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Transferable Modulation of Cognitive Control: The Cross-Task Role of Conflict Adaptation in Thematic Roles Assignment
Jiefei Luo1, Qi Cheng2, Mengfang Zhang1
1School of Psychology, Northeast Normal University, Changchun 130024, China.
Behavioral Sciences (Basel, Switzerland)
|July 29, 2025
Summary
Cognitive control from non-linguistic tasks, like the Stroop task, enhances sentence comprehension by adapting to conflict. This demonstrates how general cognitive control aids language processing in real-time.
Area of Science:
- Cognitive Psychology
- Neuroscience
- Linguistics
Background:
- Cognitive control systems dynamically modulate information processing after conflict detection.
- A key question is whether non-linguistic task control generalizes to higher-order language processes like sentence comprehension.
Purpose of the Study:
- To investigate cross-task conflict adaptation effects from Stroop tasks on thematic role assignment in Chinese sentence comprehension.
- To examine the temporal dynamics of syntactic processing using eye-tracking.
Main Methods:
- Two experiments using color-word Stroop tasks of varying complexity.
- Participants read Chinese sentences with congruent or conflicting thematic roles after Stroop trials.
- Eye-tracking measured temporal dynamics of syntactic processing and thematic role assignment.
Main Results:
- Both congruent and incongruent Stroop tasks induced cross-task conflict adaptation.
- Thematic role assignment was accelerated, with reduced regressions, when incongruent sentences followed conflict trials.
- More complex Stroop tasks demanded greater cognitive control and showed earlier adaptation effects.
Conclusions:
- Conflict monitoring theory extends to language processing, showing cognitive control aids real-time syntactic parsing.
- Eye-tracking provides detailed evidence for the interaction between domain-general control and language-specific processing during thematic role assignment.
Keywords:
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