Does conflict help or hurt cognitive control? Initial evidence for an inverted U-shape relationship between perceived task difficulty and conflict adaptation

Does conflict help or hurt cognitive control? Initial evidence for an inverted U-shape relationship between perceived task difficulty and conflict adaptation

Sequential modulation of congruency effects in conflict tasks indicates that cognitive control quickly adapts to changing task demands. We investigated in four experiments how this behavioral congruency-sequence effect relates to different levels of perceived task difficulty in a flanker and a Stroo...

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Main Authors: Henk eVan Steenbergen, Guido P H Band, Bernhard eHommel
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2015-07-01
Series:Frontiers in Psychology
Subjects:
Motivation
cognitive control
effort
pupil dilation
task difficulty
Online Access:http://journal.frontiersin.org/Journal/10.3389/fpsyg.2015.00974/full

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