Context-specific control and context selection in conflict tasks |
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Authors: | Nathalie Schouppe K Richard Ridderinkhof Tom Verguts Wim Notebaert |
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Institution: | 1. Department of Experimental Psychology, Ghent University, Belgium;2. Department of Developmental Psychology, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands;3. Cognitive Science Center Amsterdam, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands |
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Abstract: | This study investigated whether participants prefer contexts with relatively little cognitive conflict and whether this preference is related to context-specific control. A conflict selection task was administered in which participants had to choose between two categories that contained different levels of conflict. One category was associated with 80% congruent Stroop trials and 20% incongruent Stroop trials, while the other category was associated with only 20% congruent Stroop trials and 80% incongruent Stroop trials. As predicted, participants selected the low-conflict category more frequently, indicating that participants avoid contexts with high-conflict likelihood. Furthermore, we predicted a correlation between this preference for the low-conflict category and the control implementation associated with the categories (i.e., context-specific proportion congruency effect, CSPC effect). Results however did not show such a correlation, thereby failing to support a relationship between context control and context selection. |
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Keywords: | 2300 2340 |
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