ProjectExFun – Executive functions: Does proactive control depend on amodal representations?

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Acronym:
ExFun
Title:
Executive functions: Does proactive control depend on amodal representations?
Duration:
01/09/2023 to 31/08/2026
Abstract / short description:
A crucial aspect of everyday behavior is our ability to maintain goal-oriented behavior and to switch between controlled and automated processing rather effortlessly. Besides short-term, reactive adjustments to information processing, it is assumed that cognitive control implements also proactive mechanisms to configure the cognitive system in such a way that context-appropriate and efficient performance is achieved. We examine whether proactive control operates on amodal representations (i.e., stimulus-, response-, and task-unspecific). First, in sensorimotor conflict tasks, we investigate cross-modal and cross-task proactive control effects. If amodal representations underlie proactive adjustments, this should lead to domain-general transfer effects, and we plan to dissociate these proactive effects from those triggered by reactive control mechanisms (which appear to depend on more modal representations). A mathematical model will be used to further specify the mechanisms underlying these adjustments as well. Second, we aim to generalize our approach by investigating proactive control adjustments during language processing.
Keywords:
Kognitive Psychologie
Sensomotorik
Sprachverstehen

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Faculty of Science
University of Tübingen
Department of Psychology
Faculty of Science

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Department of Psychology
Faculty of Science
Faculty of Science
University of Tübingen
Department of Psychology
Faculty of Science

Local organizational units

Department of Psychology
Faculty of Science
University of Tübingen

Funders

Bonn, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany
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