Bratzke Daniel, Ellinghaus Ruben, Mackenzie Ian, Mittelstädt Victor
Department of Psychology, University of Bremen, Bremen, Germany.
Department of General Psychology: Judgment, Decision Making, Action, Faculty of Psychology, University of Hagen (FernUniversität in Hagen), Hagen, Germany.
Mem Cognit. 2025 Jul 21. doi: 10.3758/s13421-025-01758-1.
Previous studies have shown that the congruency sequence effect (CSE) is usually domain-specific, that is, no transfer across different conflict tasks is observed. The goal of the present study was to test whether the lack of a CSE transfer across the Simon and Eriksen flanker tasks can be explained by a confound of conflict type and the temporal dynamics of conflict processing (i.e., the temporal overlap of target and distractor processing). By presenting the target in the Eriksen task before the distractors, we were able to largely align the temporal overlap of distractor-to-target processing (as indexed by delta plots) in the Simon and Eriksen tasks. Nevertheless, across four experiments we found little, if any, evidence for a transfer of the CSE across tasks. Overall, the results demonstrate that cognitive control is highly specific to the type of conflict, even when controlling for the temporal dynamics of conflict processing.
先前的研究表明，一致性序列效应（CSE）通常是特定领域的，也就是说，在不同的冲突任务之间未观察到迁移。本研究的目的是检验在西蒙任务和埃里克森侧翼任务之间缺乏CSE迁移是否可以通过冲突类型与冲突处理的时间动态（即目标和干扰项处理的时间重叠）的混淆来解释。通过在埃里克森任务中先于干扰项呈现目标，我们能够在很大程度上使西蒙任务和埃里克森任务中干扰项到目标处理的时间重叠（以增量图为指标）保持一致。然而，在四个实验中，我们几乎没有发现（如果有的话）CSE跨任务迁移的证据。总体而言，结果表明，即使在控制冲突处理的时间动态时，认知控制对冲突类型也是高度特定的。
