Marcel Bra

Biographic Data

ID3885634
NAMEMarcel Bra
GIVEN NAMESMarcel
FAMILY NAMEBra
SIGNATUREBRA M
AFFILIATIONSGhent University
ORCID0000-0002-3364-4019
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS38
TOTAL CITATIONS3
WORKS AS AUTHOR38
WORKS AS EDITOR0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1999
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2026
H-INDEX1

  • No effect of online cyberball social exclusion on interval estimation of action-outcome events

    Open AccessCarl Michael Galang, Manisha Biswas et al.ARTICLEConsciousness and Cognition2026

  • The interference effect of direct eye gaze in the Stroop paradigm

    Open AccessDanna Oomen, Letizia Amodeo et al.ARTICLEActa Psychologica2026

    Direct eye gaze is a salient social stimulus that may hinder concurrent task performance, even when presented with another prominent distracter, such as the incongruent word in the Stroop paradigm. Previous studies (Chevallier et al., 2013;Conty et al., 2010) reported a stronger Stroop effect when direct gaze (vs. closed eyes) was shown above the letter strings, though not all studies found this effect. We had two main goals. The first was to rep…

  • Moderate manipulation to somatosensory feedback does not affect Libet-style intentional action

    Open AccessYu Hei Shum, Carl Michael Galang et al.ARTICLEPsychological Research2025

    The existence of free will has been called into question by Benjamin Libet’s seminal experiment, who argued that our conscious decision is preceded by an unconscious decision reflected in the readiness potential (RP). Alternatively, it has been argue that the RP rather reflects a decision process in which different signals accumulate until they reach the intention threshold, at which point an agent experience their intention simultaneously. This …

  • Temporal binding during deliberate rule breaking

    Open AccessCarl Michael Galang, Ayça Akan et al.ARTICLEConsciousness and Cognition2025

    Rules are deeply ingrained in our cognitive architecture. • Deliberately breaking a rule modulates early and late delays during a temporal binding task. • Early delays are due to cognitive conflict, later delays to effort. • No evidence was found to suggest a relationship between rule breaking and explicit judgments of control. Rules are deeply ingrained in our cognition. The current study investigates the influence of rule breaking on explicit s…

  • Don't judge a book by its cover

    Open AccessMathias Van der Biest, Sam Verschooren et al.ARTICLEJournal of Experimental Social…2025References: 5

  • Covert and overt automatic imitation are correlated

    Open AccessEmiel Cracco, Oliver Genschow et al.ARTICLEPsychonomic Bulletin & Review2024

  • Anticipated imitation of multiple agents

    Open AccessCarl Michael Galang, Emiel Cracco et al.ARTICLECognition2024

    It is well-established that people tend to mimic one another's actions, a crucial aspect of social interactions. Anticipating imitation has been shown to boost motor activation and reaction times for congruent actions. However, prior research predominantly focused on dyads, leaving gaps in our knowledge regarding group dynamics. This study addresses this gap, conducting three experiments using extensive online data. Participants engaged in antici…

  • Dynamic changes in task preparation in a multi-task environment

    Open AccessMengqiao Chai, Clay B Holroyd et al.ARTICLECognition2024

  • Internal attention modulates the functional state of novel stimulus-response associations in working memory

    Open AccessSilvia Formica, Ana F Palenciano et al.ARTICLECognition2024

    Information in working memory (WM) is crucial for guiding behavior. However, not all WM representations are equally relevant simultaneously. Current theoretical frameworks propose a functional dissociation between 'latent' and 'active' states, in which relevant representations are prioritized into an optimal (active) state to face current demands, while relevant information that is not immediately needed is maintained in a dormant (latent) state.…

  • Using a Veto paradigm to investigate the decision models in explaining Libet-style experiments

    Open AccessYu Hei Shum, Carl Michael Galang et al.ARTICLEConsciousness and Cognition2024

    The question of whether free will exists or not has intrigued philosophers for centuries. About 40 years ago, cognitive neuroscientists such as Benjamin Libet have joined the discussion by demonstrating that an ERP component, the readiness potential (RP), precedes the reported time of decision to act by a few hundred milliseconds. Libet et al. (1983) argued that our brains unconsciously prepare the movement before we experience any conscious inte…

  • Imitative inhibitory control is associated with psychotic experiences in a sample from the general population

    Open AccessJosé Luis Ulloa, Daniel Núñez et al.ARTICLEFrontiers in Psychiatry2024

    Psychotic experiences (PE) are prevalent and associated with several negative mental health outcomes in both clinical and general population, particularly in young people. A promising avenue to understand the mechanisms underlying PE is to investigate functions that may be related to specific neural systems. One of these key cognitive mechanisms is the ability to control our imitative responses, which is strongly linked to an adequate social func…

  • Does belief in free will influence biological motion perception

    Open AccessWei Peng, Emiel Cracco et al.ARTICLEPsychological Research2023

  • Manipulating free will beliefs using online video games

    Open AccessNel Tavernier, David Wisniewski et al.ARTICLEPsychological Research2023

    Research in social psychology and experimental philosophy has investigated lay people’s free will beliefs (FWB). Using different approaches (i.e. experimental manipulations and vignette studies), they investigated how FWB relate to other concepts, and whether changing FWB has an impact on downstream processes such as social behavior. However, both approaches have shortcomings. While experimental manipulations used in social psychology suffer from…

  • The impact of free will beliefs on implicit learning

    Open AccessDavid Wisniewski, Davide Rigoni et al.ARTICLEConsciousness and Cognition2023

  • Does anxiety induced by social interaction influence the perception of bistable biological motion

    Open AccessWei Peng, Emiel Cracco et al.ARTICLEActa Psychologica2021

    When observing point light walkers orthographically projected onto a frontoparallel plane, the direction in which they are walking is ambiguous. Nevertheless, observers more often perceive them as facing towards than as facing away from them. This phenomenon is known as the "facing-the-viewer bias" (FTV). Two interpretations of the facing-the-viewer bias exist in the literature: a top-down and a bottom-up interpretation. Support for the top-down …

  • Professional Judges’ Disbelief in Free Will Does Not Decrease Punishment

    Open AccessOliver Genschow, Heinz Hawickhorst et al.ARTICLESocial Psychological and…2021

    There is a debate in psychology and philosophy on the societal consequences of casting doubts about individuals’ belief in free will. Research suggests that experimentally reducing free will beliefs might affect how individuals evaluate others’ behavior. Past research has demonstrated that reduced free will beliefs decrease laypersons’ tendency toward retributive punishment. This finding has been used as an argument for the idea that promoting an…

  • A comparison of self-bias measures across cognitive domains

    Open AccessLetizia Amodeo, Jan R Wiersema et al.ARTICLEBMC Psychology2021

    In contrast with the view of a 'unidimensional' self-bias, our findings provide evidence for a heterogeneous and multifaceted self consisting of a variety of related and unrelated aspects. None of the self-bias indices were found to relate to autistic traits in our neurotypical sample

  • The effects of declaratively maintaining and proactively proceduralizing novel stimulus-response mappings

    Open AccessSilvia Formica, Carlos González‐garcía et al.ARTICLECognition2020

  • Attentional prioritization reconfigures novel instructions into action-oriented task sets

    Open AccessCarlos González‐garcía, Silvia Formica et al.ARTICLECognition2020

  • Investigating the effect of trustworthiness on instruction-based reflexivity

    Open AccessMathias Van der Biest, Emiel Cracco et al.ARTICLEActa Psychologica2020

  • Depression, trauma and mentalizing

    Open AccessAnna R Hudson, Corinne Orlemann et al.ARTICLEInternational Journal of Social…2020

    BACKGROUND: Depressive symptoms are associated with impaired social functioning, arguably because of reduced mentalizing abilities. However, findings in persons with depressive symptoms and/or major depressive disorder (MDD) are presently mixed, finding evidence both for and against the hypothesis of reduced mentalizing abilities. AIMS: This study investigated spontaneous cognitive mentalizing in 36 age-, sex- and education-matched students with …

  • Free won’t” after a beer or two

    Open AccessYang Liu, Wery P M Van Den Wildenberg et al.ARTICLEBMC Psychology2020

    These findings suggest that both past-year increases in risky alcohol consumption and moderate acute alcohol use have limited effects on stimulus-driven inhibition and intentional inhibition. These conclusions cannot be generalized to alcohol use disorder and high intoxication levels. The RP might reflect processes involved in the formation of an intention in general

  • The impact of eye contact on the sense of agency

    Open AccessJosé Luis Ulloa, Roberta Vastano et al.ARTICLEConsciousness and Cognition2019

  • The hand of God or the hand of Maradona? Believing in free will increases perceived intentionality of others’ behavior

    Open AccessOliver Genschow, Davide Rigoni et al.ARTICLEConsciousness and Cognition2019

    The question of whether free will actually exists has been debated in philosophy for centuries. However, how belief in free will shapes the perception of our social environment still remains open. Here we investigate whether belief in free will affects how much intentionality we attribute to other people. Study 1a and 1b demonstrate a weak positive relation between the strength of belief in free will and the perceived intentionality of soccer pla…

  • Reaction time indices of automatic imitation measure imitative response tendencies

    Open AccessEmiel Cracco, Marcel Bra et al.ARTICLEConsciousness and Cognition2019