Sustained vs. transient cognitive control: Evidence of a behavioral dissociation

Funes, María Jesús; Lupiáñez, Juan; Humphreys, Glyn W.

doi:10.1016/j.cognition.2009.10.007

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“…The results of Funes et al (2010b) revealed transfer of the LWPC effect from frequencybiased (Simon-like) items to unbiased (Strooplike) items, but no transfer of the Gratton effect from Simon-like trials to Stroop-like trials. In particular, Stroop-like interference was larger in a context of mostly congruent Simon-like trials than in a context of mostly incongruent Simonlike trials.…”

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“…Previous studies revealed that the LWPC effect can transfer from frequency-biased items to unbiased items within the same task-that is, when both sets of items shared relevant stimuli and responses (e.g., Funes et al 2010b). Experiment 1 went one step further and tested whether the LWPC effect would also transfer between two tasks that involve different stimuli and different responses.…”

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“…The results from two other transfer studies, however, suggest that it might be premature to dismiss flexible control as an account for LWPC effects (Bugg & Chanani, 2011;Funes, Lupiáñez, & Humphreys, 2010b). Bugg and Chanani (2011) used picture-word Stroop stimuli and increased the number of frequency-biased items from two to four.…”

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“…Stronger support for flexible control was provided by Funes et al (2010b) where transfer of LWPC effects in the absence of transfer of sequential effects was demonstrated. In their task, participants responded to upward-or downward-pointing arrowheads by pressing a left or right key.…”

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Generalizing attentional control across dimensions and tasks: Evidence from transfer of proportion-congruent effects

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2015

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Three experiments investigated transfer of list-wide proportion congruent (LWPC) effects from a set of congruent and incongruent items with different frequency (inducer task) to a set of congruent and incongruent items with equal frequency (diagnostic task). Experiments 1 and 2 mixed items from horizontal and vertical Simon tasks. Tasks always involved different stimuli that varied on the same dimension (colour) in Experiment 1 and on different dimensions (colour, shape) in Experiment 2. Experiment 3 mixed trials from a manual Simon task with trials from a vocal Stroop task, with colour being the relevant stimulus in both tasks. There were two major results. First, we observed transfer of LWPC effects in Experiments 1 and 3, when tasks shared the relevant dimension, but not in Experiment 2. Second, sequential modulations of congruency effects transferred in Experiment 1 only. Hence, the different transfer patterns suggest that LWPC effects and sequential modulations arise from different mechanisms. Moreover, the observation of transfer supports an account of LWPC effects in terms of list-wide cognitive control, while being at odds with accounts in terms of stimulus-response (contingency) learning and itemspecific control.

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“…When Mayr and colleagues analysed only complete alternation trials, where both the word and the colour change (e.g., BLUE red followed by GREEN yellow ), the Gratton effect QUESTIONING CONFLICT ADAPTATION 21 was eliminated. Subsequent work has confirmed that removing these stimulus binding biases substantially reduces the Gratton effect, but a significant remaining effect is often observed (e.g., Akçay & Hazeltine, 2007Funes, Lupiáñez, & Humphreys, 2010;Van Gaal, Lamme, & Ridderinkhof, 2010;Verbruggen, Notebaert, Liefooghe, & Vandierendonck, 2006). Thus, binding plays a sizeable role, but is clearly not the whole story (see Egner, 2007 for a review).…”

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Questioning conflict adaptation: proportion congruent and Gratton effects reconsidered

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Conflict adaptation is one of the most popular ideas in cognitive psychology. It purports to explain a wide range of data, including both brain and behavioural data from the proportion congruent and Gratton paradigms. However, in recent years many concerns about the viability of this account have been raised. It has been argued that contingency learning, not conflict adaptation, produces the proportion congruent effect. Similarly, the Gratton paradigm has been shown to contain several confounds, most notably feature repetition biases. Newer work on temporal learning further questions the interpretability of the behavioural results of conflict adaptation studies. Brain data linking supposed conflict adaptation to the anterior cingulated cortex (ACC) has also come into question, as this area seems to be solely responsive to time-ontask rather than conflict. This review points to the possibility that conflict adaptation may simply be an illusion. However, the extant data remain ambiguous and there are a lot of open questions that still need to be addressed in future research. QUESTIONING CONFLICT ADAPTATION 3 Questioning Conflict Adaptation: Proportion Congruent and Gratton Effects ReconsideredThe role of cognitive control in basic mental functions is one of the primary questions of interest for cognitive psychologists. One of the most popular ideas in the literature is conflict adaptation, the idea that we deal with conflict between stimuli in our environment by shifting attention away from the source of conflict and toward the stimulus we wish to process. The Stroop paradigm (Stroop, 1935) offers the most common way of studying conflict adaptation. In this task, participants identify the print colour of a colour word. Response times and error rates are increased to incongruent stimuli (e.g., the word BLUE printed in red; BLUE red ) relative to congruent stimuli (e.g., BLUE blue ). Other commonly used paradigms included the Eriksen flanker task (Eriksen & Eriksen, 1974), in which congruent or incongruent distracting letters (or words) are presented on either side of a centrally-located target letter (or word); and the Simon task (Simon & Rudell, 1967), in which a distracting stimulus location is either congruent or incongruent with the response that needs to be made to the target (e.g., a left keypress for a stimulus on the right side of the screen). In paradigms such as these, evidence for conflict adaptation comes from the observation that the size of the congruency effect can be altered in response to changes in conflict. In particular, this paper discusses the proportion congruent and Gratton paradigms.Conflict adaptation theory has a lot of explanatory power. However, the goal of this paper is to explore whether or not conflict adaptation must be assumed in order to explain such phenomena as the proportion congruent and Gratton effects. Some of the mounting evidence against the highly popular conflict adaptation account will be discussed and it will be argued that simpler, non-conflict learning and...

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Working memory demands modulate cognitive control in the Stroop paradigm

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2012

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Sustained vs. transient cognitive control: Evidence of a behavioral dissociation

Cited by 103 publications

References 42 publications

Generalizing attentional control across dimensions and tasks: Evidence from transfer of proportion-congruent effects

Generalizing attentional control across dimensions and tasks: Evidence from transfer of proportion-congruent effects

Questioning conflict adaptation: proportion congruent and Gratton effects reconsidered

Working memory demands modulate cognitive control in the Stroop paradigm

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