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Background:

  • Executive functions are increasingly recognized for their role in semantic memory retrieval.
  • The precise mechanisms underlying this interaction, however, remain unclear.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To investigate how distinct executive control capacities influence automatic and controlled semantic memory retrieval.
  • To elucidate the specific roles of working memory, monitoring, and switching in accessing and inhibiting semantic information.

Main Methods:

  • Two dual-task experiments were designed, manipulating executive load (working memory, monitoring, switching).
  • Participants performed automatic (free-associative) and controlled (dissociative) word retrieval tasks under these varying loads.

Main Results:

  • Executive load impaired retrieval fluency in both automatic and controlled tasks.
  • These impairments were more significant for controlled (dissociative) retrieval.
  • Processing costs for retrieval inhibition and switching were negatively correlated.

Conclusions:

  • Domain-general executive control facilitates accessing relevant semantic knowledge and inhibiting irrelevant activations.
  • A trade-off exists between semantic inhibition and set-switching, indicating complementary control mechanisms.
  • These findings suggest adaptive gating and interference control as key executive functions in semantic memory retrieval.