Error Processing

How do agents contain action slips and their consequences and how do they find their way back on track to successful action control? We investigate erroneous actions themselves and surrounding actions in the context of an error to deliver answer to these questions.

Exemplary Publications

Foerster, A., Rothermund, K., Parmar, J., Moeller, B., Frings, C. & Pfister, R. (2021). Goal-Based Binding of Irrelevant Stimulus Features for Action Slips. Experimental psychology68(4), 206–213.

https://doi.org/10.1027/1618-3169/a000525

Pfister, R. & Foerster, A. (2021). How to measure post-error slowing: The case of pre-error speeding. Behavior Research Methods54(1), 435–443.

https://doi.org/10.3758/s13428-021-01631-4

Foerster, A., Steinhauser, M., Schwarz, K. A., Kunde, W. & Pfister, R. (2022). Error cancellation. Royal Society Open Science9(3).

https://doi.org/10.1098/rsos.210397