@article{ref1,
title="Is conflict adaptation due to active regulation or passive carry-over? Evidence from eye movements",
journal="Journal of experimental psychology: learning, memory, and cognition",
year="2016",
author="Hubbard, Jason and Kuhns, David and Schäfer, Theo A. J. and Mayr, Ulrich",
volume="43",
number="3",
pages="385-393",
abstract="Conflict-adaptation effects (i.e., reduced response-time costs on high-conflict trials following high-conflict trials) supposedly represent our cognitive system's ability to regulate itself according to current processing demands. However, currently it is not clear whether these effects reflect conflict-triggered, active regulation, or passive carry-over of previous-trial control settings. We used eye movements to examine whether the degree of conflict modulates conflict-adaptation effects, as the conflict-triggered regulation view predicts. Across 2 experiments in which participants had to identify a target stimulus based on an endogenous cue while-on conflict trials-having to resist a sudden-onset distractor, we found a clear indication of conflict adaptation. This adaptation effect disappeared however, when participants inadvertently fixated the sudden-onset distractor on the previous trial-that is, when they experienced a high degree of conflict. This pattern of results suggests that conflict adaptation can be explained parsimoniously in terms of a broader memory process that retains recently adopted control settings across trials. (PsycINFO Database Record<br><br>(c) 2016 APA, all rights reserved).<p /> <p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="0278-7393",
doi="10.1037/xlm0000306",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1037/xlm0000306"
}