Conflict monitoring and the affective-signaling hypothesis—An integrative review

D Dignath, AB Eder, M Steinhauser, A Kiesel - Psychonomic Bulletin & …, 2020 - Springer
Conflict-monitoring theory proposes that conflict between incompatible responses is
registered by a dedicated monitoring system, and that this conflict signal triggers changes of …

Understanding all inconsistency compensation as a palliative response to violated expectations

T Proulx, M Inzlicht, E Harmon-Jones - Trends in cognitive sciences, 2012 - cell.com
It has been repeatedly shown that, when people have experiences that are inconsistent with
their expectations, they engage in a variety of compensatory efforts. Although there have …

Homing in on consciousness in the nervous system: An action-based synthesis

E Morsella, CA Godwin, TK Jantz… - Behavioral and Brain …, 2016 - cambridge.org
What is the primary function of consciousness in the nervous system? The answer to this
question remains enigmatic, not so much because of a lack of relevant data, but because of …

Subjective aspects of cognitive control at different stages of processing

E Morsella, LE Wilson, CC Berger… - Attention, Perception, & …, 2009 - Springer
Although research on cognitive control has addressed the effects that different forms of
cognitive interference have on behavior and the activities of certain brain regions, until …

Motor cognition: The role of sentience in perception and action

E Morsella, AG Velasquez… - Kinesiology …, 2020 - journals.humankinetics.com
The function of the conscious field remains mysterious from a scientific point of view. This
article reviews theoretical approaches (passive frame theory and ideomotor approaches) …

The olfactory system as the gateway to the neural correlates of consciousness

C Merrick, CA Godwin, MW Geisler… - Frontiers in …, 2014 - frontiersin.org
How consciousness is generated by the nervous system remains one of the greatest
mysteries in science. Investigators from diverse fields have begun to unravel this puzzle by …

When conflicts are good: nonconscious goal conflicts reduce confirmatory thinking.

T Kleiman, RR Hassin - Journal of Personality and Social …, 2013 - psycnet.apa.org
In this article, we argue that nonconscious goal conflicts are accompanied by a mindset that
has wide-ranging implications for reasoning and thinking in content areas that are not part of …

The inevitable contrast: Conscious vs. unconscious processes in action control

E Morsella, TA Poehlman - Frontiers in Psychology, 2013 - frontiersin.org
The simple actions of everyday life—flicking a light switch, suppressing the urge to say
something, or grabbing a waiter's attention with a “check, please”—remain difficult to …

The prospective nature of voluntary action: Insights from the reflexive imagery task

S Bhangal, H Cho, MW Geisler… - Review of General …, 2016 - journals.sagepub.com
Voluntary action is peculiar in several ways. For example, it is highly prospective in nature,
requiring the activation of the representations of anticipated action-effects (eg, a button …

Cognitive and neural components of the phenomenology of agency

E Morsella, CC Berger, SC Krieger - Neurocase, 2011 - Taylor & Francis
A primary aspect of the self is the sense of agency–the sense that one is causing an action.
In the spirit of recent reductionistic approaches to other complex, multifaceted phenomena …