Cognitive control covers a broad range of cognitive functions, but its research and theories
typically remain tied to a single domain. Here we outline and review an associative learning …

Here we review studies on the complexity and strength of unconscious information
processing. We focus on empirical evidence that relates awareness of information to …

Human beings have an astonishing ability to carry out and control complex behavior, and,
moreover, they seem to do so without much effort and conscious awareness about the …

According to the processing-fluency explanation of aesthetics, more fluently processed
stimuli are preferred (R. Reber, N. Schwarz, & P. Winkielman, 2004, Processing fluency and …

Despite its importance in everyday life, the computational nature of effort investment remains
poorly understood. We propose an effort model obtained from optimality considerations, and …

In our ASSC20 symposium,“Does unconscious perception really exist?”, the four of us asked
some difficult questions about the purported phenomenon of unconscious perception …

In the study reported here, we examined the role of conflict experience in cognitive
adaptation to conflict. Although the experience of conflict is generally neglected in …

Unconscious priming is a prototypical example of an automatic process, which is initiated
without deliberate intention. Classical theories of automaticity assume that such …

In conflict tasks, congruency effects are modulated by the sequence of preceding trials. This
modulation effect has been interpreted as an influence of a proactive mechanism of …

Most contemporary theorists regard the traditional thesis that perception is essentially
conscious as just another armchair edict to be abandoned in the wake of empirical …