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Contextual within-trial adaptation of cognitive control: Evidence from the combination of conflict tasks
- Source :
- Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance. 42:1505-1532
- Publication Year :
- 2016
- Publisher :
- American Psychological Association (APA), 2016.
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Abstract
- It is assumed that we recruit cognitive control (i.e., attentional adjustment and/or inhibition) to resolve 2 conflicts at a time, such as driving toward a red traffic light and taking care of a near-by ambulance car. A few studies have addressed this issue by combining a Simon task (that required responding with left or right key-press to a stimulus presented on the left or right side of the screen) with either a Stroop task (that required identifying the color of color words) or a Flanker task (that required identifying the target character among flankers). In most studies, the results revealed no interaction between the conflict tasks. However, these studies include a small stimulus set, and participants might have learned the stimulus-response mappings for each stimulus. Thus, it is possible that participants have more relied on episodic memory than on cognitive control to perform the task. In 5 experiments, we combined the 3 tasks pairwise, and we increased the stimulus set size to circumvent episodic memory contributions. The results revealed an interaction between the conflict tasks: Irrespective of task combination, the congruency effect of 1 task was smaller when the stimulus was incongruent for the other task. This suggests that when 2 conflicts are presented concurrently, the control processes induced by 1 conflict source can affect the control processes induced by the other conflict source. (PsycINFO Database Record
- Subjects :
- Adult
Male
Visual perception
Poison control
Experimental and Cognitive Psychology
Stimulus (physiology)
050105 experimental psychology
Conflict, Psychological
Executive Function
Young Adult
03 medical and health sciences
Behavioral Neuroscience
0302 clinical medicine
Arts and Humanities (miscellaneous)
Humans
Attention
0501 psychology and cognitive sciences
Episodic memory
Simon effect
05 social sciences
Cognition
Stroop Test
Color term
Visual Perception
Female
Psychology
Social psychology
Psychomotor Performance
030217 neurology & neurosurgery
Cognitive psychology
Stroop effect
Subjects
Details
- ISSN :
- 19391277 and 00961523
- Volume :
- 42
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....01557e6d5c624ad08876d9a62f1ca7d8