ArticleAttention, perception & psychophysics2023
The influence of reward in the Simon task: Differences and similarities to the Stroop and Eriksen flanker tasks.
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- Delayed goal-directed processing underlies inhibitory control challenges in adult ADHD.Scientific reports · 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
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- Reinforcement learning of adaptive control strategies.Communications psychology · 2024Article
- Exploring behavioral adjustments of proportion congruency manipulations in an Eriksen flanker task with visual and auditory distractor modalities.Memory & cognition · 2024Article
- Motor demands influence conflict processing in a mouse-tracking Simon task.Psychological research · 2023Article
- A Diffusion Model Analysis of Object-Based Selective Attention in the Eriksen Flanker Task.Experimental psychology · 2023Article
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Abstract
Previous studies have suggested that performance-contingent reward can modulate cognitive control by biasing irrelevant location-response associations in the Simon task. However, the influence of reward in the case of irrelevant words (Stroop task) or irrelevant flankers (Eriksen Flanker task) remains unclear. Across two preregistered experiments, the present study investigated the influence of reward on conflict processing with different types of distractors. Conflict effects on mean reaction time (RT) were reduced in the Simon task (Experiments 1 and 2) when incongruent versus congruent trials were rewarded, and this modulating effect of reward on conflict processing was also observed in the Eriksen flanker task (Experiment 2), but not in the Stroop task (Experiment 1). We propose that cognitive control adjustments to distractor-specific reward contingencies can be generalized across distractor types producing both perceptual-related (Flanker task) and motor-related (Simon task) conflict, but, if any, to a limited degree when distractors produce additional higher-level task conflict (Stroop task). In addition, distributional RT analyses (delta plots) revealed that rewarded distractor-response associations modulate cognitive control not only via biasing the strength (Simon and Eriksen tasks) but also the time-course of suppressing distractor processing (Eriksen task). Overall, the present study dissociated distractor-general and distractor-specific effects of reward on cognitive control.
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