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  • Neuroscience
  • Human behavior

Background:

  • Cognitive control is crucial for efficient task performance.
  • Traditional theories suggest cognitive control is a relatively slow process.
  • The temporal dynamics of cognitive control implementation remain debated.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To investigate the time course of cognitive control.
  • To determine if cognitive control can be implemented rapidly.
  • To challenge the notion that cognitive control is exclusively slow.

Main Methods:

  • Two experiments using a visual discrimination paradigm.
  • Presentation of a reward cue at variable intervals before target onset.
  • Reward manipulation orthogonal to response to isolate cognitive control effects.

Main Results:

  • Reward cues significantly and rapidly improved task performance.
  • The observed reward effect was attributed to fast cognitive control, not automatic associations.
  • Reward cues lost their effectiveness when presented after target onset, during task execution.

Conclusions:

  • Cognitive control can be implemented rapidly, contradicting slower-paced models.
  • The temporal window for effective cognitive control implementation is limited.
  • Findings provide empirical temporal limits for rapid cognitive control.