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Area of Science:

  • Cognitive Neuroscience
  • Psychology
  • Neuroscience

Background:

  • Adaptive control in selective attention is a rapidly growing research area.
  • Existing literature is complex, with potential confounds complicating study designs.
  • New researchers face challenges navigating this field and designing effective studies.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To provide a consensus view for measuring adaptive control in selective attention tasks.
  • To guide researchers in minimizing confounds when assessing key adaptive control indices.
  • To simplify the design of studies investigating cognitive control.

Main Methods:

  • The study synthesizes a consensus among theorists with differing views.
  • It focuses on four hallmark indices of adaptive control.
  • Methods emphasize minimizing common and easily overlooked confounds in task design.

Main Results:

  • A clear framework is presented for measuring adaptive control.
  • The consensus addresses the congruency sequence effect.
  • Guidelines are provided for measuring list-wide, context-specific, and item-specific proportion congruency effects.

Conclusions:

  • Researchers can now more easily measure adaptive control indices.
  • This consensus facilitates more robust and reliable empirical research.
  • The findings aim to improve study designs and reduce methodological complexity.