Publications

2024

Hübner, R., & Ufken, E. S. (2024). Curviness is a better predictor of a woman’s body attractiveness than the waist-to-hip ratio. Scientific Reports, 14(1), 23081. <Open Access>.

Mutter, Y., & Hübner, R. (2024). The effect of expertise on the creation and evaluation of visual compositions in terms of creativity and beauty. Scientific Reports, 14(1), 13675. <Open Access>.

Thömmes, K., Hübner, R., & Hayn-Leichsenring, G. U. (2024). Is there a timeless truth for good arrangement of paintings in art galleries and museums? An experimental investigation of the Barnes Collection. Empirical Studies of the Arts, 0(0).<Open Access>

Hübner, R. (2024). Golden spiral or Fibonacci spiral: Which is more beautiful and why? i-Perception, 15(2).<Open Access>

2023

Hübner, R., & Ufken, E. S. (2023). On the beauty of vases: Birkhoff’s aesthetic measure versus Hogarth’s line of beauty. Frontiers in Psychology, 14.<Open Access>

Hübner, R., Lewis, D. M. G., Al-Shawaf, L., Semchenko, A. Y., & Flores, J. (2023). Evidence that the aesthetic preference for Hogarth’s Line of Beauty is an evolutionary by-product. Scientific Reports, 13(1), 4134. <Open Access>.

Walle, A., Druey, M. D., & Hübner, R. (2023). Learned cognitive control counteracts value-driven attentional capture. Psychological Research, 87, 2048-2067. <doi>

Miller, C. A., & Hübner, R. (2023). The relations of empathy and gender to aesthetic response and aesthetic inference of visual artworks. Empirical Studies of the Arts. 41(1), 188-215. <doi>

2022

Hübner, R. (2022). Position biases in sequential location selection: Effects of region, choice history, and visibility of previous selections. PloS one, 17(10), e0276207. <Open Access>.

Hübner, R., & Ufken, E. S. (2022). Is Hogarth’s (1753) ‘line of beauty’ really the most beautiful? An empirical answer after more than 250 years. i-Perception, 13(2).<Open Access>

2021

Hübner, R., Druey, M. D., Pelzer, T., & Walle, A. (2021). On the difficulty of overcoming one's accuracy bias for choosing an optimal speed-accuracy tradeoff. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance. 47(12), 1604-1620. <doi> <pdf>

Walle, A., Hübner, R., & Druey, M. D. (2021). Value associations modulate visual attention and response selection. Frontiers in Psychology, 12(1467). <Open Access>

Walle, A., & Druey, M. D. (2021). Beyond looking for the rewarded target: The effects of reward on attention in search tasks. Frontiers in Psychology, 12(279). <Open Access>

2020

Thömmes, K., & Hübner, R. (2020). Why people press "Like": A new measure for aesthetic appeal derived from Instagram data. Psychology of Aesthetics, Creativity, and the Arts. <doi> <pdf>

Fillinger, M. G., & Hübner, R. (2020). On the relation between perceived stability and aesthetic appreciation. Acta Psychologica, 208, 103082. <doi> <pdf>

Miller, C. A., & Hübner, R. (2020). Two routes to aesthetic preference, one route to aesthetic inference. Psychology of Aesthetics, Creativity, and the Arts. 14(2), 237-249. <doi> <pdf>

Haffke, P., & Hübner, R. (2020). Are choices based on conditional or conjunctive probabilities in a sequential risk-taking task? Journal of Behavioral Decision Making, 33, 333-347. <Open Access>

Fillinger, M. G., & Hübner, R. (2020). The relations between balance, prototypicality, and aesthetic appreciation for Japanese calligraphy. Empirical Studies of the Arts, 8(2), 172-190. <doi><pdf>

Hübner, R., & Pelzer, T. (2020). Improving parameter recovery for conflict drift-diffusion models. Behavior Research Methods. <Open Access>

Florack, A., Egger, M., & Hübner, R. (2020). When products compete for consumer attention: How selective attention affects preferences. Journal of Business Research, 111, 117-127. <Open Access>

2019

Hübner, R., & Thömmes, K. (2019). Symmetry and balance as factors of aesthetic appreciation: Ethel Puffer’s (1903) “Studies in Symmetry” revised. Symmetry 11(12), 1468. <Open Access>

Makarina, N., Hübner, R., & Florack, A. (2019). Increased preference and value of consumer products by attentional selection. Frontiers in Psychology, 10(2086). <Open Access>

Hübner, R., & Fillinger, M. G. (2019). Perceptual balance, stability, and aesthetic appreciation: Their relations depend on the picture type. i-Perception, 10(3), 1-17. <Open Access>

Hübner, R., & Töbel, L. (2019). Conflict resolution in the Eriksen flanker task: Similarities and differences to the Simon task. PloS one, 14(3), e0214203. <Open Access>

2018

Elschner, S., Hübner, R., & Dambacher, M. (2018). Do fluency-induced pupillary responses reflect aesthetic affect? Psychology of Aesthetics, Creativity, and the Arts, 12(3). <pdf>

Thömmes, K., & Hübner, R. (2018). Instagram likes for architectural photos can be predicted by quantitative balance measures and curvature. Frontiers in Psychology, 9. <Open Access>

2017

Dummel, S., & Hübner, R. (2017). Too tasty to be ignored: How individual food preferences affect selective attention. Experimental Psychology, 64, 338-345.<pdf>

2016

Dambacher, M., Haffke, P., Groß, D., & Hübner, R. (2016). Graphs versus numbers: How information format affects risk aversion in gambling. Judgment and Decision Making, 11 (3), 223-242. <pdf>

Hübner, R., & Fillinger, M. G. (2016). Comparison of objective measures for predicting perceptual balance and visual aesthetic preference. Frontiers in Psychology, 7. <Open Access>

Hübner, R., & Mishra, S. (2016). Location-specific attentional control is also possible in the Simon task. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, 23, 1867-1872. <pdf>

2015

Dambacher, M., & Hübner, R. (2015). Time pressure affects the efficiency of perceptual processing in decisions under conflict. Psychological Research, 79, 83-94. <pdf>

Haffke, P., & Hübner, R. (2015).Effects of different feedback types on information integration in repeated monetary gambles. Frontiers in Psychology, 5. <Open Access>

2014

Hübner, R. (2014). Does attentional selectivity in global/local processing improve discretely or gradually? Frontiers in Psychology, 5. <Open Access>

Thömmes, K., & Hübner, R. (2014). A picuture is worth a word: The effect of titles on aesthetic judgments. In A. Kotzbelt (Ed.), Twenty-third Biennial Congress of the International Association of Empirical Aesthetics (pp. 599-603). New York. <pdf>

Töbel, L, Hübner, R., & Stürmer, B. (2014). Suppression of irrelevant activation in the horizontal and vertical Simon task differs quantitatively not qualitatively. Acta Psychologica, 152, 47-55. <pdf>

2013

Dambacher, M., & Hübner, R. (2013). Investigating the speed-accuracy tradeoff: Better use deadlines or response signals? Behavior Research Methods, 45, 702-717. <pdf>

Grzyb, K.R., & Hübner, R. (2013). Strategic modulation of response inhibition in task-switching. Frontiers in Psychology, 4. <Open Access>

Grzyb, K.R., & Hübner, R. (2013). Response inhibition modulates response conflict in task switching. Zeitschrift für Psychologie, 221, 33-40. <pdf>

Grzyb, K.R., & Hübner, R. (2013). Excessive response-repetition costs under task switching: How response inhibition amplifies response conflict. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 39, 126-139. <pdf>

Heikamp T., Trommsdorff G., Druey M.D., Hübner R. & von Suchodoletz A. (2013). Kindergarten children’s attachment security, inhibitory control, and the internalization of rules of conduct. Frontiers in Psychology, 4. <Open Access>.

Hübner, R., & Mishra, S. (2013). Evidence for strategic suppression of irrelevant activation in the Simon task. Acta Psychologica, 144, 166-172. <pdf>

Martens, U. & Hübner, R. (2013). Functional hemispheric asymmetries of global/local processing mirrored by the steady-state visual evoked potential. Brain and Cognition, 81, 161-166. <pdf>

2012

Grzyb, K.R. & Hübner, R. (2012). Response-repetition costs in task switching: How they are modulated by previous-trial response-category activation, Acta Psychologica, 139, 97-103. <pdf>

Hübner R., & Töbel L. (2012) Does attentional selectivity in the flanker task improve discretely or gradually? Frontiers in Psychology, 3. <doi>

Kruse, R. & Hübner, R. (2012). The cerebral hemispheres differ in their capacity for content-to-level binding but not for identification: Evidence from conjunction errors obtained with bilateral hierarchical stimuli. Laterality, 17, 615-628. <pdf>

2011

Dambacher, M., Hübner, R., & Schlösser, J. (2011). Monetary incentives in speeded perceptual decision: Effects of penalizing errors versus slow responses. Frontiers in Psychology, 2. <doi>

Hübner, R. & Kruse, R. (2011). Effects of stimulus type and level repetition on content-level binding in global/local processing. Frontiers in Psychology, 2. <Open Access>.

Maier, M. E., Yeung, N., & Steinhauser, M. (2011). Error-related brain activity and adjustments of selective attention following errors. Neuroimage, 56, 2339-2347.

Steinhauser, M. & Kiesel, A. (2011). Performance monitoring and the causal attribution of errors. Cognitive, Affective, & Behavioral Neuroscience, 3, 309-320.

2010

Hübner, R., & Schlösser, J. (2010). Monetary reward increases attentional effort in the flanker task. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, 17, 821-826. <pdf>

Hübner, R., Steinhauser, M. & Lehle, C. (2010). A dual-stage two-phase model of selective attention. Psychological Review, 117, 759-784. <pdf>

Kiesel, A., Steinhauser, M., Wendt, M., Falkenstein, M., Jost, K., Philipp, A.M., & Koch, I. (2010). Control and interference in task switching - A review. Psychological Bulletin, 136, 849-874.

Maier, M., Steinhauser, M., & Hübner, R. (2010). Effects of response set size on error-related brain activity, Experimental Brain Research, 202, 571–581. <pdf>

Steinhauser, M. (2010). How to correct a task error: Task-switch effects following different types of error correction. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 36, 1028-1035.

Steinhauser, M. & Yeung, N. (2010). Decision processes in human performance monitoring.Journal of Neuroscience, 30, 15643-15653.

2009

Danielmeier, C., Wessel, J., Steinhauser, M., & Ullsperger, M. (2009). Modulation of the error-related negativity by response conflict. Psychophysiology, 46, 1288-1298.

Hübner, R. & Studer, T. (2009).Functional hemispheric differences for the categorization of global and local information in naturalistic stimuli. Brain and Cognition, 69, 11-18. <pdf>

Lehle, C. & Hübner, R. (2009). Strategic capacity sharing between two tasks: evidence from tasks with the the same and different task sets. Psychological Research, 73, 707-726. <pdf>

Lehle, C., Steinhauser, M. & Hübner, R. (2009). Serial or parallel processing in dual tasks: What is more effortful? Psychophysiology, 46, 502-509. <pdf>

Schlösser, J., Hübner, R., & Studer, T. (2009). The effect of element spacing on hemispheric asymmetries for global/local processing. Experimental Psychology, 56, 321-328. <pdf>

Steinhauser, M., & Hübner, R.(2009). Distinguishing response conflict and task conflict in the Stroop task: Evidence from ex-Gaussian distribution analysis. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 35, 1398-1412. <pdf>

Steinhauser, M., Hübner, R., & Druey, M. (2009). Adaptive control of response preparedness in task switching. Neuropsychologia, 47, 1826-1835. <pdf>

2008

Druey, M. & Hübner, R., (2008). Effects of stimulus features and instruction on response coding, selection, and inhibition: Evidence from repetition effects under task switching. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 61, 1573–1600. <pdf>

Druey, M. & Hübner, R., (2008). Response inhibition under task switching: its strength depends on the amount of task-irrelevant response activation. Psychological Research, 72, 515-527. <pdf>

Hübner, R., & Druey, M. (2008). Multiple response codes play specific roles in response selection and inhibition under task switching. Psychological Research, 72, 415-424. <pdf>

Lehle, C. & Hübner, R. (2008). On-the-fly adaptation of selectivity in the flanker task. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, 15, 814-818. <pdf>

Maier, M., Steinhauser, M., & Hübner, R. (2008). Is the ERN amplitude related to error detectability? Evidence from effects of different error types. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 20, 2263–2273. <pdf>

Steinhauser, M., & Hübner, R. (2008). How task errors affect subsequent behavior: Evidence from distributional analyses of task-shifting effects. Memory & Cognition, 36, 979-990. <pdf>

Steinhauser, M. Maier, M. & Hübner, R. (2008). Modeling behavioral measures of error detection in choice tasks: Response monitoring versus conflict monitoring. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 34, 158-176. <pdf>

Studer, T. & Hübner, R. (2008). The direction of hemispheric asymmetries for object categorization at different levels of abstraction depends on the task. Brain and Cognition, 67, 197-211. <pdf>

2007

Druey, M., & Hübner, R. (2007). The role of temporal cue-target overlap in backward inhibition under task switching. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, 14, 749-754. <pdf>

Hübner, R., & Lehle, C. (2007). Strategies of flanker co-processing in single and dual tasks. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 33, 103-123. <pdf>

Hübner, R., Volberg, G., & Studer, T. (2007). Hemispheric differences for global/local processing in divided attention tasks: Further evidence for the integration theory. Perception & Psychophysics, 69, 413-421. <pdf>

Steinhauser, M. Maier, M. & Hübner, R. (2007). Cognitive Control under Stress: How stress affects strategies of task-set configuration. Psychological Science, 18, 540-545. <pdf>

Steinhauser, M., & Hübner, R. (2007). Automatic activation of task-relevant representations in task-shifting. Memory & Cognition, 35, 138-155. <pdf>

Volberg, G., & Hübner, R. (2007). Deconfounding the effects of congruency and task difficulty on hemispheric differences in global/local processing. Experimental Psychology, 54, 83-88. <pdf>

Volberg, G., & Hübner, R. (2007). Do the hemispheres differ in their preparation for global/local processing? Experimental Brain Research, 176, 525-531. <pdf>

2006

Hübner, R., & Druey, M. (2006). Response execution, selection, or activation: What is sufficient for response-related repetition effects under task shifting? Psychological Research, 70, 245-261. <pdf>

Steinhauser, M. & Hübner, R. (2006). Response-based strengthening in task-shifting: Evidence from shift effects produced by errors. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 32, 517-534. <pdf>

Volberg, G., & Hübner, R. (2006). Hemispheric differences for the integration of stimulus levels and their contents: Evidence from bilateral presentations. Perception & Psychophysics, 68, 1274–1285. <pdf>

2000-2005

Hübner, R., & Volberg, G. (2005). The integration of object levels and their content: A theory of global/local processing and related hemispheric differences. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 31, 520-541. <pdf>

Steinhauser, M., & Hübner, R. (2005). Mixing costs in task-shifting reflect sequential processing stages in a multicomponent task. Memory & Cognition, 33, 1484-1494. <pdf>

Volberg, G., & Hübner, R. (2004). On the role of response conflicts and stimulus position for hemispheric differences in global/local processing: An ERP study. Neuropsychologia, 42, 1805-1813. <pdf>

Hübner, R. & Malinowski, P., (2002). The effect of response competition on functional hemispheric asymmetries for global/local processing. Perception & Psychophysics, 64, 1290-1300. <pdf>

Malinowski, P., Hübner, R., Keil, A., & Gruber, T. (2002). The influence of response competition on cerebral asymmetries for processing hierarchical stimuli revealed by ERP recordings. Experimental Brain Research,144, 136-139. <pdf>

Müller, M.M. & Hübner, R. (2002). Can the spotlight of attention be shaped like a ring? Evidence from steady-state visual evoked potentials (SSVEPs). Psychological Science, 13, 119-124. <pdf>

Hübner, R. (2001). A formal version of the Guided-Search (GS2) model. Perception & Psychophysics, 63, 945-951. <pdf>

Hübner, R. & Malinowski, P. (2001). How to produce an absent-advantage in visual search. Perception & Psychophysics, 63, 258-271. <pdf>

Hübner, R., Futterer, T., & Steinhauser, M. (2001). On attentional control as source of residual shift costs: Evidence from two-component task shifts. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 27, 640-653. <pdf>

Malinowski, P. & Hübner, R. (2001). The effect of familiarity on visual-search performance: Evidence for learned basic features. Perception & Psychophysics, 63, 458-463. <pdf>

Hübner, R. (2000). Attention shifting between global and local target levels: The persistence of level-repetition effects. Visual Cognition, 7, 456-484. <pdf>

1990-1999

Hübner, R. & Backer, G. (1999). Perceiving spatially inseparable objects: Evidence for feature-based object selection not mediated by location. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception & Performance, 25, 1556–1567. <pdf>

Hübner, R. (1998). Hemispheric differences in local-global processing revealed by same-different judgments. Visual Cognition, 5, 457-478. <pdf>

Hübner, R. (1997). The effect of spatial frequency on global precedence and hemispheric differences. Perception & Psychophysics, 59, 187-201. <pdf>

Hübner, R. (1997). "Visuelle Welt": A Windows program for demonstrating visual-perception phenomena. Spatial Vision, 11, 103-106. <pdf>

Hübner, R. (1996). Specific effects of spatial frequency uncertainty and different cue types on contrast detection: Data and models. Vision Research, 36, 3429-3439. <pdf>

Hübner, R. (1996). The efficiency of different cue types for reducing spatial-frequency uncertainty. Vision Research, 36, 401-408. <pdf>

Hübner, R. (1996). VIAT: A Windows program for demonstrating visual-attention effects. Behavioral Research Methods, Instruments, & Computers, 28, 486-486. <pdf>

Hübner, R. (1995). Visuelle Welt: Ein optisches Kabinett. Heidelberg: Spektrum der Wissenschaft.

Hübner, R. & Hafter, E.R. (1995).Cuing mechanisms in auditory signal detection. Perception & Psychophysics, 57, 197-202. <pdf>

Hübner, R. (1993). On possible models of attention in signal detection. Journal of Mathematical Psychology, 37, 266-281. <pdf>

Hübner, R. (1993). Different ways of modeling spatial-frequency uncertainty in visual signal detection. Biological Cybernetics, 69, 457-462. <pdf>

Hübner, R. & Ellermeier, W. (1993). Additivity of loudness across critical bands: A critical test. Perception & Psychophysics, 54, 185-189. <pdf>

Hübner, R. & Suck, R. (1993). Algebraic representation of additive structures with an infinite number of components. Journal of Mathematical Psychology, 37, 629-639. <pdf>

Hübner, R. (1991). Is there an auditory analogue to Fechner's paradox in binaural loudness perception? Archiv für Psychologie, 142(3), 157-165. <pdf>

Before 1990

Hübner, R. (1989). Ein dynamisches Modell der Lautheitsadaptation [A dynamic model of loudness adaptation]. Zeitschrift für Psychologie, 197(1), 97-107. <pdf>

Hübner, R. (1989). Methoden zur Analyse und Konstruktion von Aufgaben zur kognitiven Steuerung dynamischer Systeme. Zeitschrift für experimentelle und angewandte Psychologie, 36(2), 221-238. <pdf>

Hübner, R. (1989). Repräsentation dynamischer Strukturen durch lineare Systeme. Zeitschrift für experimentelle und angewandte Psychologie, 36(1), 57-71. <pdf>

Hübner, R. (1988). Die kognitive Regelung dynamischer Systeme und der EinfluB analoger versus digitaler Informationsdarbietung [Cognitive regulation of dynamic systems and the influence of analogue versus digital presentation of information]. Zeitschrift für Psychologie, 196, 161-170. <pdf>

Hübner, R. (1987). Eine naheliegende Fehleinschätzung des Zielabstandes bei der zeitoptimalen Regelung dynamischer Systeme. Zeitschrift für experimentelle und angewandte Psychologie, 34(1), 38-53. <pdf>

Hübner, R. (1985). Simulierte kritische Werte zur Kausal-Dominanz-Analyse [Simulated critical values for the Causal-Dominance-Analysis]. Psychologische Beitrage, 27, 224-230. <pdf>

Hübner, R., & Hager, W. (1984). Sind nonparametrische Tests parametrischen bei" beliebigen Verteilungen" vorzuziehen? [Should non-parametric tests be preferred to parametric ones for any distributions?] Zeitschrift für experimentelle und angewandte Psychologie, 31(2), 214-231. <pdf>

Hager, W., Lübbeke, B., & Hübner, R. (1983). Verletzung der Annahmen bei Zwei-Stichproben-Lokationstests: Eine Übersicht über empirische Resultate [Violations of the assumptions of two-sample location tests: An overview of empirical results]. Zeitschrift für experimentelle und angewandte Psychologie, 30, 347-386. <pdf>