title: Conflict adaptation by means of associative learning.
abstract: Cognitive control is responsible for adapting information processing in order to carry out tasks more efficiently. Contrasting global versus local control accounts, it has recently been proposed that control operates in an associative fashion, that is, by binding stimulus-response associations after detection of conflict (Verguts & Notebaert, 2009). Here, this prediction is explicitly tested for the first time. In a task-switching study where both tasks use the same relevant information, we previously reported conflict adaptation over tasks (Notebaert & Verguts, 2008). In the current experiment, we demonstrate that this is restricted to conditions where both tasks use the same effectors, thereby supporting the associative control account.
authors: Department of Experimental Psychology, Ghent University, Belgium. senne.braem@ugent.be
authors: Senne
authors: S
authors: Braem
authors: Tom
authors: T
authors: Verguts
authors: Wim
authors: W
authors: Notebaert
mesh_terms: D000223:Adaptation, Psychological; D000293:Adolescent; D001143:Arousal; D001245:Association Learning; D003118:Color Perception; D003220:Conflict, Psychological; D005260:Female; D007839:Functional Laterality; D005793:Generalization, Psychological; D006801:Humans; D007266:Inhibition, Psychological; D008297:Male; D009949:Orientation; D010364:Pattern Recognition, Visual; D011597:Psychomotor Performance; D011930:Reaction Time; D012193:Reversal Learning; D055815:Young Adult