The congruency sequence effect 3.0: a critical test of conflict adaptation.

ABSTRACT: Over the last two decades, the congruency sequence effect (CSE) -the finding of a reduced congruency effect following incongruent trials in conflict tasks- has played a central role in advancing research on cognitive control. According to the influential conflict-monitoring account, the CSE reflects adjustments in selective attention that enhance task focus when needed, often termed conflict adaptation. However, this dominant interpretation of the CSE has been called into question by several alternative accounts that stress the role of episodic memory processes: feature binding and (stimulus-response) contingency learning. To evaluate the notion of conflict adaptation in accounting for the CSE, we construed versions of three widely used experimental paradigms (the colour-word Stroop, pictu

SUBMITTER: Duthoo W 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4207697 | biostudies-literature | 2014

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature