Syllabus: IS van der Wel lab syllabus, Spring 2026

 

Sense of Agency:

Current Project:

CogSci submission 2024, April 24, 2024 revision

Lines, Tones, and the Category Adjustment Model:

Huttenlocher Hedges and Vevea

 

General Background:

Moore (2016). What Is the Sense of Agency and Why Does it Matter

Haggard _2008_. Human volition_Towards a neuroscience of will

Joint Sense of Agency

Loehr2022_Article_TheSenseOfAgencyInJointActionA

van der Wel (2015) Me and we. Cognition

 

SoA and AI:

Ciardo et al (2020). Attribution of intentional agency towards robots reduces one’s own sense of agency
Cross & Ramsey (2021). Mind Meets Machine_Towards a CognitiveScience of Human–Machine Interactions
Cross, Hortensius, & Wyskowska (2019). From social brains to social robots_applying neurocognitive insights to human–robot interaction
Frith (2014). Action, agency and responsibility
Henschel, Hortensius, & Cross (2020). Social cognition in the age of human-robot interaction Sahai, Pacherie et al. (2017). Predictive Mechanisms Are Not Involved the Same Way during Human-Human vs. Human-Machine Interactions
Silver et al. (2021). Social Agency as a continuum
Takayama (2011). Perspectives on agency
van der Woerdt & Haselager (2019). When robots appear to have a mind
Weideman & Russwinkel (2021). The role of frustration in HRI
Wen Wen et al. (2019). The sense of agency in driving automation
Wiese, Metta, & Wykowska (2017). Robots As Intentional Agents_Using Neuroscientific Methods to Make Robots Appear More Social
Wykowska et al (2016). Embodied artificial agents forunderstanding human social cognition Wyskowska (2020). Social Robots to test flexibility of human social cognition

 

Face Processing:

Semester-specific readings:

Emotion and action (Lexus):

1. Rotteveel & Phaf (2004) Automatic Affective Evaluation Does Not Automatically Predispose for Arm Flexion and Extension 

2. Phaf et al. (2014). Approach, avoidance, and affect_a meta-analysis of approach-avoidance tendencies in manual reaction time tasks 

3. van Dantzig, Pecher, & Zwaan (2008). Approach and avoidance as action effects

4. Maxwell & Davidson (2007). Emotion as motion

 

Processing of Emotion-Specific Action Units (Abby):

https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0177239

 

General Background

Young & Burton (2018). Are we face experts

Freeman chapter (2024). Social categorization

Nummenmaa & Calder (2009). Neural mechanisms of social attention.

On impression formation

Hehman et al (2018). Toward a comprehensive model of face impressions

On bottom-up and top-down factors

Palmer & Clifford (2020). Face Pareidolia Recruits Mechanisms for Detecting Human Social Attention

van der Wel et al. (2024). Is Emotion Perception Altered by Gaze Direction, Gender Appearance, and Gender Identity

On face perception in people with autism spectrum disorder (ASD)

Stantic et al (2023). Face memory and face perception in autism

Tracy et al. (2011). Is Emotion Recognition Impaired in Individuals with Autism Spectrum Disorder

Yeung (2022). A systematic review and meta-analysis of facial emotion recognition in autism spectrum disorder

Self Efficacy and SoA:

SoA on SE- Alsaleh

Joint Action:

Sebanz, Bekkering, & Knoblich (2006). Joint action_Bodies and minds moving together.

van der Wel, Becchio, Curioni, & Wolf (2021). Understanding joint action_Current theoretical and empirical approaches

van der Wel, Sebanz & Knoblich (2016). A joint action perspective on embodiment

Vesper et al (2010). A minimal architecture for joint action

Action as Cognition:

Witt & van der Wel (2024). Perception and Action

Hommel _2003_. Planning and representing intentional action

RosenbaumAmericanPsychologistCindere

 

What is Cognition:

Current Biology (2019). What is cognition

Amodio et al. (2014). ERP approaches for social cognitive and affective neuroscience

Choi (2017). What neuroscience can and cannot answer