Preparation of Task Processing/Cognitive Control in Response to Conflicting S-R Translation

Preparation of Task Processing/Cognitive Control in Response to Conflicting S-R Translation
(funded by the German Research Foundation [Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft]], Priority Program „Executive Functions“ [SPP 1107], 2001 – 2007)
(Organization: Bernhard Hommel, Leiden; Rainer H. Kluwe, Hamburg)An important aspect of cognitive control refers to processes that adjust the cognitive system when facing changing task demands, associated with the risk of responding to external stimulation in an inappropriate way regarding the current behavioral goal. This is most prominently the case in task switching situations and in conditions in which a task-irrelevant feature of a stimulus is associated with a response (or stimulus-to-response mapping) different from the one necessary for a current task, thereby causing a conflict between action tendencies. It has been demonstrate in a variety of experimental paradigms that encountering such conflict leads to adjustments in processing that reduce the impact of previously conflicting S-R translation on following task executions. In the project we investigate characteristics of the control processes involved in task preparation and conflict-induced adaptations.

Grant holders: Rainer H. Kluwe, Mike Wendt
Participants: Stephanie Badde, Vadim Juchtenko, Aquiles Luna-Rodriguez, Alexandra Peters, Sascha Purmann, Ina Vietze

Publications:

Kluwe, R.H , Lüer, G. & Rösler, F. (Eds.) (2002). Principles of learning and memory. Basel: Birkhäuser.

Hübner, M., Dreisbach, G., Haider, H., & Kluwe, R. H. (2003). Backward inhibition as a means of sequential task-set control: evidence for reduction of task competition. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 29, 289-297.

Hommel, B., Daum, I. & Kluwe, R.H. (2004). Exorcizing the homunculus, phase two: editors´ introduction. Editorial. Acta Psychologica, 115, 99-104.

Hommel, B., Daum, I. & Kluwe, R.H. (Eds.) (2004). Executive functions. ActaPsychologica, Special Issue 115.

Hübner, M., Kluwe, R. H., Luna-Rodriguez, A., & Peters, A. (2004). Task preparation and stimulus-evoked competition. ActaPsychologica, 115, 211-234.

Hübner, M., Kluwe, R. H., Luna-Rodriguez, A., & Peters, A. (2004).Response selection difficulty and asymmetrical costs of switching between tasks and stimuli: no evidence for an exogenous component of task-set reconfiguration. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 30, 1043-1063.

Moritz, S., Hübner, M., & Kluwe, R. H. (2004). Task switching and backward inhibition in obsessive-compulsive disorder. Journal of Clinical and Experimental Neuropsychology, 26, 677-683.

Kluwe, R.H. (2006). Exekutive Funktionen. In J. Funke & P. Frensch (Hrsg.), Allgemeine Psychologie: Kognition (pp. 547-556). Göttingen: Hogrefe.

Wendt, M., Kluwe, R. H., & Peters, A. (2006). Sequential modulations of interference evoked by processing task-irrelevant stimulus features. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 32, 644-667.

Kiesel, A., Wendt, M., & Peters, A. (2007). Task switching: On the origin of response congruency effects. Psychological Research, 71, 117-125.

Wendt, M., Heldmann, M., Münte, T. F., & Kluwe, R. H. (2007). Disentangling sequential effects of stimulus- and response-related conflict and stimulus-response repetition using brain potentials. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 19, 1104-1112.

Wendt, M., Vietze, I., & Kluwe, R. (2007). Visual field X response hand interactions and level priming in the processing of laterally presented hierarchical stimuli. Brain and Cognition, 63, 1-12.

Wendt, M., & Kiesel, A. (2008). The impact of stimulus-specific practice and task instructions on response congruency effects between tasks. Psychological Research, 72, 425-432.

Wendt, M., Kluwe, R. H., & Vietze, I. (2008). Location-specific vs. hemisphere-specific adaptation of processing selectivity. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, 15, 135-140.

Purmann, S., Badde, S., & Wendt, M. (2009). Adjustments to recent and frequent conflict reflect two distinguishable mechanisms. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, 16, 350-355.

Rösler, F., Ranganath, C., Röder, B., & Kluwe, R.H. (2009). Neuroimaging and psychological theories of memory. Oxford University Press.

Vietze, I., & Wendt, M. (2009). Context-specificity of conflict frequency-dependent control. The Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 62, 1391-1400.

Wendt, M., & Luna-Rodriguez, A. (2009). Conflict-frequency affects flanker interference: role of stimulus-ensemble-specific practice and flanker-response contingencies. Experimental Psychology, 56, 206-217.

Kiesel, A., Steinhauser, M., Wendt, M., Falkenstein, M., Jost, K., Philipp, A. M., & Koch, I. (2010). Control and interference in task switching – A review. Psychological Bulletin, 136, 849-847.

Purmann, S., Badde, S., Luna-Rodriguez, A., & Wendt, M. (2011). Adaptation to frequent conflict in the Eriksen flanker task: An ERP study. Journal of Psychophysiology, 25, 50-59.

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Letzte Änderung: 2. Februar 2018