Dudschig Carolin
Fachbereich Psychologie, University Tübingen, Schleichstr. 4, 72076 Tübingen.
R Soc Open Sci. 2022 Jul 27;9(7):210550. doi: 10.1098/rsos.210550. eCollection 2022 Jul.
Conflict and conflict adaptation are well-studied phenomena in experimental psychology. Standard tasks investigating causes and outcomes of conflict during information processing include the Stroop, the Flanker and the Simon task. Interestingly, recent research efforts have moved toward investigating whether conflict in one task domain influences information processing in another task domain, typically referred to as cross-task conflict adaptation. These transfer effects are of central importance for theories about our cognitive architecture, as they are interpreted as pointing towards domain-general cognitive mechanisms. Given the importance of these cross-task transfer effects, the current paper targets at replicating one of the key findings. Specifically, Kan (Kan . 2013 , 637-651) showed that reading syntactically ambiguous sentences result in processing adjustments in subsequent Stroop trials. This result is in line with the idea that conflict monitoring works in a domain overarching manner. The present paper presents two replication studies: (i) exact replication: identical sentence-reading task intermixed with stimulus-based Stroop task and (ii) conceptual replication: identical sentence-reading task intermixed with response-based Stroop task. Power calculations were based on the original paper. Both experiments were pre-registered. Despite the experiments being closely designed according to the original study, there was no evidence supporting the hypothesis regarding cross-domain conflict adaptation.
冲突和冲突适应是实验心理学中经过充分研究的现象。研究信息处理过程中冲突的原因和结果的标准任务包括斯特鲁普任务、侧翼任务和西蒙任务。有趣的是，最近的研究工作已转向探究一个任务领域中的冲突是否会影响另一个任务领域中的信息处理，这通常被称为跨任务冲突适应。这些转移效应对于有关我们认知架构的理论至关重要，因为它们被解释为指向领域通用的认知机制。鉴于这些跨任务转移效应的重要性，本文旨在复制其中一项关键发现。具体而言，Kan（Kan. 2013, 637 - 651）表明，阅读句法歧义句会导致后续斯特鲁普试验中的处理调整。这一结果与冲突监测以领域总体方式起作用的观点一致。本文呈现了两项复制研究：（i）精确复制：将相同的句子阅读任务与基于刺激的斯特鲁普任务混合；（ii）概念复制：将相同的句子阅读任务与基于反应的斯特鲁普任务混合。功效计算基于原始论文。两项实验均进行了预注册。尽管实验是根据原始研究精心设计的，但没有证据支持关于跨领域冲突适应的假设。
