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  • Cognitive psychology
  • Neuroscience
  • Human cognition

Background:

  • Congruency sequence effects (CSEs) suggest cognitive control adapts to trial history.
  • Flexible adjustments in CSEs are often linked to cognitively controlled dynamic modulations.
  • The scope of cognitive control (local vs. global) during simultaneous conflicts remains debated.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To investigate whether cognitive control operates locally or globally when implicit and explicit conflicts coexist.
  • To differentiate the control mechanisms underlying the SNARC and Simon effects.

Main Methods:

  • Combined the implicit Spatial-Numerical Association of Response Codes (SNARC) task with the explicit Simon task.
  • Analyzed congruency effects following congruent and incongruent trials of both task types.

Main Results:

  • Congruency effects for one conflict type (e.g., SNARC) were reduced only after incongruent trials of the same type.
  • No reduction in congruency effects was observed when following an incongruent trial of the other conflict type (e.g., Simon).

Conclusions:

  • Cognitive control mechanisms operate locally, responding specifically to the type of conflict encountered.
  • Implicit (SNARC) and explicit (Simon) conflict resolution engage distinct, independent control processes.
  • These findings challenge global models of cognitive control during simultaneous conflict resolution.