Reduced flexibility of cognitive control: reactive, but not proactive control, underpins the congruency sequence effect

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Qian Yang ◽  
Gilles Pourtois
Keyword(s):  
Cognitive Control ◽  
Proactive Control ◽  
Sequence Effect ◽  
Congruency Sequence Effect

scholarly journals Is there evidence for cross-domain congruency sequence effect? A replication of Kan et al . (2013)

2021 ◽  
Vol 8 (3) ◽  
pp. 191353
Author(s):  
Balazs Aczel ◽  
Marton Kovacs ◽  
Miklos Bognar ◽  
Bence Palfi ◽  
Andree Hartanto ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Cognitive Control ◽  
Original Study ◽  
Partial Support ◽  
Sequence Effect ◽  
Theoretical Frameworks ◽  
Cross Domain ◽  
Domain Generality ◽  
Theoretical Hypothesis ◽  
Congruency Sequence Effect ◽  
Single Exception

Exploring the mechanisms of cognitive control is central to understanding how we control our behaviour. These mechanisms can be studied in conflict paradigms, which require the inhibition of irrelevant responses to perform the task. It has been suggested that in these tasks, the detection of conflict enhances cognitive control resulting in improved conflict resolution of subsequent trials. If this is the case, then this so-called congruency sequence effect can be expected to occur in cross-domain tasks. Previous research on the domain-generality of the effect presented inconsistent results. In this study, we provide a multi-site replication of three previous experiments of Kan et al . (Kan IP, Teubner-Rhodes S, Drummey AB, Nutile L, Krupa L, Novick JM 2013 Cognition 129 , 637–651) which test congruency sequence effect between very different domains: from a syntactic to a non-syntactic domain (Experiment 1), and from a perceptual to a verbal domain (Experiments 2 and 3). Despite all our efforts, we found only partial support for the claims of the original study. With a single exception, we could not replicate the original findings; the data remained inconclusive or went against the theoretical hypothesis. We discuss the compatibility of the results with alternative theoretical frameworks.

Congruency sequence effect is modulated by the similarity of conflicts

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Guochun Yang ◽  
Xu Honghui ◽  
Li Zhenghan ◽  
Weizhi Nan ◽  
Haiyan Wu ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Cognitive Control ◽  
Boundary Conditions ◽  
Associative Learning ◽  
Polar Angle ◽  
Sequence Effect ◽  
Mixed Effect ◽  
Various Boundary Conditions ◽  
Congruency Sequence Effect ◽  
The Cross ◽  
Mixed Effect Modeling

Congruence effect can be modulated by adjacent conflict conditions, producing congruency sequence effect (CSE). However, there are boundary conditions preventing the transfer of cross-conflict CSE. Intensive discussions have been made on whether CSE reflects top-down control or bottom-up associative learning, but neither could perfectly interpret the various boundary conditions. Their imperfection recently inspired an integrative associative learning account of cognitive control, which predicted that conflict similarity affects the magnitude of the cross-conflict CSE. We examined this hypothesis by introducing a compound condition containing both spatial Stroop and Simon components in Experiment 1. The conflict similarity was defined by the amount of component overlap, as manipulated by the polar angle of the target arrow in Experiments 2a and 2b and by the Euclidean distance of the target arrow in Experiments 3a and 3b, respectively. Mixed-effect modeling analyses indicated that in all experiments, the cross-conflict CSEs were positively correlated to the similarity of the two conflict conditions. Specifically, the compound condition with the same amount of Stroop and Simon components generated comparable CSE with both Stroop and Simon conditions (Experiment 1). When the compound condition was more similar to the Stroop than the Simon condition, a trend of larger CSE was observed between the compound conflict and the Stroop condition than between the compound conflict and the Simon condition, and vice versa (Experiments 2 and 3). Our study revealed that the continuum of the cross-conflict CSE was modulated by conflict similarity, hence supporting the associative learning account of cognitive control.

scholarly journals Is there evidence for cross-domain congruency sequence effect? A replication of Kan et al. (2013)

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Balazs Aczel ◽  
Marton Kovacs ◽  
Miklos Bognar ◽  
Bence Palfi ◽  
Andree Hartanto ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Cognitive Control ◽  
Original Study ◽  
Partial Support ◽  
Sequence Effect ◽  
Theoretical Frameworks ◽  
Cross Domain ◽  
Domain Generality ◽  
Theoretical Hypothesis ◽  
Congruency Sequence Effect ◽  
Single Exception

Exploring the mechanisms of cognitive control is central to understanding how we control our behaviour. These mechanisms can be studied in conflict paradigms, which require the inhibition of irrelevant responses to perform the task. It has been suggested that in these tasks the detection of conflict enhances cognitive control resulting in improved conflict resolution of subsequent trials. If this is the case then this so-called congruency sequence effect can be expected to occur in cross-domain tasks. Previous research on the domain-generality of the effect presented inconsistent results. In this study, we provide a multi-site replication of three previous experiments of Kan et al. (2013) which test congruency sequence effect between very different domains: from a syntactic to a non-syntactic domain (Experiment 1), and from a perceptual to a verbal domain (Experiment 2 and 3). Despite all our efforts, we found only partial support for the claims of the original study. With a single exception, we could not replicate the original findings, the data remained inconclusive or went against the theoretical hypothesis. We discuss the compatibility of the results with alternative theoretical frameworks.

Going, going, gone? Proactive control prevents the congruency sequence effect from rapid decay

2013 ◽  
Vol 78 (4) ◽  
pp. 483-493 ◽  
Author(s):  
W. Duthoo ◽  
E. L. Abrahamse ◽  
S. Braem ◽  
W. Notebaert
Keyword(s):  
Proactive Control ◽  
Sequence Effect ◽  
Rapid Decay ◽  
Congruency Sequence Effect
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