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  • Cognitive Psychology
  • Neuroscience

Background:

  • Urgency in cognitive control tasks can impair goal-directed responses when stimulus information conflicts with goals.
  • Previous research primarily used arrow stimuli, leaving the generalizability of urgency effects unclear for other stimulus types.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To investigate whether urgency effects on cognitive control extend to tasks using non-arrow stimuli.
  • To determine if urgency impacts cognitive control more broadly across different task paradigms.

Main Methods:

  • Participants completed three cognitive control tasks: Spatial Stroop (word meaning vs. spatial position), Numerical Stroop (numerical value vs. physical size), and Simon task (color vs. spatial position).
  • Urgency was manipulated to observe its effect on performance in conflict situations within these tasks.

Main Results:

  • Urgency elicited a time window where non-goal-relevant features (position, physical size) dominated responses across all tested tasks.
  • Performance dropped below chance in conflict situations, confirming the detrimental effect of urgency.

Conclusions:

  • The urgency effect on cognitive control is not dependent on arrow stimuli and generalizes to spatial and numerical tasks.
  • Urgency appears to have a more general impact on cognitive control mechanisms, particularly in tasks involving spatial and numerical processing.