Publications

preprints

Eder, A. B., Dignath, D. & Gamer, M. Motivational Control of Habits: A Preregistered fMRI Study. Stage 1 preregistration, in principle acceptance of version 3 by Peer Community in Registered Reports. https://osf.io/k8ygb 

Mittenbühler, M., Schwöbel, S., Dignath, D., Kiebel, S. J., & Butz, M. V. (2024). A Rational Trade-Off Between the Costs and Benefits of Automatic and Controlled Processing. 

2024

Koob, V., Dignath, D., & Janczyk, M. (2024). Task-order control in dual-tasks: Only marginal interactions between conflict at lower levels and higher processes of task organization. Attention, Perception, & Psychophysics, 1-23.

Marschner, M., Dignath, D., & Knoblich, G. (2024). Me or we? Action-outcome learning in synchronous joint action. Cognition, 247, 105785.

Frings, C., Beste, C., Benini, E., Möller, M., Dignath, D., Giesen, C. G., ... & Schmalbrock, P. (in press). Consensus definitions of perception-action-integration in action control. Communications Psychology.

Held, L. K., Vermeylen, L., Dignath, D., Notebaert, W., Krebs, R. M., & Braem, S. (in press). Reinforcement learning of adaptive control strategies. Communications Psychology.

Schiltenwolf, M., Dignath, D., & Hazeltine, E. (in press). Binding of response-independent task rules. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review.

Spitzer, M. W. H., Musslick, S., Janz, J., Kiesel, A., & Dignath, D. (in press). Task Performance Errors and Rewards Affect Voluntary Task Choices. Psychological Research.

Kaup, B., Ulrich, R., Bausenhart, K. M., Bryce, D., Butz, M. V., Dignath, D., ... & Wong, H. Y. (in press). Modal and amodal cognition: an overarching principle in various domains of psychology. Psychological Research.

Straub, E., Schiltenwolf, M., Kiesel, A., & Dignath, D. (2024) Generalizability of control across cognitive and emotional conflict. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance.

Schiltenwolf, M., Kiesel, A., Frings C., & Dignath, D.  (2024). Memory for abstract Control States does not decay with increasing retrieval delays. Psychological Research.

2023 

Zhang, J., Bürkner, P., Kiesel, A., & Dignath, D. (2023). How emotional stimuli modulate cognitive control: A meta-analytic review on studies with conflict tasks. Psychological Bulletin. 149(1-2), 25–66.

Schiltenwolf, M., Kiesel, A., & Dignath, D. (2023). No temporal decay of cognitive control in the congruency sequence effect. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 49(8), 1247-1263.

Janczyk, M., Giesen, C. G., Moeller, B., Dignath, D., & Pfister, R. (2023). Perception and action as viewed from the Theory of Event Coding: A multi-lab replication and effect size estimation of common experimental designs. Psychological Research, 1-31. 

2022

Dignath, D., Eder, A., Herbert, C., & Kiesel, A. (2022). Self-related primes reduce congruency effects in the Stroop task . Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 151(11), 2879–2892. 

Eck, J., Dignath, D., Kalckert, A., & Pfister, R. (2022). Instant Disembodiment of Virtual Body Parts. Attention, Perception, & Psychophysics, 84(8), 2725-2740.  

Eder, A. B., & Dignath, D. (2022). Associations do not energize behavior: on the forgotten legacy of Kurt Lewin. Psychological Research, 86(8), 2341-2351. 

Spitzer, M., Kiesel, A., & Dignath, D. (2022). Performance Errors Influence Voluntary Task Choices. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 48(6), 665–688. 

Schiltenwolf, M., Kiesel, A., & Dignath, D. (2022). No Temporal Decay of Cognitive Control in the Congruency Sequence Effect. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 49(8), 1247-1263 

Straub, E., Dames, H., Kiesel, A., & Dignath, D. (2022). Does body posture reduce the Stroop effect? Evidence from two conceptual replications and a meta-analysis. Acta Psychologica, 224, 103497. 

Straub, E., Schmidts, C., Kunde, W., Zhang, J., Kiesel, A., & Dignath (2022). Limitations of cognitive control on emotional distraction – Congruency in the Color Stroop task does not modulate the Emotional Stroop effect. Cognitive, Affective, and Behavioral Neuroscience. 21-41.

Zhang, J., Kiesel, A., & Dignath, D. (2022). When negative affect drives attentional control: The role of motivational orientation. Motivation and Emotion, 46(4), 546-556. 

2021

Dignath, D., & Kiesel, A. (2021) Further Evidence for the Binding and Retrieval of Control-States from the Flanker Task. Experimental Psychology, 68(5), 264–273. 

Dignath, D., Kiesel, A., Schiltenwolf, M., & Hazeltine, E. (2021). Multiple routes to control in the prime-target task: Congruence sequence effects emerge due to modulation of irrelevant prime activity and utilization of temporal order information. Journal of Cognition. 4 (1) 

Dignath, D.*, Born, G.*, Eder, A., Topolinski, S., & Pfister, R. (2021). Imitation of action-effects increase social affiliation. Psychological Research. (* = shared first authorship). 85 (5), 1922-1933 

Schuch, S. *, & Dignath, D.,* (2021). Task-Conflict biases Decision Making. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General. (* = shared first authorship). 150(5), 864–872. 

Rieger, T., C., Mittelstädt, V., Dignath, D., & Kiesel, A. (2021). Investigating limits of task prioritization in dual-tasking: Evidence from the prioritized processing and the psychological refractory period paradigms. Psychological Research. 85 (1), 384-396 

Monno, M., Spitzer, M., Miller, J., Dignath, D., & Kiesel, A. (2021). Scaling of the parameters for cost balancing in self-organized task switching. Journal of Cognition. 4(1): 8 

Ludwig, J., Dignath, D., & Lukas, S. (in press). Positive and Negative Action-Effects Improve Task-Switching Performance. Acta Psychologica. 221, 103440. 

Pfister, R., Klaffehn, A., Kalckert, A., Kunde, W., & Dignath, D. (2021), How to lose a hand: Sensory updating drives disembodiment. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review. 28 (3), 827-833 

2020

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

Dignath, D., Wirth, R., Kühnhausen, J., Gawrilow, C., Kunde, W., & Kiesel, A. (2020). Motivation drives conflict adaptation. Motivation Science, 6(1), 84–89.

Dignath, D., Kiesel, A., Frings, C., & Pastötter, B. (2020) Electrophysiological evidence for action-effect prediction. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 149(6), 1148–1155.

Berger, A.,Mitschke, V., Dignath, D., Eder, A., & van Steenbergen, H. (2020). The face of control: Corrugator supercilii tracks aversive conflict signals in the service of adaptive cognitive control. Psychophysiology, 57, e13524.

Frings, C., Koch, I., Rothermund, K., Dignath, D., Giesen, C., Hommel, B., Kiesel, A., Kunde, W., Mayr, S., Moeller, B., Möller, M., Pfister, R. & Philipp, A. (in press). Merkmalsintegration und Abruf als wichtige Prozesse der Handlungssteuerung – eine Paradigmen-übergreifende Perspektive. Psychologische Rundschau. 

Frings, C., Hommel, B., Koch, I., Rothermund, K., Dignath, D., Giesen, C., Kiesel, A., Kunde, W., Mayr, S., Moeller, B., Möller, M., Pfister, R. & Philipp, A. (in press). Binding and retrieval in action control (BRAC). Trends in Cognitive Science, 24 (5), 375-387  

Straub, E., Kiesel, A., & Dignath, D. (2020). Cognitive control of emotional distraction - valence-specific or general? Cognition and Emotion. 34 (4), 807-821 

2019

Dignath, D., Johannsen, L., Hommel, B., & Kiesel, A. (2019) Contextual control of conflict: Reconciling cognitive-control and episodic retrieval accounts of sequential conflict modulation. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance,45(9), 1265-1270.

Dignath, D., Berger, A., Spruit, I., M., & van Steenbergen, H. (2019) Temporal dynamics of error-related corrugator supercilii and zygomaticus major activity: Evidence for implicit emotion regulation following errors. International Journal of Psychophysiology, 146, 208–216.

Dignath, D., Herbort, O., Pieczykolan, A., Huestegge, L., &  Kiesel, A. (2019). Flexible coupling of covert spatial attention and motor planning based on learned spatial contingencies. Psychological Research, 83(3), 476-484.

Schuch, S., Dignath, D., Steinhauser, M., & Janczyk, M. (2019). Monitoring and control in multitasking. Psychonomic Bulletin and Review, 26 (19), 222-240.

Schröder, P.A., Dignath, D., & Janczyk, M. (2019). Individual differences in uncertainty tolerance are not associated with cognitive control functions in the flanker task. Experimental Psychology. 65 (4), 245- 256.

Eder, A., & Dignath, D. (2019) Expected value of control and the motivational control of habitual action. Frontiers in Psychology, 10, Article 1812.

Zhang, J., Kiesel, A., & Dignath, D. (2019). Affective influence on context-specific proportion congruent (CSPC) effect: Neutral or affective facial expressions as context stimuli. Experimental Psychology, 66, 86-97.

Kunde, W., Foerster, A., Weigelt, M., & Dignath, D. (2019). On the ball: Short-term consequences of movement fakes. Acta Psychologica, 198, 102872.

2018

Dignath, D., & Lotze-Hermes, Farmer, H., & Pfister, R. (2018). Contingency and contiguity of imitative behaviour affect social affiliation. Psychological Research, 82 (4), 819-831.

Mittelstädt, V., Dignath, D., Schmidt-Ott, M., & Kiesel, A. (2018). Exploring the Repetition Bias in Voluntary Task Switching. Psychological Research, 82(1), 78-91.

Schwarz, K. A., Burger, S., Dignath, D., Kunde, W., & Pfister, R. (2018). Action-effect binding and agency. Consciousness and Cognition. 65, 304-309

Künzell, S., Bröker, L., Dignath,D.,  Ewolds, H., Raab, M., & Thomaschke, R. (2018). What is a task? An ideomotor perspective. Psychological Research, 82 (1), 4-11.

Foerster, A., Pfister, R., Schmidts, C.,  Dignath, D., Wirth, R., & Kunde, W. (2018).  Focused cognitive control in dishonesty: evidence for predominantly transient conflict adaptation. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 44(4), 578-602.

2017

Dignath, D., & Janczyk, M. (2017). Anticipation of delayed action-effect: Learning when an effect occurs, without knowing what this effect will be. Psychological Research 81 (5), 1072–1083.

Dignath, D., & Janczyk, M., & Eder, A.B. (2017) Phasic valence and arousal do not influence post-conflict adjustments in the Simon task. Acta Psychologica, 174, 31-39.

Eder, A. B., Dignath, D., Erle, T., & Wiemer, J. (2017). Shocking action: Facilitative effects of punishing electric shocks on action control. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 146, 1204-1215.

Eder, A. B., Pfister, R., Dignath, D., & Hommel, B. (2017). Anticipatory affect during action preparation: Evidence from backward compatibility in dual-task performance.Cognition and Emotion, 6, 1211-1224. 

Pfister, R.*, Weller, L.*, Dignath, D., & Kunde, W. (2017). What or when? The impact of anticipated social action effects is driven by action-effect compatibility, not delay. Attention, Perception, & Psychophysics. 79 (7), 2132–2142. (* = shared first authorship)

Kiesel, A., & Dignath, D. (2017) Effort in Multitasking: Local and global assessment of effort. Frontiers in Psychology.

2016

Wirth, R.*, Dignath, D.*, Pfister, R., Kunde, W., & Eder, A. B. (2016). Attracted by rewards: Disentangling the motivational influence of rewarding and punishing targets and distractors. Motivation Science, 2(3), 143-156.(* = shared first authorship)

Eder, A. B., & Dignath, D. (2016). Asymmetrical effects of posttraining outcome revaluation on outcome-selective Pavlovian-to-instrumental transfer in human adults. Learning & Motivation 54, 12-21.

Eder, A. B., & Dignath, D. (2016). Influence of verbal instructions on effect-based action control. Psychological Research,  81(2), 355-365.

Eder, A.B. & Dignath, D. (2016). Cue-elicited food seeking is eliminated with aversive outcomes following outcome devaluation. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology. 69(3), 574-588.

2015

Dignath, D., & Eder, A.B. (2015). Stimulus Conflict Triggers Behavioral Avoidance. Cognitive, Affective, and Behavioral Neuroscience.15(4), 822-836.

Dignath, D., Kiesel, A., & Eder, A.B. (2015). Flexible Conflict Management: Conflict Avoidance and Conflict Adjustment in Reactive Cognitive Control. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition. 41(4), 975-988.

2014

Dignath, D., Pfister, R., Eder, A. B., Kiesel, A. & Kunde, W. (2014) Representing the hyphen in bi-directional action-effect associations: Automatic integration of time intervals into cognitive action structures. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition. 40(6), 1701-1712.

Dignath, D., Pfister, R., Eder, A. B., Kiesel, A., & Kunde, W. (2014) Something in the way she moves: Movement trajectories reveal dynamics of self-control. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, 21(3), 809-816.

Pfister, R., Janczyk, M., Wirth, R., Dignath, D. & Kunde, W. (2014) Thinking with portals: Revisiting kinematic cues to intention. Cognition, 133(2), 464-473.

Eder, A. B., & Dignath, D. (2014). I like to get nothing: Implicit and explicit evaluation of avoided negative outcomes. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Animal Behavior Processes, 40, 55-62.

2013

Dignath, D. & Eder, A. B. (2013). Recall of observed actions modulates the end-state comfort effect just like recall of one's own actions. Experimental Brain Research, 231(1), 75-83.

Pfister, R., Dignath, D., Hommel, B., & Kunde, W. (2013). It takes two to imitate: Anticipation and imitation in social interaction. Psychological Science, 24. 2117-2121.

Foerster, A., Pfister, R., Schmidt, C., Dignath, D. & Kunde, W. (2013). Honesty saves time (and justifications). Frontiers in Decision Neuroscience, 4, 473