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Area of Science:

  • Cognitive Psychology
  • Neuroscience
  • Human Behavior

Background:

  • The dual mechanism of control model proposes proactive and reactive control, but empirical evidence is inconclusive.
  • Previous Stroop task manipulations to assess these mechanisms may confound results with associative learning.
  • Existing solutions to confounds have limitations and practical challenges.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To simultaneously manipulate proactive and reactive control to directly assess their separability.
  • To investigate the independent and interactive contributions of proactive and reactive control to cognitive control.
  • To refine methods for assessing cognitive control mechanisms using the Stroop task.

Main Methods:

  • Two experiments utilized peripheral and perifoveal spatial Stroop tasks.
  • Simultaneous manipulation of list-wide and item-specific proportion congruency (PC) at the trial level.
  • Trial-level multilevel modeling was employed to analyze Stroop effects and control modulations.

Main Results:

  • Compelling evidence supports a list-wide, PC-dependent proactive control mechanism.
  • Proactive control influenced Stroop performance independently of reactive control and confounding factors.
  • An item-specific PC-dependent reactive control effect emerged, but only in interaction with proactive control.

Conclusions:

  • The findings provide strong support for the existence of distinct proactive and reactive control mechanisms.
  • This study clarifies the independent operation of proactive control and its interaction with reactive control.
  • The results enhance understanding of the complex interplay governing cognitive control.