@article{ref1,
title="Context, not conflict, drives cognitive control",
journal="Journal of experimental psychology: human perception and performance",
year="2012",
author="Schlaghecken, Friederike and Martini, Paolo",
volume="38",
number="2",
pages="272-278",
abstract="Theories of cognitive control generally assume that perceived conflict acts as a signal to engage inhibitory mechanisms that suppress subsequent conflicting information. Crucially, an absence of conflict is not regarded as being a relevant signal for cognitive control. Using a cueing, a priming, and a Simon task, we provide evidence that conflict does not have this unique signal status: Encountering a conflict does not lead to behavioral adjustments on subsequent conflict trials, whereas encountering a nonconflict trial does lead to behavioral adjustments on subsequent nonconflict trials. We propose that this apparent role-reversal can be explained by a mechanism that responds to both the presence and the absence of conflict, down-regulating the visuomotor system following conflict, and up-regulating it following nonconflict. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2011 APA, all rights reserved).<p /> <p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="0096-1523",
doi="10.1037/a0025791",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1037/a0025791"
}