Papers

in press - 2007

*Harbaugh, B.T., *Mayr, U., & Burghart, D. (2007). Neural responses to taxation and voluntary giving reveal motives for charitable donations. Science, 316, 1622-1655. Full text here.

Bryck, R.L., & Mayr, U. (in press). Task selection cost asymmetry without task switching. Psychological Bulletin and Review. PDF

2006

Mayr, U. (2006). What matters in the cued task-switching paradigm: Tasks or cues? Psychonomic Bulletin and Review, 5, 794-799. PDF

*Spieler, D., *Mayr, U., & LaGrone, S. (2006). Outsourcing cognitive control to the environment: Adult-age differences in the use of task cues. Psychonomic Bulletin and Review, 5, 787-793. PDF

Mayr, U. (in press). Inhibition of task sets. In D.S. Gorfein & C.M. MacLeod (Eds.). Inhibition in Cognition. APA Books: Washington DC. PDF

Mayr, U., & Bell, T. (2006). On how to be unpredictable: Evidence from the voluntary task-switching paradigm. Psychological Science , 17, 774-780. PDF

Mayr, U., & Bryck, R.L. (2006). Outsourcing Control to the Environment: Effects of Stimulus/Response Locations on Task Selection. Psychological Research, 71, 107-116. PDF

Mayr, U., Diedrichsen, J., Ivry, R., & Keele, S. (2006). Dissociating task-set selection from task-set inhibition in prefrontal cortex. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience , 18, 14-21. PDF

2005

Bryck, R.L. & Mayr, U. (2005). Does executive task management require verbalization? Memory & Cognition, 33, 11-23. PDF

Deater-Deckard, K. & Mayr, U. (2005). Cognitive change in aging: identifying gene-environment correlation and nonshared environmental mechanisms. Journals of Gerontology: Social Sciences, 60, 24-31.

Foroni, F. & Mayr, U. (2005). The power of a story: New, automatic associations from a single reading of a short scenario. Psychonomic Bulletin and Review, 12, 139-144. PDF

Krampe, R. T., Mayr, U., & Kliegl, R. (2005). Timing, sequencing, and executive control in repetitive movement production. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 31, 379-397. PDF

Mayr, U., & Bryck, R.L. (2005). Sticky rules: Integration between abstract rules and specific actions. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 31, 337-350. PDF

2004

Mayr. U. (2004). Consciousness and control. Trends in Cognitive Science. 8, 145-148.

2003

Keele, S., Ivry, R., Mayr, U., Hazeltine, E., & Heuer, H. (2003). The cognitive and neural architecture of sequence representation. Psychological Review, 110, 316-339. PDF

Mayr. U. & Kliegl, R. (2003). Differential effects of cue changes and task changes on task-set selection costs. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 29, 362-372. PDF

Mayr, U., Awh, E., & Laurey, P. (2003). Does conflict adaptation require executive control? Nature Neuroscience, 6, 450-452. PDF

2002

Mayr, U. (2002). Inhibition of action rules. Psychonomic Bulletin and Review, 9, 93-99. PDF

2001

Mayr, U. (2001). Age differences in the selection of mental sets: The role of inhibition, stimulus ambiguity, and response-set overlap. Psychology and Aging, 16, 96-109. PDF

Mayr, U. & Liebscher, T. (2001). Is there an age deficit in the selection of mental sets? European Journal of Cognitive Psychology, 13, 47-69.

Mayr, U., Spieler, D., & Kliegl, R. (2001). Ageing and executive control: Introduction to the special issue. European Journal of Cognitive Psychology, 13, 1-4.

Oberauer K., Demmrich A., Mayr U., & Kliegl, R. (2001). Dissociating retention and access in working memory: An age-comparative study of mental arithmetic. Memory and Cognition, 29, 18-33.

2000

Helmuth, L., Mayr, U., & Daum, I. (2000). Sequence learning in patients with Parkinson's disease: A comparison between spatial-attention and number-response sequences. Neuropsychologia, 38, 1143-1451.

Krampe, R. T., Kliegl, R., Mayr, U., Engberg, R., & Vorberg, D. (2000) On the fast and slow of bimanual rhythm production: Parallel vs. integrated timing. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 26, 206-233. PDF

Mayr, U., & Keele, S. (2000). Changing internal constraints on action: The role of backward inhibition. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 129, 4-26. PDF

Mayr, U. & Kliegl, R. (2000). Task-set switching and long-term memory retrieval. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 26, 1124-1140. PDF

Mayr, U., & Kliegl, R. (2000). Complex semantic processing in old age: Does it stay or does it go? Psychology and Aging, 15, 29-34. PDF

before 2000

Verhaeghen, P., Kliegl, R., & Mayr, U. (1997). Sequential and coordinative complexity in time-accuracy functions for mental arithmetic. Psychology and Aging, 12, 555-564.

Mayr, U. (1996). Spatial attention and implicit sequence learning: Evidence for independent learning of spatial and nonspatial sequences. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 19, 1297-1320.

Mayr, U., Kliegl, R., & Krampe, R. T. (1996). Sequential and coordinative processing dynamics across the life span. Cognition, 59, 61-90.

Kliegl, R., Mayr, U., & Krampe, R. T. (1994). Time-accuracy functions for the determination of person and process differences: An application to cognitive aging. Cognitive Psychology, 26, 134-164.

Baltes, M., Mayr, U., Borchelt, M., Maas, I., & Wilms, U. (1994). Everyday competence in old and very old age: An interdisciplinary perspective. Ageing and Society, 13, 657-679.

Mayr, U., & Kliegl, R. (1993). Sequential and coordinative complexity: Age-based processing limitations in figural transformations. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 19, 1297-1320.

Lindenberger, U., Mayr, U., & Kliegl, R. (1993). Speed and intelligence in old age. Psychology and Aging, 8, 207-220.

Kliegl, R., & Mayr, U. (1992). Commentary on Salthouse. Human Development, 35, 343-349.

* Joint first authorship.