Publications - Verena Seibold

Journal Publications (Peer Review)

Rolke, B., Hein, E., Seibold, V. C., & Hütter, M. (2025). Understanding aesthetic impressions: A conditioning approach to the causal roles of valence and arousal. Psychology of Aesthetics, Creativity, and the Arts. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1037/aca0000800

Dietrich, S., Seibold, V. C., & Rolke, B. (2024). Discourse comprehension and referential processing: effects of contextual distance and semantic plausibility on presupposition processing. Language and Cognition, 16(4), 2032-2054. https://doi.org/10.1017/langcog.2024.45

Seibold, V.C., Balke, J., & Rolke, B. (2023). Temporal attention. Frontiers in Cognition, doi.org/10.3389/fcogn.2023.1168320

Dietrich, S., Hertrich, I., Blum, C., Seibold, V. C., & Rolke, B.  (2023). The cortical dynamics of context-dependent language processing, Language, Cognition and Neuroscience,  https://doi.org/10.1080/23273798.2023.2165123

Balke, J., Rolke, B., & Seibold, V. C. (2022). Temporal preparation accelerates spatial selection by facilitating bottom-up processing. Brain research, 1777. doi: 10.1016/j.brainres.2021.147765. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.brainres.2021.147765

Balke, J., Rolke, B., & Seibold, V. C. (2021). Reduction of temporal uncertainty facilitates stimulus-driven processes in spatial selection. Biological Psychology, 159, 108028. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.biopsycho.2021.108028

Seibold, V. C., Stepper, M. Y., & Rolke, B. (2020). Temporal attention boosts perceptual effects of spatial attention and feature-based attention. Brain and Cognition, 142, 105570. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.bandc.2020.105570

Dietrich, S., Hertrich, I., Seibold, V. C., & Rolke, B. (2019). Discourse management during speech perception: a functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) study. NeuroImage, 202, 116047. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuroimage.2019.116047

Seibold, V. C., Dietrich, S., & Rolke, B. (2019). Multi-dimensional selection by temporal attention and feature-based attention: Evidence from event-related potentials. Brain Research, 1722, 146340. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.brainres.2019.146340

Rolke, B., Stepper, M.Y., Seibold, V. C., & Hein, E. (2019). Aesthetic stimuli attract visual spatial attention. Art & Perception, 7, 52-81. https://doi.org/10.1163/22134913-20191101

Dietrich, S., Hertrich, I., Müller-Dahlhaus, F., Ackermann, H., Belardinelli, P., Desideri, D., Seibold, V. C., & Ziemann, U. (2018). Reduced performance during a sentence repetition task by continuous theta-burst magnetic stimulation of the pre-supplementary motor area. Frontiers in Neuroscience, 12, 361. https://doi.org/10.3389/fnins.2018.00361

Seibold, V. C. (2018). Do alerting signals increase the size of the attentional focus? Attention, Perception, & Psychophysics, 80, 402-425. https://doi.org/10.3758/s13414-017-1451-1

Rolke, B., Festl, F., & Seibold, V. C. (2016). Toward the influence of temporal attention on the selection of targets in a visual search task: An ERP study. Psychophysiology, 53, 1690-1701. https://doi.org/10.1111/psyp.12734

Seibold, V. C., & Rolke, B. (2014). Does temporal preparation facilitate visual processing in a selective manner? Evidence from attentional capture. Acta Psychologica, 137, 51-61. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.actpsy.2014.05.012

Kirsten, M., Tiemann, S., Seibold, V. C., Hertrich, I. Beck, S., & Rolke, B. (2014). When the polar bear encounters many polar bears: ERP context effects evoked by uniqueness failure. Language, Cognition, and Neuroscience, 29, 1147-1162. https://doi.org/10.1080/23273798.2014.899378

Seibold, V. C., & Rolke, B. (2014). Does temporal preparation speed up visual processing? Evidence from the N2pc. Psychophysiology, 51, 529-538. https://doi.org/10.1111/psyp.12196

Fiedler, A., Schröter, H., Seibold, V. C., & Ulrich, R. (2011). The auditory redundant signals effect depends on the number of percepts: Evidence from the mismatch negativity. Cognitive, Affective, & Behavioral Neuroscience, 11, 68-84. https://doi.org/10.3758/s13415-010-0013-y

Seibold, V. C., Bausenhart, K. M., Rolke, B., & Ulrich, R. (2011). Does temporal preparation increase the rate of sensory information accumulation? Acta Psychologica, 137, 56-64. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.actpsy.2011.02.006

Seibold, V. C., Fiedler, A., & Rolke, B. (2011). Temporal attention shortens perceptual latency: A temporal prior entry effect. Psychophysiology, 48, 708-717. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1469-8986.2010.01135.x

Bausenhart, K. M., Rolke, B., Seibold, V. C., & Ulrich, R. (2010). Temporal preparation influences the dynamics of information processing: Evidence for early onset of information accumulation. Vision Research, 50, 1025-1034. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.visres.2010.03.011

 

Conference Contributions

Posters / Talks

Dietrich, S., Achimova, A., Butz, M. V., Seibold, V. C.*, & Rolke, B. (2026, March 15–18). The bear or the lion - Who did it? Adaptive integration of verbs and adjectives in pronoun resolution [Poster presentation]. 67th Conference of Experimental Psychologists, Tübingen, Germany. [*Presenting author]

Spannowsky, N., & Seibold, V. C. (2025, March 09–12). Investigating boundary conditions for the alerting-congruency interaction: The role of alerting signal modality and task stimulus modality [Poster presentation]. 66th Conference of Experimental Psychologists, Frankfurt, Germany.

Seibold, V. C. (2024, March 17–20). Does the alerting-congruency interaction depend on a spatial task goal? [Poster presentation]. 65th Conference of Experimental Psychologists, Regensburg, Germany.

Balke, J., Rolke, B, & Seibold, V. C. (2022, September 5–8). Signal enhancement or noise exclusion? Effect of temporal preparation on perceptual processes [Poster presentation]. 15th Biannual Conference of the German Society of Cognitive Science (KogWis), Freiburg, Germany.

Seibold, V. C. (2022, September 5–8). Phasic alertness increases congruency effects in the flanker task for both spatial and non-spatial targets [Poster presentation]. 15th Biannual Conference of the Germa Society of Cognitive Science (KogWis), Freiburg, Germany.

Balke, J., Rolke, B., & Seibold, V. C. (2022, March 20–23). Does temporal preparation influence bottom-up salience in spatial selection? Evidence from the N2pc [Talk]. 64th Conference of Experimental Psychologists, Köln, Germany (Virtual conference).

Seibold, V. C. (2022, March 20–23). Phasic alertness increases congruency effects in the flanker task for both spatial and non-spatial targets [Poster presentation]. 64th Conference of Experimental Psychologists, Köln, Germany (Virtual conference).

Seibold, V. C. (2021, November 4–7). Alertness biases attention towards salient stimuli: Evidence from the flanker task and a hybrid flanker-search task [Poster presentation]. 62nd Annual Meeting of the Psychonomic Society (Psychonomics), USA (Virtual conference).

Balke, J., Rolke, B., & Seibold, V. C. (2021, March 14–17). Temporal preparation accelerates bottom-up processing - Evidence from the N1 and the N2pc [Long presentation]. 63rd Conference of Experimental Psychologists, Ulm, Germany (Virtual conference).

Seibold, V. C. (2021, March 14–17). How alertness modulates congruency effects in the flanker task depends on stimulus salience [Short presentation]. 63rd Conference of Experimental Psychologists, Ulm, Germany (Virtual conference).

Balke, J., Rolke, B., & Seibold, V. C. (2019, September 25–28). Temporal preparation facilitates bottom-up salience rather than top-down inhibition of distractors in visual search [Poster presentation]. 21st Meeting of the European Society for Cognitive Psychology (ESCoP), Tenerife, Spain.

Rolke, B., & Seibold, V. C. (2019, September 25–28). The benefit of being in time: Does temporal attention selectively boost relevant stimulus features. In J. Theeuwes (Chair), Attention and time [Symposium]. 21st Meeting of the European Society for Cognitive Psychology (ESCoP), Tenerife, Spain.

Seibold, V. C. (2019, September 25–28). Does alertness bias attention towards salient stimuli? [Poster presentation]. 21st Meeting of the European Society for Cognitive Psychology (ESCoP), Tenerife, Spain.

Balke, J., & Seibold, V. C. (2019, April 15–17). Temporal preparation facilitates bottom-up processes in spatial selection [Poster presentation]. 61th Conference of Experimental Psychologists, London, UK.

Seibold, V. C. (2019, April 15–17). Does alertness bias attention towards salient stimuli? Evidence from stimulus-driven attentional capture [Poster presentation]. 61th Conference of Experimental Psychologists, London, UK.

Lahmer, K. M., Glatz, C., Seibold, V. C., & Chuang, L. (2018, September, 23–25). Looming auditory collision warnings for semi-automated driving: An ERP study [Poster presentation]. AutomotiveUI ’18, Toronto, Canada.

Lahmer, K. M., Chuang, L., & Seibold, V. C. (2018, March 11–14). Looming sounds benefit emergency braking due to their saliency [Poster presentation]. 60th Conference of Experimental Psychologists, Marburg, Germany.

Seibold, V. C., & Rolke, B. (2018, March 11–14). Temporal preparation reduces stimulus conflict beyond an effect on spatial attention [Poster presentation]. 60th Conference of Experimental Psychologists, Marburg, Germany.

Seibold, V. C. (2017, August 27–31).Why does distractor cueing impair visual search? An experimental test of a feature inhibition account [Poster presentation]. 40th Conference on Visual Perception (ECVP), Berlin, Germany.

Seibold, V. C. (2017, March 26–29). Does advance knowledge of a distractor’s feature in visual search lead to active inhibition of that feature? [Poster presentation]. 59th Conference of Experimental Psychologists, Dresden, Germany.

Seibold, V. C., & Rolke, B. (2016, March 21–23). Search and destroy: Distractor cueing in visual search first leads to selection, then to inhibition of distractors [Poster presentation]. 58th Conference of Experimental Psychologists, Heidelberg, Germany.

Brauner, C., Seibold, V. C., & Rolke, B. (2015, November 19–22). One, two, many: The costs of presupposition processing in different contexts [Poster presentation]. 56th Annual Meeting of the Psychonomic Society (Psychonomics), Chicago, USA.

Seibold, V. C. (2015, November 19–22). Do task-irrelevant accesory signals increase the scope of visuo-spatial attention? [Poster presentation]. 56th Annual Meeting of the Psychonomic Society (Psychonomics), Chicago, USA.

Seibold, V. C., & Rolke, B. (2015, March 8–11). Do alerting signals broaden the attentional beam? [Poster presentation]. 57th Conference of Experimental Psychologists, Hildesheim, Germany.

Rolke, B., Ruiz Fernández, S., Seibold, V. C., & Rahona, J. J. (2014, September). Crossed hands stay on the time-line. Cognitive Processing, 15 (Suppl. 1), 134–135.

Seibold V. C., Festl, F., & Rolke, B. (2014, September). Temporal preparation increases response conflict by faster direct response activation. Cognitive Processing, 15 (Suppl. 1), 67–68.

Festl, F., Seibold, V. C., & Rolke, B. (2014, March 30–April 2). Selective processing within the brain: The contribution of temporal, spatial, and feature-based attention [Poster presentation]. 56th Conference of Experimental Psychologists, Gießen, Germany.

Rolke, B., Festl., F., Hein, E., & Seibold, V. C. (2014, March 30–April 2). Die Zeit und die Flanker: Eine Geschichte zum Verweilen [Poster presentation]. 56th Conference of Experimental Psychologists, Gießen, Germany.

Seibold, V. C., Festl., F., & Rolke B. (2014, March 30–April 2). Why does temporal preparation increase response conflict? Evidence from an event-related potential (ERP) study [Poster presentation]. 56th Conference of Experimental Psychologists, Gießen, Germany.

Rolke, B., & Seibold, V. C. (2013, March 24–27). Hurtig beschleunigt - wenn es semantisch verarbeitet wird [Poster presentation]. 55th Conference of Experimental Psychologists, Vienna, Austria.

Seibold, V. C., Leroy, C., & Rolke, B. (2013, March 24–27). Knowing when but not knowing where - does temporal preparation specifically reduce distractor interference in visual search? [Poster presentation]. 55th Conference of Experimental Psychologists, Vienna, Austria.

Rolke, B., Schmid, M., & Seibold, V. C. (2012, April 1–4). Kann zeitliche Vorbereitung die Wahrnehmung räumlich unvorhersagbarer Reize verbessern? [Poster presentation]. 54th Conference of Experimental Psychologists, Mannheim, Germany.

Schmid, M., Tiemann, S., Seibold, V. C., Hertrich, I., Beck, S., & Rolke, B. (2012, April 1–4). The time course of processing the uniqueness-PSP of the definite article: Evidence from event-related potentials [Poster presentation]. 54th Conference of Experimental Psychologists, Mannheim, Germany.

Seibold, V. C., & Rolke, B. (2012, April 1–4). Temporal preparation: Attention within time in action. In I. Scharlau & B. Rolke (Chairs), Attention and temporal processing [Symposium]. 54th Conference of Experimental Psychologists, Mannheim, Germany.

Rolke, B., Schmid, M., Steinborn, M. B., & Seibold, V. C. (2011, March 13–16). Zeitliche Vorbereitung verbessert die Merkmalsintegration [Poster presentation]. 53th Conference of Experimental Psychologists, Halle, Germany.

Seibold, V. C., Bausenhart, K. M., Rolke, B., & Ulrich, R. (2011, March 13–16). Beeinflusst zeitliche Vorbereitung die Rate der Akkumulation sensorischer Informationen? [Poster presentation]. 53th Conference of Experimental Psychologists, Halle, Germany.

Seibold, V. C., Bausenhart, K. M., & Rolke, B. (2011, September 29–October 1). Temporal expectancy shortens the onset of perceptual processes. In R. Thomaschke (Chair), Motor and perceptual aspects of temporal expectation [Symposium]. 17th Meeting of the European Society for Cognitive Psychology (ESCoP), San Sebastian, Spain.

Steinborn, M. B., Langner, R., Seibold, V. C., & Rolke, R. (2011, March 13–16). Dimensionen von subjektivem Arousal und zeitliche Vorbereitung: "Energy" und "Tension" als Prädiktoren des sequenziellen Vorperiodeneffekts [Poster presentation]. 53th Conference of Experimental Psychologists, Halle, Germany.

Rolke, B., & Seibold, V. C. (2010, March 22–24). Targets benefit from temporal preparation! Evidence from para- and metacontrast masking [Poster presentation]. 53th European Conference on Visual Perception (ECVP), Lausanne, Switzerland.

Rolke, B., Seibold, V. C., Eitel., A. (2010, March 22–24). Towards the influence of temporal preparation on meta- and paracontrast masking [Poster presentation]. 52th Conference of Experimental Psychologists, Saarbrücken, Germany.

Seibold, V. C., Fiedler, A., & Rolke, B. (2010, March 22–24). Temporal attention shortens perceptual latency: A temporal prior entry effect. [Symposium talk]. 52th Conference of Experimental Psychologists, Saarbrücken, Germany.

Seibold, V. C., Bausenhart, K. M., Rolke, B., & Ulrich, R. (2009, March 29–April 1). Der Effekt zeitlicher Vorbereitung: frühere oder beschleunigte Reizverarbeitung? [Poster presentation]. 51th Conference of Experimental Psychologists, Jena, Germany.

 

Symposium Organization

Seibold, V. C., Rolke, B., & Scharlau, I. (2015, March 08–11). Attention and time in perception and action [Symposium]. 57th Conference of Experimental Psychologists, Hildesheim, Germany.

Weiß, K., & Seibold, V. C. (2013, March 24–27). When attention meets time: On the interplay of attention and time in temporal processing, perception, and action [Symposium]. 55th Conference of Experimental Psychologists, Vienna, Austria.

 

Colloquia / Invited talks

Seibold, V. C. (2024, April). Aufmerksamkeit als Filter unserer Wahrnehmung [Transl.: Attention as a filter for perception]. Vortrag am Leibniz-Kolleg Tübingen (Studienjahr 2023/2024; Thema: "Menschen. Verändern. - Wer sind wir? Wie wollen wir leben? Wer werden wir sein?"), University of Tübingen. 

Seibold, V. C. (2019, July). Why does phasic alertness increase congruency effects in cognitive control tasks? Talk at the department colloquium (Host: Prof. Dr. Rico Fischer, Experimental Psychology), University of Greifswald. 

Seibold, V. C. (2015, December). Warning signal effects on selective attention and executive control. Talk at the Cognitive Science Colloquium, University of Tübingen.

Seibold, V. C. (2011, October). Wie beeinflusst zeitliche Vorbereitung die Verarbeitung von Reizen [Transl.: How does temporal preparation affect stimulus processing]? Talk at the Cognitive Science Colloquium, University of Tübingen.

 

Miscellaneous

Seibold, V. C. (2026, Mai). “Und was macht man dann damit?” - Perspektiven für Studierende der Kognitionswissenschaft [Transl.: “And what do you do with that?” – Prospects for students of Cognitive Science]. Talk at the 2nd Cognitive Science Conference of Students (CoSCoS), University of Tübingen.