2026 / in press / prepublished

Ahrens, A., Liesefeld, H.R., Kinner, J., & Janczyk, M. (2026). An attempt to replicate action-effect learning and its generalization without stimulus-stimulus learning. Psychological Research, 90, 84. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00426-026-02268-8

Calderon, S., Mac Giolla, E., Ask, K., …. Bausenhart, K. M., …, Huff, M., … Kaup, B., et al. (2026). Effects of psychological distance on mental abstraction: A registered report of four tests of construal-level theory. Advances in Methods and Practices in Psychological Science, 9. https://doi.org/10.1177/25152459251401177

Dudschig, C., Günther, F., & Mackenzie, I. G. (2026). Cognitive plausibility of count-based versus prediction-based word embeddings: A large-scale N400 study. Biological Psychology, 204, 109079. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.biopsycho.2025.109079

Janczyk, Mackenzie, I.G., Ulrich, R., & Koob, V. (2026). Ten years Diffusion Model for Conflict (DMC) tasks: Theoretical foundations, applications, practical recommendations, and open challenges. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, 33, 150. https://doi.org/10.3758/s13423-026-02878-8

Johansson, R. C. G., Bausenhart, K. M., Ulrich, R., & Kelber, P. (in press). The time–intensity uncertainty principle in vision. Attention, Perception, & Psychophysics.

Kaup, B., Günther, F., & Dudschig, C. (2025). The interplay of modal and amodal processes in language comprehension at the word level and beyond. Psychology of Learning and Motivation. https://doi.org/10.1016/bs.plm.2025.08.001

Kaup, B., Strozyk, J., Leuthold, H., Bub, D., & Miller, J. (in press). Does motor preparation influence word processing? Investigating the bidirectionality of action-language compatibility effects. Journal of Cognition.

Ram On, T., Kaup, B., Ulrich, R., Yeshurun, Y., & Havron, N. (2026). Representation of sequential time in young children. Language, Cognition and Neuroscience, 1–12. https://doi.org/10.1080/23273798.2026.2735434

 

2025

Bhatia, K., Osenberg, A., Janczyk, M., & Franz, V. H. (2025). Reviewing evidence for the Perception-Action Model from Garner interference. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 51, 217–242. https://doi.org/10.1037/xhp0001260.

Göppert, F., Bhatia, K., Meyen, S., & Franz, V. H. (2025). Realistic expectations for replications: Expecting too little is just as bad as expecting too much. Advances in Methods and Practices in Psychological Science, 8(3), 25152459251369846. https://doi.org/10.1177/25152459251369

Heller, J. (2025). The near-miss to cross-modal commutativity. Attention, Perception, & Psychophysics, 87(2), 619-636. https://doi.org/10.3758/s13414-025-03014-9

Janczyk, M., & Dignath, D. (2025). The role of time in action control: Evidence against anticipation of action-effect intervals and a possible motivational account for delayed-effect costs. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition. https://psycnet.apa.org/doi/10.1037/xlm0001560

Janczyk, M., Mackenzie, I. G., & Koob, V. (2025). A comment on the Revised Diffusion Model for Conflict Tasks (RDMC). Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, 32, 690-704. https://link.springer.com/article/10.3758/s13423-024-02574-5

Janczyk, M., Tucholski, K., Kaup, B., & Ulrich, R. (2025). Mental association of time and valence revealed with a novel chronometric approach: The positive-future effect. Memory & Cognition. https://link.springer.com/article/10.3758/s13421-025-01715-y

Johansson, R. C. G., & Ulrich, R. (2025). A sequential model of two-choice intensity identification. Frontiers in Cognition. https://doi.org/10.3389/fcogn.2025.1561842

Johansson, R. C. G., & Ulrich, R. (2025). Redundancy gains in absolute judgments of loudness and brightness. Computational Brain & Behavior. https://doi.org/10.1007/s42113-025-00236-w

Roth, L., Huber, J. F., Kronenthaler, S., van Dijck, J.-P., Cipora, K., Butz, M. V., & Nuerk, H.-C. (2025). Looks like SNARC spirit: Coexistence of short- and long-term associations between letters and space. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology. https://doi.org/10.1177/17470218251324437

van den Hoek Ostende, M. M., Gawrilow, C., Kaup, B., & Svaldi, J. (2025). Less distracted, more restrained: Attentional differences on the rapid serial visual presentation task in restrained eaters to food words and pictures. Appetite, 108356. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.appet.2025.108356

Vogt, A., Ganter, I., Kaup, B., & Abdel Rahman, R. (2025). Expressing experiences: Sensorimotor activations and interoceptive sensibility influence which words we choose when speaking. Acta Psychologica, 260, 105498. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.actpsy.2025.105498

Zhu, D., Kaiser, H., Held, L., Bausenhart, K. M., Dignath, D., Dudschig, C., Notebaert, W., Bryce, D., and Braem, S. (OSF preprint, 2025, November 15). What determines the scope of adaptive control in conflict tasks: A meta-analysis. https://osf.io/preprints/psyarxiv/u8ghw_v1

 

2024

Bausenhart, K. M., Kluvich, S., Ulrich, R., & Kaup, B. (2024). Construal level theory: Testing the association of abstraction level and object distance with experimentally induced distances. Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, 46. https://escholarship.org/uc/item/5w90h78m 

Grochulla, B., & Mallot H. A. (2024). Perceived spatial presence and body orientation affect the recall of out-of-sight places in an immersive sketching experiment. Psychological Research, 88(2), 509-522. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00426-023-01877-x

Janczyk, M., Eichfelder, L., Liesefeld, H. R., & Franz, V. (2024). Learning and transfer of response-effect relations. The Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology. https://doi.org/10.1177/17470218241284259

Janczyk, M., & Miller, J. (2024). Generalization of unpredictable action-effect features: Large individual differences with little on-average effect. The Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 77, 898-908. https://doi.org/10.1177/174702182311849

Johansson, R., C., G., Kelber, P., & Ulrich, R. (2024). Speeded classification of visual events is sensitive to crossmodal intensity correspondence. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 50, 902-919. https://doi.org/10.1037/xhp0001183

Johansson, R., C., G., & Ulrich, R. (2024). Serial processing of proximity groups and similarity groups. Attention, Perception, & Psychophysics, 86, 1303-1317. https://doi.org/10.3758/s13414-024-02861-2

Kaup, B., Ulrich, R., Bausenhart, K. M., Bryce, D., Butz, M. V., Dignath, D., Dudschig, C., Franz, V. H., Friedrich, C., Gawrilow, C., Heller, J., Huff, M., Hütter, M., Janczyk, M., Leuthold, H., Mallot, H., Nürk, H.-C., Ramscar, M., Said, N., Svaldi, J., & Wong, H. Y. (2024). Modal and amodal cognition: An overarching principle in various domains of psychology. Psychological Research, 88, 307–337. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00426-023-01878-w

Koch, N., Lohmann, J., Butz, M. V., & Nuerk, H.-C. (2024). Embodied magnitude processing: On the relation between the SNARC effect and perceived reachability. Journal of Numerical Cognition. 10. 1-24. https://doi.org/10.5964/jnc.10885

Kunde, W., & Janczyk, M. (2024). Thoughts about thoughts about actions and outcomes: Comment on Custers (2023). Motivation Science, 10, 392-397.

LeVinh, L., & Mallot, H. A. (2024). Am I crossing a border? Spatial regionalization and route choice depends on perceived landmark categorization. Spatial Cognition & Computation, 24, 61-84. https://doi.org/10.1080/13875868.2023.2242651

Potamianou, H., & Bryce, D. (2024). How flexible is cognitive control? (Mouse) tracking conflict adaptation across context similarities. Psychological Research, 88(2), 562-579. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00426-023-01874-0

Potamianou, H., & Bryce, D. (2024). When can we and when do we adapt? Evidence that conflict adaptation can transcend contexts early in childhood. OSF preprints. https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/4xngf

Tsaregorodtseva, O., Frazier, L., Stolterfoht, B., & Kaup, B. (2024). Do linguistic stimuli activate experiential colour traces related to the entities they refer to and, if so, under what circumstances? Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 77(4), 694-715. https://doi.org/10.1177/17470218231200489

Tsaregorodtseva, O. & Kaup, B. (2024). Experiential traces first: Does holding a location in visuospatial working memory affect the processing of space-associated words? Memory & Cognition, 52, 965–983. https://doi.org/10.3758/s13421-023-01512-5

van den Hoek Ostende, M. M., Schwarz, U., Gawrilow, C., Kaup, B., & Svaldi, J. (2024). Modality matters: Fasted individuals inhibit food stimuli better than neutral stimuli for words, but not for pictures. Nutrients, 16(14), 2190. https://doi.org/10.3390/nu16142190

2023

Bausenhart, K. M., Ulrich, R., & Kaup, B. (2023). Association between abstraction level and time: Are future and past more abstract than the present? Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 1-15. 17470218231217732. https://doi.org/10.1177/17470218231217732

Eichfelder, L., Franz, V. H., & Janczyk, M. (2023). Is there hierarchical generalization in response-effect learning?. Experimental Brain Research, 241(1), 135-144. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00221-022-06473-w

Koch, N. N., Huber, J. F., Lohmann, J., Cipora, K., Butz, M. V., & Nuerk, H.-C. (2023). Mental number representations are spatially mapped both by their magnitudes and ordinal positions. Collabra: Psychology, 9. https://doi.org/10.1525/collabra.67908

Koob, V., Mackenzie, I. G., Ulrich, R., Leuthold, H., & Janczyk, M. (2023). The role of task-relevant and task-irrelevant information in congruency sequence effects: Applying the Diffusion Model for Conflict tasks. Cognitive Psychology, 140, 101528. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cogpsych.2022.101528

Reichmann, K., Hütter, M., Kaup, B., & Ramscar, M. (2023). Variability and abstraction in evaluative conditioning: Consequences for the generalization of likes and dislikes. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 108, 104478. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jesp.2023.104478

Schütt, E., Dudschig, C., Bergen, B. K., & Kaup, B. (2023). Sentence-based mental simulations: Evidence from behavioral experiments using garden-path sentences. Memory & Cognition, 51, 952-965.https://doi.org/10.3758/s13421-022-01367-2

Schütt, E., Mackenzie, I. G., Kaup, B., & Dudschig, C. (2023). Replacing vertical actions by mouse movements: A web-suited paradigm for investigating vertical spatial associations. Psychological Research, 87, 194-209. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00426-022-01650-6

Simi, N., Mackenzie, I. G., Leuthold, H., Janczyk, M., & Dudschig, C. (2023). Cognitive control mechanisms in language processing: Are there both within-and across-task conflict adaptation effects? Quarterly Journal of Experimental Pschology, 76(3), 649-671. https://doi.org/10.1177/17470218221111789

Ulrich, R., de la Vega, I., Eikmeier, V., Günther, F., & Kaup, B. (2023). Mental association of time and valence. Memory & Cognition, 52, 444-458. https://doi.org/10.3758/s13421-023-01473-9

van den Hoek Ostende, M. M., Schwarz, U., Gawrilow, C., Kaup, B., & Svaldi, J. (2023). Practice makes perfect: Restrained eaters' heightened control for food images. European Eating Disorders Review, 32, 90-98. https://doi.org/10.1002/erv.3023

Vogt, A., Kaup, B., & Abdel Rahman, R. (2023). Experience-driven meaning affects lexical choices during language production. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 76, 1561-1584. https://doi.org/10.1177/17470218221125425

2022

Bhatia, K., Löwenkamp, C., & Franz, V. H. (2022). Grasping follows Weber’s law: How to use response variability as a proxy for JND. Journal of Vision, 22(12), Article 13. https://doi.org/10.1167/jov.22.12.13. 

Butz, M. V. (2022). Resourceful event-predictive inference: The nature of cognitive effort. Frontiers in Psychology, 13, Article 867328. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2022.867328 

Capuano, F., Claus, B. & Kaup, B. (2022). The experiential basis of compatibility effects in reading-by-rotating paradigms. Psychological Research, 87, 124-136. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00426-022-01663-1

Dudschig, C. (2022). Are control processes domain-general? A replication of 'To adapt or not to adapt? The question of domain-general cognitive control' (Kan et al. 2013). Royal Society Open Science, 9(7), Article 210550. https://doi.org/10.1098/rsos.210550

Dudschig, C. (2022). Language and non-linguistic cognition: Shared mechanisms and principles as reflected in the N400. Biological Psychology, 169, Article 108282. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.biopsycho.2022.108282Download

Günther, F., Press, S. A., Dudschig, C., & Kaup, B. (2022). The limits of automatic sensorimotor processing during word processing: Investigations with repeated linguistic experience, memory consolidation during sleep, and rich linguistic learning contexts. Psychological Research, 86, 1792-1803. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00426-021-01620-4

Hütter, M. (2022). An integrative review of dual and single-process accounts of evaluative conditioning. Nature Reviews Psychology, 1, 640-653. https://doi.org/10.1038/s44159-022-00102-7

Kaup, B. et al. (2022). Modal and amodal cognition: An overarching principle in various domains of psychology.  PsyArXiv.https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/fz85n

Schild, U., Steil, J., Ulrich, R., & Friedrich, C.K. (2022). Children anticipate past events to the left and future events to the right: Evidence from eye movements and time-space compatibility effects. PsyArXiv. https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/cjzd4

Ulrich, R., Bausenhart, K., & Wearden, J. H. (2022). Weber’s Law for timing and time perception: Reconciling the Poisson clock with Scalar Expectancy Theory (SET). Timing & Time Perception, 11, 167-197. https://doi.org/10.1163/22134468-bja10055

Winter, A., Dudschig, C., Miller, J., Ulrich, R. & Kaup, B. (2022). The action-sentence compatibility effect (ACE): Meta-analysis of a benchmark finding for embodiment. Acta Psychologica, 230, Article 103712. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.actpsy.2022.103712

 

2020/2021

Bhatia, K., Janczyk, M., & Franz, V. H. (2021). Is Garner interference valid evidence for the Perception-Action Model? Behavioural Brain Research, 239, 164-171.

Dudschig, C., Kaup, B., Svaldi, J., & Gulewitsch, M. D. (2021). Negation processing in children with ADHD: The generic problem of using negation in instructions. Journal of Psycholinguistic Research, 50, 1309-1320. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10936-021-09789-w

Heller, J. (2021). Internal references in cross-modal judgments: A global psychophysical perspective. Psychological Review, 128, 509-524. https://doi.org/10.1037/rev0000280

Kaup, B., Scherer, N., & Ulrich, R. (2021). Associations between abstract concepts: Investigating the relationship between deictic time and valence. Frontiers in Psychology, 12, Article 612720. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2021.612720

LeVinh, L., Meert, A., & Mallot. H. A. (2020). The influence of position on spatial representation in working memory. Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence,12162, 50–58. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-57983-8_4

Mackenzie, I. G., & Dudschig, C. (2021). DMCfun: An R package for fitting Diffusion Model of Conflict (DMC) to reaction time and error rate data. Methods in Psychology, 5, Article 100074. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.metip.2021.100074

Steil, J. N., Friedrich, C. K., & Schild, U. (2021). No evidence of robust noun-referent associations in German-learning 6- to 14-month-olds. Frontiers in Psychology, 12, Article 4410. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2021.718742