ISPA-William James Center for Research, Lisboa, Portugal.
Instituto de Medicina Molecular João Lobo Antunes, Universidade de Lisboa, Lisboa, Portugal.
Q J Exp Psychol (Hove). 2023 Nov;76(11):2524-2534. doi: 10.1177/17470218231159787. Epub 2023 Mar 23.
Recent research suggests that the cognitive monitoring system of control could be using negative affective cues intrinsic to changes in information processing to initiate top-down regulatory mechanisms. Here, we propose that positive feelings of ease-of-processing could be picked up by the monitoring system as a cue indicating that control is not necessary, leading to maladaptive control adjustments. We simultaneously target control adjustments driven by task context and on a trial-by-trial level, macro-, and micro-adjustments. This hypothesis was tested using a Stroop-like task comprised trials varying in congruence and perceptual fluency. A pseudo randomisation procedure within different proportion of congruence conditions was used to maximise discrepancy and fluency effects. Results suggest that in a mostly congruent context participants committed more fast errors when incongruent trials were easy-to-read. Moreover, within the mostly incongruent condition, we also found more errors on incongruent trials after experiencing the facilitation effect of repeated congruent trials. These results suggest that transient and sustained feelings of processing fluency can downregulate control mechanisms, leading to failed adaptive adjustments to conflict.
最近的研究表明，控制的认知监测系统可能会利用信息处理变化中固有的负性情感线索来启动自上而下的调节机制。在这里，我们提出，加工容易的积极感觉可以被监测系统捕捉到，作为一个表明不需要控制的线索，从而导致适应不良的控制调整。我们同时针对由任务上下文驱动的控制调整以及在试验水平上的宏观和微观调整。该假设使用类似于 Stroop 的任务进行了测试，该任务包含了不同一致和知觉流畅度的试验。在不同一致性条件下使用伪随机化程序来最大化差异和流畅性效应。结果表明，在高度一致的背景下，当不一致的试验容易阅读时，参与者会犯更多的快速错误。此外，在高度不一致的情况下，在经历了重复一致试验的促进效应后，我们还发现不一致试验上的错误更多。这些结果表明，短暂和持续的加工流畅感可以下调控制机制，导致对冲突的适应性调整失败。
