Cognitive control processes that enable purposeful behavior are often context-specific. A
teenager, for example, may inhibit the tendency to daydream at work but not in the …

Evidence suggests that the features of a stimulus and the actions performed on it are bound
together into a coherent mental representation of the episode, which is retrieved from …

Visual stimuli are often processed more efficiently than accompanying stimuli in another
modality. In line with this “visual dominance”, earlier studies on attentional switching showed …

Language switching studies typically implement visual stimuli and visual language cues to
trigger a concept and a language response, respectively. In the present study we set out to …

Cognitive control over information processing can be implemented by selective attention, but
it is often suboptimal, as indicated by congruency effects arising from processing of …

A substantial literature relates task-set control and language selection in bilinguals—with
“switching” paradigms serving as a methodological “bridge.” We asked a basic question: Is …

Switching auditory attention to one of two (or more) simultaneous voices incurs a substantial
performance overhead. Whether/when this voice 'switch cost'reduces when the listener has …

Competition between the senses can lead to modality dominance, where one sense
influences multi-modal processing to a greater degree than another. Modality dominance …

The Eriksen flanker task is a traditional conflict paradigm for studying the influence of task-
irrelevant information on the processing of task-relevant information. In this task, participants …

Congruency effects in arrow flanker tasks are often larger when subjects are more alert,
suggesting an unusual connection between alertness and cognitive control. Theoretical …