Control adjustment costs limit goal flexibility: Empirical evidence and a computational account.

ABSTRACT: A cornerstone of human intelligence is the ability to flexibly adjust our cognition and behavior as our goals change. For instance, achieving some goals requires efficiency, while others require caution. Adapting to these changing goals require corresponding adjustments in cognitive control (e.g., levels of attention, response thresholds). However, adjusting our control to meet new goals comes at a cost: we are better at achieving a goal in isolation than when transitioning between goals. The source of these control adjustment costs remains poorly understood, and the bulk of our understanding of such costs comes from settings in which participants transition between discrete task sets, rather than performance goals. Across four experiments, we show that adjustments in continuous con

SUBMITTER: Grahek I 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10473589 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature