Registered Replication Report of Weissman, D. H., Jiang, J., & Egner, T. (2014). Determinants of congruency sequence effects without learning and memory confounds

Gyurkovics, Mate ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4483-3736, Kovacs, Marton, Jaquiery, Matt, Palfi, Bence, Dechterenko, Filip and Aczel, Balazs (2020) Registered Replication Report of Weissman, D. H., Jiang, J., & Egner, T. (2014). Determinants of congruency sequence effects without learning and memory confounds. Attention, Perception, and Psychophysics, 82 (8). pp. 3777-3787. ISSN 1943-3921

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Abstract

The congruency sequence effect (CSE) refers to the finding that the effect of cognitive conflict is smaller following conflicting, incongruent trials than after non-conflicting, congruent trials in conflict tasks, such as the Stroop, Simon, and flanker tasks. This is typically interpreted as an upregulation of cognitive control in response to conflict. Weissman, Jiang, & Egner (2014) investigated whether the CSE appears in these three tasks and a further variant where task-irrelevant distractors precede the target (prime-probe task), in the absence of learning and memory confounds in samples collected online. They found significant CSEs only in the prime-probe and Simon tasks, suggesting that the effect is more robust in tasks where the distractor can be translated into a response faster than the target. In this Registered Replication Report we collected data online from samples approx. 2.5 times larger than in the original study for each of the four tasks to investigate whether the task-related differences in the magnitude of the CSE are replicable (Nmin = 115, Nmax = 130). Our findings extend but do not contradict the original results: Bayesian analyses suggested that the CSE was present in all four tasks in RT but only in the Simon task in accuracy. The size of the effect did not differ between tasks, and the size of the congruency effect was not correlated with the size of the CSE across participants. These findings suggest it might be premature to conclude that the difference in the speed of distractor- vs target-related response activation is a determinant of the size of cross-trial modulations of control. The practical implications of our results for online data collection in cognitive control research are also discussed.

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Additional Information: Funding Information: Balazs Aczel was supported by the János Bolyai Research Fellowship from the Hungarian Academy of Sciences. Bence Palfi is grateful to the Dr Mortimer and Theresa Sackler Foundation which supports the Sackler Centre for Consciousness Science. The work of Filip Dechterenko was partially supported by Czech Science Foundation grant (GA19-07690S) and RVO68081740. Matthew Jaquiery is funded by Medical Sciences Graduate School Studentship Grant Number 17/18_MSD_661552 Publisher Copyright: © 2020, The Author(s).
Uncontrolled Keywords: cognitive control,congruency sequence effect,online data collection,registered replication,experimental and cognitive psychology,language and linguistics,sensory systems,linguistics and language ,/dk/atira/pure/subjectarea/asjc/3200/3205
Faculty \ School: Faculty of Social Sciences > School of Psychology
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Date Deposited: 12 Aug 2024 15:30
Last Modified: 21 Oct 2024 00:53
URI: https://ueaeprints.uea.ac.uk/id/eprint/96195
DOI: 10.3758/s13414-020-02021-2

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