Measuring adaptive control in conflict tasks

S Braem, JM Bugg, JR Schmidt, MJC Crump… - Trends in cognitive …, 2019 - cell.com
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 …

[HTML][HTML] Meta-control: From psychology to computational neuroscience

B Eppinger, T Goschke, S Musslick - Cognitive, Affective, & Behavioral …, 2021 - Springer
Research in the past decades shed light on the different mechanisms that underlie our
capacity for cognitive control. However, the meta-level processes that regulate cognitive …

One cannot simply'be flexible': Regulating control parameters requires learning

S Braem, M Chai, LK Held, S Xu - Current Opinion in Behavioral Sciences, 2024 - Elsevier
Highlights•It is often assumed that humans can readily regulate cognitive control
parameters.•Recent studies suggest humans often struggle to flexibly adjust control …

Proactive control in the Stroop task: A conflict-frequency manipulation free of item-specific, contingency-learning, and color-word correlation confounds.

G Spinelli, SJ Lupker - Journal of Experimental Psychology …, 2021 - psycnet.apa.org
In the Stroop task, congruency effects (ie, the color-naming latency difference between
incongruent stimuli, eg, the word BLUE written in the color red, and congruent stimuli, eg …

[HTML][HTML] Too anxious to control: the relation between math anxiety and inhibitory control processes

E Van den Bussche, K Vanmeert, B Aben… - Scientific Reports, 2020 - nature.com
Based on the attentional control theory, math anxiety has been explained in terms of
impaired inhibition, a key cognitive control function associated with the central executive …

[HTML][HTML] Cost-benefit trade-offs in decision-making and learning

N Sidarus, S Palminteri, V Chambon - PLoS computational …, 2019 - journals.plos.org
Value-based decision-making involves trading off the cost associated with an action against
its expected reward. Research has shown that both physical and mental effort constitute …

Mapping dynamic interactions among cognitive biases in depression

J Everaert, A Bernstein, J Joormann… - Emotion …, 2020 - journals.sagepub.com
Depression is theorized to be caused in part by biased cognitive processing of emotional
information. Yet, prior research has adopted a reductionist approach that does not …

Is the juice worth the squeeze? Learning the marginal value of mental effort over time.

AR Otto, S Braem, M Silvetti… - Journal of Experimental …, 2022 - psycnet.apa.org
In keeping with the view that individuals invest cognitive effort in accordance with its relative
costs and benefits, reward incentives typically improve performance in tasks that require …

[HTML][HTML] Accounting for proportion congruency effects in the Stroop task in a confounded setup: Retrieval of stimulus-response episodes explains it all

K Rothermund, N Gollnick, CG Giesen - Journal of Cognition, 2022 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Proportion congruency (PC) effects on the strength of distractor interference were
investigated in a high-powered (n= 109), pre-registered experiment in which participants …

Memory-guided selective attention: Single experiences with conflict have long-lasting effects on cognitive control.

NP Brosowsky, MJC Crump - Journal of Experimental Psychology …, 2018 - psycnet.apa.org
Adjustments in cognitive control, as measured by congruency sequence effects, are thought
to be influenced by both external stimuli and internal goals. However, this dichotomy has …