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  • Cognitive Psychology
  • Neuroscience
  • Experimental Psychology

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  • Attentional control is crucial for managing conflicting information.
  • The Stroop paradigm demonstrates how response speed and accuracy are impaired by task-irrelevant stimuli.
  • Proportion congruent and context-specific proportion congruent (CSPC) effects are typically used to study conflict adaptation.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To investigate potential confounds from contingency learning in context-specific proportion congruent (CSPC) effects.
  • To determine if CSPC effects genuinely reflect context-specific attentional control.
  • To re-evaluate the utility of CSPC effects in understanding attentional control mechanisms.

Main Methods:

  • Two experiments employing variants of a dissociation procedure were conducted.
  • The font variant of the CSPC procedure was utilized.
  • Participants completed tasks designed to isolate contingency learning from context-specific control.

Main Results:

  • Robust contingency learning effects were observed in both experiments.
  • No evidence supporting context-specific attentional control was found.
  • Results trended against the expected context-specific control, indicating alternative explanations.

Conclusions:

  • Contingency learning, rather than context-specific attentional control, appears to drive CSPC effects.
  • The findings question the validity of CSPC effects as a measure of attentional control.
  • Further research is needed to refine methods for studying attentional control in the presence of learning confounds.