Long-term and short-term action-effect links and their impact on effect monitoring. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception & Performance, 44, 1186-1198.

Di Gregorio, F., Maier, M. E., & Steinhauser, M. (2018). Errors can elicit an error positivity in the absence of an error negativity: Evidence for independent systems of human error monitoring. Neuroimage, 172, 427-436.

Rey-Mermet, A., & Gade, M. (2018). Inhibition in aging: What is preserved? What declines? A meta-analysis. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, 25(5), 1695–1716.

Wintersberger, P., Riener, A., Schartmüller, C., Frison, A. K., & Weigl, K. (2018). Let me finish before I take over: Towards attention aware device integration in highly automated vehicles. In Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Automotive User Interfaces and Interactive Vehicular Applications (pp. 53-65). New York, NY: ACM. doi:10.1145/3239060.3239085

Kundinger, T., Riener, A., Sofra, N., & Weigl, K. (2018). Drowsiness detection and warning in manual and automated driving: Results from subjective evaluation. In Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Automotive User Interfaces and Interactive Vehicular Applications (pp. 229-236). New York, NY: ACM. doi:10.1145/3239060.3239073

2017

Steinhauser, M., Maier, M. E., & Ernst, B. (2017). Neural correlates of reconfiguration failure reveal the time course of task-set reconfiguration. Neuropsychologia, 106, 100-111.

Rey-Mermet, A., & Meier, B. (2017). How long-lasting is the post-conflict slowing after incongruent trials? Evidence from the Stroop, Simon, and flanker tasks. Attention, Perception, & Psychophysics, 79, 1945-1967. https://doi.org/10.3758/s13414-017-1348-z

Ernst, B., Reichard, S. M., Riepl, R. F., Steinhauser, R., Zimmermann, S. F., & Steinhauser, M. (2017). The P3 and the subjective experience of time. Neuropsychologia, 103, 12-19.

Maier, M. E., & Steinhauser, M. (2017). Working memory load impairs the evaluation of behavioral errors in the medial frontal cortex. Psychophysiology, 54, 1472-1482.

Ernst, B. & Steinhauser, M. (2017). Top-down control over feedback processing: The probability of valid feedback affects feedback-related brain activity. Brain & Cognition, 115, 33-40.

Steinhauser, M., Ernst, B., & Ibald, K. W. (2017). Isolating component processes of post-error slowing with the psychological refractory period paradigm. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, & Cognition, 43, 653-659.

Garofalo, S., Timmermann, C., Battaglia, S., Maier, M. E., & di Pellegrino, G. (2017). Mediofrontal negativity signals unexpected timing of salient outcomes. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 29, 718-727.

Steinhauser, R., Maier, M. E., & Steinhauser, M. (2017). Neural signatures of adaptive post-error adjustments in visual search, Neuroimage, 150, 270-278.

2016

Bastian, C. C. von, Souza, A. S., & Gade, M. (2016). No Evidence for Bilingual Cognitive Advantages: A Test of Four Hypotheses. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 145, 246-258. doi: 10.1037/xge0000120.

Di Gregorio, F., Steinhauser, M., & Maier, M.E. (2016). Error-related brain activity and error awareness in an error classification paradigm. Neuroimage, 139, 202-210.

Flaisch, T., Steinhauser, M., & Schupp, H.T. (2016). Emotional aftereffects: When emotion impairs subsequent picture recognition. Emotion, 16, 987-996.

Gbadeyan, O., McMahon, K., Steinhauser*, M., & Meinzer*, M. (2016). Stimulation of dorsolateral prefrontal cortex enhances adaptive cognitive control: A high-definition transcranial direct current stimulation study. Journal of Neuroscience, 36, 12530-12536. (*shared senior authorship)

Gbadeyan, O., Steinhauser, M., McMahon, K., & Meinzer, M. (2016). Safety, tolerability, blinding efficacy and behavioural effects of a novel MRI-compatible high-definition tDCS set-up. Brain Stimulation, 9, 545-552.

Maier, M. E., & Steinhauser, M. (2016). Error significance but not error expectancy predicts error-related negativities for different error types. Behavioral Brain Research, 297, 259-267.

Maier, M. E., Scarpazza, C., Starita, F., Filogamo, R., & Làdavas, E. (2016). Error monitoring is related to processing internal affective states. Cognitive, Affective, & Behavioral Neuroscience, 16, 1050-1062.

Pfister R., Wirth R., Schwarz K., Förster, A., Steinhauser, M., & Kunde, W. (2016). The electrophysiological signature of deliberate rule violations. Psychophysiology, 53, 1870-1877.

Pfister, R., Wirth, R., Schwarz, K., Steinhauser, M., & Kunde, W. (2016). Burdens of non-conformity: Motor execution reveals cognitive conflict during deliberate rule violations. Cognition, 147, 93-99.

Rey-Mermet, A., & Gade, M. (2016). Contextual within-trial adaption of cognitive control: Evidence from the combination of conflict tasks. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 42, 1505-1532. https://doi.org/10.1037/xhp0000229

Steinhauser*, M., Flaisch*, T., Meinzer, M., & Schupp, H. T. (2016). Cognitive control modulates preferential processing of affective stimuli. Neuropsychologia, 91, 435-443. (*shared first authorship)

2015

Dundon, N., Làdavas, E., Maier, M. E., & Bertini, C. (2015). Multisensory stimulation in hemianopic patients boosts orienting responses to the hemianopic field and reduces attentional resources to the intact field. Restorative Neurology and Neuroscience, 33, 405-419.

Achtziger, A., Alos-Ferrer, C., Hügelschäfer, S., & Steinhauser, M. (2015). Higher incentives can impair performance: Neural evidence on reinforcement and rationality. Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience,10, 1477–1483.

Borhani, K., Làdavas, E., Maier, M. E., Avenanti, A. & Bertini, C. (2015). Emotional and movement-related body postures modulate visual processing. Social Cognitive & Affective Neuroscience, 10, 1092-1101. doi: 10.1093/scan/nsu167. 

Ernst, B., & Steinhauser, M. (2015). Effects of invalid feedback on learning and feedback-related brain activity in decision-making. Brain and Cognition, 99, 78–86.

Gade, M. (2015). On tasks and cognitive constructs for the bilingual (non-) advantage. Cortex. doi.org/10.1016/j.cortex.2015.07.017

Maier, M. E., Di Gregorio, F., Muricchio, T., Di Pellegrino, G. (2015). Impaired rapid error monitoring but intact error signaling following rostral anterior cingulate cortex lesions in humans. Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, 9, 339, doi: 10.3389/fnhum.2015.00339.

Steinhauser, M., Gade, M. (2015). Distractor onset but not preparation time affects the frequency of task confusions in task switching. Frontiers in Psychology, 6:1671. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2015.01671