Trial reportPloS one2019
Conflict resolution in the Eriksen flanker task: Similarities and differences to the Simon task.
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42 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.
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- Gratton effect in the numerical Stroop task is distance dependent.Memory & cognition · 2026Article
- Ten years Diffusion Model for Conflict (DMC) tasks: Theoretical foundations, applications, practical recommendations, and open challenges.Psychonomic bulletin & review · 2026Review
- Delayed goal-directed processing underlies inhibitory control challenges in adult ADHD.Scientific reports · 2026Article
- How visual eccentricity shapes conflict via target and distractor processing in the Simon task.Psychonomic bulletin & review · 2026Article
- No congruency sequence effect across Simon and Eriksen tasks with aligned temporal processing dynamics: Evidence for domain-specific over domain-general cognitive control.Memory & cognition · 2026Article
- Continuous Hand-Arm Vibrations Do Not Interfere with Cognitive Processing.Journal of cognition · 2026Article
- Investigating the gaze-driven reversed congruency effect in the spatial Stroop task: A distributional approach.British journal of psychology (London, England : 1953) · 2025Article
- Validating the directional command flanker task: An auditory analog of the arrows flanker.Behavior research methods · 2025Article
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- A comment on the Revised Diffusion Model for Conflict tasks (RDMC).Psychonomic bulletin & review · 2025Review
- Dynamic modulation of spatial selection: Online and anticipatory adjustments in the flanker task.Attention, perception & psychophysics · 2025Article
- Exploring the spatial interference effects elicited by social and non-social targets: A conditional accuracy function approach.British journal of psychology (London, England : 1953) · 2025Article
- Task-specific topology of brain networks supporting working memory and inhibition.Human brain mapping · 2024Article
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Abstract
In the Eriksen flanker task as well as in the Simon task irrelevant activation produces a response conflict that has to be resolved by mental control mechanisms. Despite these similarities, however, the tasks differ with respect to their delta functions, which express how the congruency effects develop with response time. The slope of the delta function is mostly positive for the flanker task, but negative for the Simon task. Much effort has been spent to explain this difference and to investigate whether it results from task-specific control. A prominent account is that the temporal overlap between irrelevant and relevant response activation is larger in the flanker task than in the Simon task. To test this hypothesis, we increased the temporal distance in a flanker task by presenting the flankers ahead of the target. This not only produced negatively sloped delta functions but also caused reversed congruency effects. We also conducted a Simon-task experiment in which we varied the proportion of congruent stimuli. As a result, the delta function was negatively sloped only if the proportion was low. These results demonstrate that a long temporal distance is necessary but not sufficient for observing negatively sloped delta functions. Finally, we modeled the data with drift-diffusion models. Together, our results show that differently sloped delta functions can be produced with both tasks. They further indicate that activation suppression is an important control mechanism that can be adapted rather flexibly to the control demands.
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