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Conflict adaptation, the ability to adjust attention to changing demands, showed no link between key press and mouse movement responses. This suggests response-specific processes, not domain-general ones, are key.

Keywords:

Cognitive control Item-specific proportion congruency Mouse tracking Response modalities Stroop task

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Background:

Conflict adaptation allows goal-directed behavior by modulating attention to situational demands.
Previous research shows conflict adaptation effects across different response modalities, but the underlying mechanisms remain unclear.
It is debated whether these effects stem from domain-general control or response-specific processes.

Purpose of the Study:

To investigate if conflict adaptation effects are related across different response modalities using an individual-differences approach.
To determine whether the item-specific proportion congruency (ISPC) effect, an indicator of conflict adaptation, is domain-general or response-specific.

Main Methods:

Participants completed two versions of the Stroop task, one with key press responses and one with mouse movement responses.
The item-specific proportion congruency (ISPC) effect was measured by manipulating the proportion of congruent trials (80% vs. 20%).
Individual differences in ISPC effects between the two response modalities were analyzed.

Main Results:

The item-specific proportion congruency (ISPC) effect, indicative of conflict adaptation, was observed in both key press and mouse movement tasks.
No significant relationship was found between individual differences in ISPC effects across the two response modalities.
This indicates that conflict adaptation mechanisms may be response-specific rather than domain-general.

Conclusions:

Conflict adaptation effects are not consistently related across different response modalities, suggesting response-specific processes.
Response modality plays an integral role in cognitive control and conflict adaptation, challenging domain-general models.
Findings support contingency learning and associative learning models of cognitive control.