AUTHOR=Keye Doris , Wilhelm Oliver , Oberauer Klaus , Stürmer Birgit TITLE=Individual differences in response conflict adaptations JOURNAL=Frontiers in Psychology VOLUME=4 YEAR=2013 URL=https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/psychology/articles/10.3389/fpsyg.2013.00947 DOI=10.3389/fpsyg.2013.00947 ISSN=1664-1078 ABSTRACT=
Conflict-monitoring theory argues for a general cognitive mechanism that monitors for conflicts in information-processing. If that mechanism detects conflict, it engages cognitive control to resolve it. A slow-down in response to incongruent trials (conflict effect), and a modulation of the conflict effect by the congruence of the preceding trial (Gratton or context effect) have been taken as indicators of such a monitoring system. The present study (