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Area of Science:

  • Cognitive psychology
  • Neuroscience
  • Human behavior

Background:

  • Cognitive control manages response conflicts.
  • Debate exists on whether control is unitary or modular.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To investigate if cognitive control is a unified system or composed of independent subsystems.
  • To differentiate conflict processing for consciously and nonconsciously perceived information.

Main Methods:

  • Employed a fully factorial hybrid prime-Simon task.
  • Manipulated prime perception (conscious vs. nonconscious) and conflict type (within vs. across stimulus domains).
  • Analyzed conflict effects within and across trials.

Main Results:

  • Nonconscious information triggered within-trial control but not across-trial modulation.
  • Evidence supports separate subsystems for different conflict domains.
  • Observed interactions attributed to a reactivation aversion effect (RAE).

Conclusions:

  • Cognitive control likely involves domain-specific subsystems.
  • Distinction in control mechanisms for conscious and nonconscious stimuli.
  • RAE influences response selection after conflict resolution.