What is it about?
Tasks that induce intereference between different responses are commonly used to investigate cognitive control, i. e. the cognitive state controlling the weighting of task-relevant to task-irrelevant information. Previous research suggested that in these tasks cognitive control decays over course of 3-5 seconds. In this study, we show that cognitive control is temporally stable as long participants are incentivized by the task structure to rely on pure control strategies in contrast to relying on memory for stimulus-response combinations.
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Why is it important?
Research on the maintenance of cognitive control is important to advance existing theories, since these usually incorporate temporal aspects of control adaptations on a very abstract level which is helpful for experimental work, but does not reflect the temporal uncertainties in real life situations.
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This page is a summary of: No temporal decay of cognitive control in the congruency sequence effect., Journal of Experimental Psychology Learning Memory and Cognition, September 2022, American Psychological Association (APA),
DOI: 10.1037/xlm0001159.
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