Funding for this research was provided by:
Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (Project-ID 232722074 – SFB 1102)
Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (Project A6)
Universität des Saarlandes
Article History
Received: 29 September 2025
Accepted: 31 December 2025
First Online: 16 March 2026
Declarations
:
: The authors declare no competing financial interests.
: The experimental procedures were approved by the ethics board of the Faculty of Human and Business Sciences at Saarland University (nr: 21–28).
: Written informed consent was obtained from all participants prior to their participation in the study.
: All participants provided written informed consent regarding the publishing of their data.
: The stimulus materials for the experiments are available upon request and the experiment was preregistered. Behavioral and EEG data and analysis scripts to reproduce the results are available at