ArticleJournal of experimental psychology. General2025
Proactive control declines while reactive control is preserved across the adult lifespan.
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- Behavioral variability and preparatory ERPs as neurobehavioral markers of mild cognitive impairment risk in older adults.GeroScience · 2026Article
- Are the correlates of mind wandering consistent across younger and older adults?Psychological research · 2026Article
- Hierarchical Bayesian Regression for experimental psychology: a case study of cognitive control.Frontiers in psychology · 2026Article
- Age-related differences in information, but not task control in the color-word Stroop task.Psychonomic bulletin & review · 2025Article
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We provide a comprehensive investigation of proactive and reactive control during Stroop task performance with younger, middle-aged, and older adults to test predictions of the dual mechanisms of control framework. A novel color-word vocal response paradigm was utilized with separate proactive, baseline, and reactive conditions, which differed in list-wide and item-specific proportion congruencies, along with matched and randomly alternating color naming and word reading blocks. When compared to baseline, the proactive condition indexes processes that actively maintain goal-relevant information during contexts in which distraction is expected, while the reactive condition indexes dynamic adjustment processes engaged when items associated with high cognitive control demands are unpredictably encountered. Using a large sample (
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