Measuring adaptive control in conflict tasks

Catégorie

Journal Article

Auteurs

Braem, S., Bugg, J. M., Schmidt, J. R., Crump, M. J. C., Weissman, D. H., Notebaert, W., Egner, T.

Année

2019

Titre

Measuring adaptive control in conflict tasks

Journal / Livre / Conférence

Trends in Cognitive Sciences

Résumé

The past two decades have witnessed an explosion of interest in the cognitive and neural mechanisms of adaptive control processes that operate in selective attention tasks. This has spawned a large empirical literature and several theories, but also recurring identification of potential confounds and corresponding adjustments in task design to create confound-minimized metrics of adaptive control. The resultant complexity of this literature can be difficult to navigate for new researchers entering this field, leading to sub-optimal study designs. To remediate this problem, we here present a consensus view among opposing theorists that specifies how researchers can measure four hallmark indices of adaptive control (the congruency sequence effect, and the list-wide, context-specific, and item-specific proportion congruency effects) while minimizing easy-to-overlook confounds.

Issue

23

Pages

769–783

Mots-clés

cognitive control, conflict adaptation, executive function, interference effects

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