RT Journal Article
T1 Cognitive control activity is modulated by the magnitude of interference and pre-activation of monitoring mechanisms
A1 Cespón, Jesús
A1 Galdo Álvarez, Santiago
A1 Díaz Fernández, Fernando
K1 Attention
K1 Cognitive control
AB The Simon task is used to study interference from irrelevant spatial information. Interference is manifested by longer reaction times when the required response –based on non-spatial features- is spatially incompatible with stimulus position. Interference is greater when incompatible trials are preceded by compatible trials (compatible-incompatible sequence) than when they are preceded by incompatible trials (incompatible-incompatible sequence). However, the relationships between spatial attention, interference and cognitive control have not been investigated. In the present study, we distinguished three experimental conditions according to sequential effects: same mappings (SM, compatible-compatible/incompatible-incompatible sequences: low interference), opposite mappings (OM, compatible-incompatible/incompatible-compatible sequences: high interference) and unrelated mappings (UM, central-compatible/central-incompatible sequences: intermediate interference). The negativity central contralateral (N2cc, a correlate of prevention of spatial response tendencies) was larger in OM than in SM, indicating greater cognitive control for greater interference. Furthermore, N2cc was larger in UM than in SM/OM, indicating lower neural efficiency for suppressing spatial tendencies of the response after central trials. Attentional processes (negativity posterior contralateral) were also delayed in UM relative to SM/OM, suggesting attentional facilitation by similar sets of attentional shifts in successive trials. Overall, the present findings showed that cognitive control is modulated by the magnitude of interference and pre-activation of monitoring mechanisms
PB Nature Publishing Group
SN 2045-2322
YR 2016
FD 2016-12-20
LK http://hdl.handle.net/10347/15964
UL http://hdl.handle.net/10347/15964
LA eng
NO Cespón, J., Galdo-Álvarez, S., & Díaz, F. (2016). Cognitive control activity is modulated by the magnitude of interference and pre-activation of monitoring mechanisms. Scientific Reports, 6(1). http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/srep39595
NO his study was funded by the Spanish Government (Ministerio de Economía y Competitividad: PSI2014-55316-C3-3-R), the Galician Government (Consellería de Cultura, Educación e Ordenación Universitaria, Axudas para a consolidación e Estruturación de unidades de investigación competitivas do SUG: GPC2014/047, with FEDER funds and by European Commission (Marie Skłodowska Curie Actions, Individual Fellowships: Grant Reference NIBSAD-655423)
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RD 22 abr 2026