How do emotional stimuli change the way we control our behavior? The interaction between
emotion and behavior-shaping, cognitive control mechanisms remain little understood in …

Sex differences in cognitive functioning have been consistently reported in some cognitive
tasks, with varying effect sizes. The most consistent findings in healthy adults are sex …

According to a growing consensus, the Stroop effect is understood as a phenomenon of
conflict and cognitive control. A tidal wave of recent research alleges that incongruent Stroop …

The Stroop effect has been a key to the assay of selective attention since the time of the
epoch-making study by JR Stroop almost a century ago. However, recent work based on …

In the last decade, a number of studies have reported sex differences in selective attention,
but a unified explanation for these effects is still missing. This study aims to better …

Sex differences and menstrual cycle influences have been investigated in a variety of
cognitive abilities, but results regarding attention are comparably sparse. In the present …

Across many types of tasks, our ability to process multiple objects or locations at once is
limited by a finite processing resource. This chapter describes 15 classic examples of such …

Inhibition of return (IOR) occurs when a target is preceded by an irrelevant stimulus (cue) at
the same location: Target detection is slowed, relative to uncued locations. In the present …

This study investigated the visual information that children and adults consider while
switching or maintaining object-matching rules. Eye movements of 5-and 6-year-old children …

The item-specific proportion congruence (ISPC) effect refers to the attenuation of
interference for mostly incongruent relative to mostly congruent items. In the present study …