@article{ref1,
title="Are cognitive control processes reliable?",
journal="Journal of experimental psychology: learning, memory, and cognition",
year="2019",
author="Whitehead, Peter S. and Brewer, Gene A. and Blais, Chris",
volume="45",
number="5",
pages="765-778",
abstract="Recent work on cognitive control focuses on the <i>conflict-monitoring hypothesis</i>, which posits that a performance monitoring mechanism recruits regions in the dorsolateral prefrontal cortex to ensure that goal-directed behavior is optimal. Critical to this theory is that a single performance monitoring mechanism explains a large number of behavioral effects including the sequential congruency effect (SCE) and the error-related slowing (ERS) effect. This leads to the prediction that the size of these effects should correlate across cognitive control tasks. To this end, we conducted three large-scale individual differences experiments to examine whether the SCE and ERS effect are correlated across Simon, Flanker, and Stroop tasks. Across all experiments, the results revealed a correlation for the error-related slowing effect, but not for the sequential congruency effect across tasks. We discuss the implications of these results in regards to the hypothesis that a domain-general performance monitoring mechanism drives both effects. (PsycINFO Database Record<br><br>(c) 2018 APA, all rights reserved).<p /> <p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="0278-7393",
doi="10.1037/xlm0000632",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1037/xlm0000632"
}