How flexible is cognitive control? (Mouse) tracking conflict adaptation across context similarities.

ABSTRACT: Exerting cognitive control to remain on-task and reach our goals is a crucial skill, as is the ability to flexibly adapt our responding in rapidly changing environments. The dynamics of cognitive control are typically studied by examining how participants process stimuli that contain competing relevant and irrelevant information in so-called conflict tasks. Adjustments in performance following the experience of conflict, also termed conflict adaptation, suggests a certain degree of flexibility in the deployment of cognitive control. The present study investigated to what extent conflict adaptation effects transfer across trials of the same and different tasks in three online mouse-tracking experiments. Adaptations of the Simon and Stroop tasks were combined to create different levels of co

SUBMITTER: Potamianou H 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10858099 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature