Carina G Giesen
Biographic Data
| ID | 4600767 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Carina G Giesen |
| GIVEN NAMES | Carina G |
| FAMILY NAME | Giesen |
| SIGNATURE | GIESEN C G |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Erfurt |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-2395-4435 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 13 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 13 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Caught in the act: False on-task contingency beliefs reverse the color-word contingency learning effect
A key question in learning research concerns the role of awareness in human contingency learning. While a large portion of the contingency learning (CL) effect can be attributed to the episodic retrieval of previous SR bindings, a significant residual CL effect remains, which reflects the impact of global contingencies on behavior. In a high-powered (N = 168), pre-registered study, we implemented an on-task measure of awareness that prompted part…
The role of episodic retrieval in evaluative conditioning: Evaluative Conditioning Effects Differ Depending on the Temporal Distance to the Last Stimulus Pairing
Liking of a previously neutral stimulus can change based on co-occurrences with positive or negative stimuli, a phenomenon denoted evaluative conditioning (EC). Prior research suggests that EC depends on information about previous stimulus pairings that is remembered when the neutral stimulus is evaluated. According to recent findings from contingency learning, the temporal distance to the last occurrence of a given stimulus determines which info…
You have no power here! Social status does not modulate observationally acquired binding and retrieval effects
Previous research shows that observationally acquired stimulus-response binding and retrieval (oSRBR) effects only occur when the observed person is socially relevant. An important factor that influences one’s social relevance in everyday life is social status: People typically orient their behavior and attention towards others whom they perceive to be of higher social status than themselves. This implies that these persons are considered more re…
False contingency beliefs reverse contingency learning effects in the valence contingency learning task
In the valence contingency learning (VCL) task, participants evaluate target words which are preceded by nonwords, which are predictive for positive/negative evaluation responses. This produces robust contingency learning (CL) effects, reflected in faster and more accurate performance for highly contingent nonword-valence pairings. Previous findings indicate that controlling for episodic retrieval of transient stimulus-response episodes reduces C…
Stimulus-response binding and retrieval operates independently of contingency awareness: A mega-analysis
We analyzed data from four experiments to investigate the influence of contingency awareness on stimulus–response binding and retrieval. • Episodic binding and retrieval occur independently of and are not modulated by awareness of stimulus–response contingencies. • The results imply that stimulus–response binding and retrieval reflect the operation of unconscious automatic cognitive mechanisms. There is an ongoing debate about the role of top-dow…
Dissociating the roles of episodic retrieval and contingency awareness in valence contingency learning
). Both groups then worked through the VCT, an explicit rating task, and a contingency awareness test. Both groups showed contingency learning effects and EC effects for nonwords. Multi-level analyses showed that controlling for previous SR co-occurrences fully accounted for contingency learning effects in the incidental learning group. In the instructed learning group, a residual effect of genuine valence contingency learning remained. Nonword-s…
Cling together, swing together? Assessing indirect retrieval of stimulus-response bindings for associated stimuli
When a stimulus is paired with a response, a stimulus-response (SR) binding (or event file) is formed. Subsequent stimulus repetition retrieves the SR binding from memory, which facilitates (impedes) performance when the same (a different) response is required. We aimed to explore whether indirect retrieval of SR bindings by a newly learnt associated stimulus is possible. Participants first went through a learning task to acquire novel stimulus-s…
Context-specific adaptation for head fakes in basketball: A study on player-specific fake-frequency schedules
In basketball, an attacking player often plays a pass to one side while looking to the other side. This head fake provokes a conflict in the observing opponent, as the processing of the head orientation interferes with the processing of the pass direction. Accordingly, responses to passes with head fakes are slower and result in more errors than responses to passes without head fakes (head-fake effect). The head-fake effect and structurally simil…
Perception and action as viewed from the Theory of Event Coding: A multi-lab replication and effect size estimation of common experimental designs
The Theory of Event Coding (TEC) has influenced research on action and perception across the past two decades. It integrates several seminal empirical phenomena and it has continued to stimulate novel experimental approaches on the representational foundations of action control and perceptual experience. Yet, many of the most notable results surrounding TEC originate from an era of psychological research that relied on rather small sample sizes a…
Reluctance against the machine: Retrieval of observational stimulus–response episodes in online settings emerges when interacting with a human, but not with a computer partner
Observing how another person responds to a stimulus creates stimulus–response (SR) episodes. These can be retrieved from memory on later occasions, which means that observed responses are utilized for regulating one’s own actions. Until now, evidence for storage and retrieval of observationally acquired SR episodes was limited to dyadic face-to-face interactions between two partners who respond in an alternating fashion. In two preregistered stud…
Emotional arousal does not modulate stimulus-response binding and retrieval effects
The adaptation-by-binding account and the arousal-biased competition model suggest that emotional arousal increases binding effects for transient links between stimuli and responses. Two highly-powered, pre-registered experiments tested whether transient stimulus-response bindings are stronger for high versus low arousing stimuli. Emotional words were presented in a sequential prime-probe design in which stimulus relation, response relation, and …
Not so social after all: Video-based acquisition of observational stimulus-response bindings
Merely observing how another person responds to a stimulus results in incidental stimulus-response (SR) bindings in memory. These observationally acquired SR bindings can be retrieved on a later occasion. Retrieval will bias current behavioral response tendencies towards re-execution of the observed response. Previous demonstrations of this effect endorsed a dyadic interaction paradigm in which two co-actors respond in alternating fashion. The pr…
Binding and Retrieval in Action Control (BRAC)
Human action control relies on representations that integrate perception and action, but the relevant research is scattered over various experimental paradigms and the theorizing is overly paradigm-specific. To overcome this obstacle we propose BRAC (binding and retrieval in action control), an overarching, integrative framework that accounts for a wide range of seemingly unrelated findings by assuming 'two core processes: feature binding and ret…
Dissociating the roles of episodic retrieval and contingency awareness in valence contingency learning
). Both groups then worked through the VCT, an explicit rating task, and a contingency awareness test. Both groups showed contingency learning effects and EC effects for nonwords. Multi-level analyses showed that controlling for previous SR co-occurrences fully accounted for contingency learning effects in the incidental learning group. In the instructed learning group, a residual effect of genuine valence contingency learning remained. Nonword-s…
Binding and Retrieval in Action Control (BRAC)
Human action control relies on representations that integrate perception and action, but the relevant research is scattered over various experimental paradigms and the theorizing is overly paradigm-specific. To overcome this obstacle we propose BRAC (binding and retrieval in action control), an overarching, integrative framework that accounts for a wide range of seemingly unrelated findings by assuming 'two core processes: feature binding and ret…
Not so social after all: Video-based acquisition of observational stimulus-response bindings
Merely observing how another person responds to a stimulus results in incidental stimulus-response (SR) bindings in memory. These observationally acquired SR bindings can be retrieved on a later occasion. Retrieval will bias current behavioral response tendencies towards re-execution of the observed response. Previous demonstrations of this effect endorsed a dyadic interaction paradigm in which two co-actors respond in alternating fashion. The pr…
Reluctance against the machine: Retrieval of observational stimulus–response episodes in online settings emerges when interacting with a human, but not with a computer partner
Observing how another person responds to a stimulus creates stimulus–response (SR) episodes. These can be retrieved from memory on later occasions, which means that observed responses are utilized for regulating one’s own actions. Until now, evidence for storage and retrieval of observationally acquired SR episodes was limited to dyadic face-to-face interactions between two partners who respond in an alternating fashion. In two preregistered stud…
Emotional arousal does not modulate stimulus-response binding and retrieval effects
The adaptation-by-binding account and the arousal-biased competition model suggest that emotional arousal increases binding effects for transient links between stimuli and responses. Two highly-powered, pre-registered experiments tested whether transient stimulus-response bindings are stronger for high versus low arousing stimuli. Emotional words were presented in a sequential prime-probe design in which stimulus relation, response relation, and …
Perception and action as viewed from the Theory of Event Coding: A multi-lab replication and effect size estimation of common experimental designs
The Theory of Event Coding (TEC) has influenced research on action and perception across the past two decades. It integrates several seminal empirical phenomena and it has continued to stimulate novel experimental approaches on the representational foundations of action control and perceptual experience. Yet, many of the most notable results surrounding TEC originate from an era of psychological research that relied on rather small sample sizes a…
Cling together, swing together? Assessing indirect retrieval of stimulus-response bindings for associated stimuli
When a stimulus is paired with a response, a stimulus-response (SR) binding (or event file) is formed. Subsequent stimulus repetition retrieves the SR binding from memory, which facilitates (impedes) performance when the same (a different) response is required. We aimed to explore whether indirect retrieval of SR bindings by a newly learnt associated stimulus is possible. Participants first went through a learning task to acquire novel stimulus-s…
Context-specific adaptation for head fakes in basketball: A study on player-specific fake-frequency schedules
In basketball, an attacking player often plays a pass to one side while looking to the other side. This head fake provokes a conflict in the observing opponent, as the processing of the head orientation interferes with the processing of the pass direction. Accordingly, responses to passes with head fakes are slower and result in more errors than responses to passes without head fakes (head-fake effect). The head-fake effect and structurally simil…
You have no power here! Social status does not modulate observationally acquired binding and retrieval effects
Previous research shows that observationally acquired stimulus-response binding and retrieval (oSRBR) effects only occur when the observed person is socially relevant. An important factor that influences one’s social relevance in everyday life is social status: People typically orient their behavior and attention towards others whom they perceive to be of higher social status than themselves. This implies that these persons are considered more re…
False contingency beliefs reverse contingency learning effects in the valence contingency learning task
In the valence contingency learning (VCL) task, participants evaluate target words which are preceded by nonwords, which are predictive for positive/negative evaluation responses. This produces robust contingency learning (CL) effects, reflected in faster and more accurate performance for highly contingent nonword-valence pairings. Previous findings indicate that controlling for episodic retrieval of transient stimulus-response episodes reduces C…
Stimulus-response binding and retrieval operates independently of contingency awareness: A mega-analysis
We analyzed data from four experiments to investigate the influence of contingency awareness on stimulus–response binding and retrieval. • Episodic binding and retrieval occur independently of and are not modulated by awareness of stimulus–response contingencies. • The results imply that stimulus–response binding and retrieval reflect the operation of unconscious automatic cognitive mechanisms. There is an ongoing debate about the role of top-dow…
Dissociating the roles of episodic retrieval and contingency awareness in valence contingency learning
). Both groups then worked through the VCT, an explicit rating task, and a contingency awareness test. Both groups showed contingency learning effects and EC effects for nonwords. Multi-level analyses showed that controlling for previous SR co-occurrences fully accounted for contingency learning effects in the incidental learning group. In the instructed learning group, a residual effect of genuine valence contingency learning remained. Nonword-s…
Caught in the act: False on-task contingency beliefs reverse the color-word contingency learning effect
A key question in learning research concerns the role of awareness in human contingency learning. While a large portion of the contingency learning (CL) effect can be attributed to the episodic retrieval of previous SR bindings, a significant residual CL effect remains, which reflects the impact of global contingencies on behavior. In a high-powered (N = 168), pre-registered study, we implemented an on-task measure of awareness that prompted part…
The role of episodic retrieval in evaluative conditioning: Evaluative Conditioning Effects Differ Depending on the Temporal Distance to the Last Stimulus Pairing
Liking of a previously neutral stimulus can change based on co-occurrences with positive or negative stimuli, a phenomenon denoted evaluative conditioning (EC). Prior research suggests that EC depends on information about previous stimulus pairings that is remembered when the neutral stimulus is evaluated. According to recent findings from contingency learning, the temporal distance to the last occurrence of a given stimulus determines which info…
Cognitive psychology (9 works) · Psychology (9 works) · Neural and Behavioral Psychology Studies (8 works) · Action Observation and Synchronization (7 works) · Contingency (5 works) · Neuroscience (5 works) · Communication (4 works) · Memory and Neural Mechanisms (4 works) · Memory Processes and Influences (4 works) · Computer Science (3 works)