@article{451bc62634264d3bacea0705029669a0,
title = "Are cognitive control processes reliable?",
abstract = "Recent work on cognitive control focuses on the conflict-monitoring hypothesis, which posits that a performance monitoring mechanism recruits regions in the dorsolateral prefrontal cortex to ensure that goal-directed behavior is optimal. Critical to this theory is that a single performance monitoring mechanism explains a large number of behavioral effects including the sequential congruency effect (SCE) and the error-related slowing (ERS) effect. This leads to the prediction that the size of these effects should correlate across cognitive control tasks. To this end, we conducted three large-scale individual differences experiments to examine whether the SCE and ERS effect are correlated across Simon, Flanker, and Stroop tasks. Across all experiments, the results revealed a correlation for the error-related slowing effect, but not for the sequential congruency effect across tasks. We discuss the implications of these results in regards to the hypothesis that a domain-general performance monitoring mechanism drives both effects.",
keywords = "Cognitive control, Conflict-monitoring, Error-related slowing, Individual differences, Sequential congruency effect",
author = "Whitehead, {Peter S.} and Gene Brewer and Christopher Blais",
note = "Funding Information: A version of this article was accepted by Barrett Honors College at Arizona State University for partial fulfillment PSW{\textquoteright}s undergraduate honors thesis. PSW and CB designed and analyzed the data. PSW collected the data. All authors wrote the article. We{\textquoteright}d like to thank the following research assistants for their time and effort in data collection: Victoria Jacoby, Grace Kennedy, Hayley Lambertus, Nowed Patwary, Candace Rizzi-Wise, and Cameron Robins. This work was partially supported by National Science Foundation Grant 1632291 awarded to GAB. All materials and data from these experiments can be downloaded from our laboratory website asumaclab.com. Funding Information: A version of this article was accepted by Barrett Honors College at Arizona State University for partial fulfillment PSW's undergraduate honors thesis. PSW and CB designed and analyzed the data. PSW collected the data. All authors wrote the article. We'd like to thank the following research assistants for their time and effort in data collection: Victoria Jacoby, Grace Kennedy, Hayley Lambertus, Nowed Patwary, Candace Rizzi-Wise, and Cameron Robins. This work was partially supported by National Science Foundation Grant 1632291 awarded to GAB. All materials and data from these experiments can be downloaded from our laboratory website asumaclab.com. Publisher Copyright: {\textcopyright} 2018 American Psychological Association.",
year = "2019",
month = may,
doi = "10.1037/xlm0000632",
language = "English (US)",
volume = "45",
pages = "765--778",
journal = "Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning Memory and Cognition",
issn = "0278-7393",
publisher = "American Psychological Association Inc.",
number = "5",
}