Control in context: The theta rhythm provides evidence for reactive control but no evidence for proactive control

J Mendl, S Banerjee, R Fischer, G Dreisbach… - …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
A prime goal of psychological science is to understand how humans can flexibly adapt to
rapidly changing contexts. The foundation of this cognitive flexibility rests on contextual …

No pupillometric evidence for effortful proactive control in the proportion-congruent Stroop paradigm

N Hasshim, M Carruthers, L Ferrand… - Quarterly Journal of …, 2024 - journals.sagepub.com
Cognitive control is the ability to allocate attention away from stimuli that are irrelevant to
achieving a goal, towards stimuli that are. When conflict is anticipated, attention is biased in …

A spatial version of the Stroop task for examining proactive and reactive control independently from non-conflict processes

G Spinelli, SJ Lupker - Attention, Perception, & Psychophysics, 2024 - Springer
Conflict-induced control refers to humans' ability to regulate attention in the processing of
target information (eg, the color of a word in the color-word Stroop task) based on …

Fast habituation to semantic interference generated by taboo connotation in reading aloud

S Sulpizio, M Scaltritti, G Spinelli - Cognition and Emotion, 2024 - Taylor & Francis
The recognition of taboo words–ie socially inappropriate words–has been repeatedly
associated to semantic interference phenomena, with detrimental effects on the performance …

[PDF][PDF] No resources, no problem for selection in bilingual language production and conflict tasks: Implications for theories of language-control associations and …

G Spinelli, S Sulpizio - 2024 - osf.io
Theories of adaptive (and cognitive) control assume that selecting target information in the
context of highly salient distractors depends on limited-capacity resources. Building on this …