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Women show greater distractor interference in a semantic flanker task, suggesting deeper word processing and increased conflict monitoring compared to men. This highlights sex differences in cognitive control.

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Area of Science:

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Human Behavior

Background:

Sex differences exist in susceptibility to irrelevant distractors.
Increasing perceptual load generally reduces distractor interference.

Purpose of the Study:

To investigate sex differences in distractor interference under varying perceptual loads.
To examine the role of congruency and perceptual load in a semantic flanker task.

Main Methods:

A semantic flanker task with congruent/incongruent distractors.
Manipulated perceptual load by presenting normal vs. transposed target words.
Measured response times and congruency effects in men and women.

Main Results:

Women exhibited a larger congruency effect than men.
Perceptual load (transposed words) equally slowed responses for both sexes.
Flanker effect magnitude correlated with task difficulty in men, but not women.

Conclusions:

Women may engage in deeper semantic processing and more conflict monitoring than men.
Findings suggest sex-based differences in cognitive control mechanisms during attention tasks.