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ArticleeLife2021

Preserved sensory processing but hampered conflict detection when stimulus input is task-irrelevant.

Stijn Adriaan Nuiten, Andrés Canales-Johnson, Lola Beerendonk, Nutsa Nanuashvili, Johannes Jacobus Fahrenfort, Tristan Bekinschtein, Simon van Gaal

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Article in eLife, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 7 papers.

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7 citing papers in PubMed, 26 citations in OpenAlex.

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5 · Who and what money

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7 authors at 2 institutions in 3 countries.

Stijn Adriaan NuitenDepartment of Psychology, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, Netherlands.ORCID 0000-0002-9248-166X
Andrés Canales-JohnsonDepartment of Psychology, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, Netherlands.ORCID 0000-0002-2747-8894
Lola BeerendonkDepartment of Psychology, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, Netherlands.ORCID 0000-0002-4095-5122
Nutsa NanuashviliDepartment of Psychology, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, Netherlands.ORCID 0000-0003-2408-1821
Johannes Jacobus FahrenfortDepartment of Psychology, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, Netherlands.ORCID 0000-0002-9025-3436
Tristan Bekinschtein *Department of Psychology, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom.
Simon van Gaal *Department of Psychology, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, Netherlands.ORCID 0000-0001-6628-4534
University of Amsterdam · NLUniversity of Cambridge · GB

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Conflict detection in sensory input is central to adaptive human behavior. Perhaps unsurprisingly, past research has shown that conflict may even be detected in the absence of conflict awareness, suggesting that conflict detection is an automatic process that does not require attention. To test the possibility of conflict processing in the absence of attention, we manipulated task relevance and response overlap of potentially conflicting stimulus features across six behavioral tasks. Multivariate analyses on human electroencephalographic data revealed neural signatures of conflict only when at least one feature of a conflicting stimulus was attended, regardless of whether that feature was part of the conflict, or overlaps with the response. In contrast, neural signatures of basic sensory processes were present even when a stimulus was completely unattended. These data reveal an attentional bottleneck at the level of objects, suggesting that object-based attention is a prerequisite for cognitive control operations involved in conflict detection.

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Conflict, PsychologicalAcoustic StimulationAdolescentAdultCognitionElectroencephalographyFemaleHumansMalePerceptionPsychological TestsYoung Adultcognitive conflictcognitive controldecodingEEGhumanneuroscienceobject-based attentiontask-relevance

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