No congruency sequence effect across Simon and Eriksen tasks with aligned temporal processing dynamics: Evidence for domain-specific over domain-general cognitive control.

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...

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Publicado en:Memory & Cognition Vol. 54; no. 2; pp. 420 - 440
Autores principales: Bratzke, Daniel, Ellinghaus, Ruben, Mackenzie, Ian, Mittelstädt, Victor
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Publicado: Springer Nature Feb2026
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          https://ror.org/04ers2y35 Department of Psychology, University of Bremen, Bremen, Germany
          https://ror.org/04tkkr536 Department of General Psychology: Judgment, Decision Making, Action, Faculty of Psychology, University of Hagen (FernUniversität in Hagen), Hagen, Germany
          https://ror.org/03a1kwz48 Department of Psychology, Eberhard Karls University of Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany
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      ab: 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.
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