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Is conflict monitoring supramodal? Spatiotemporal dynamics of cognitive control processes in an auditory Stroop task.

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Donohue, SE; Liotti, M; Perez, R; Woldorff, MG
Published in: Cogn Affect Behav Neurosci
March 2012

The electrophysiological correlates of conflict processing and cognitive control have been well characterized for the visual modality in paradigms such as the Stroop task. Much less is known about corresponding processes in the auditory modality. Here, electroencephalographic recordings of brain activity were measured during an auditory Stroop task, using three different forms of behavioral response (overt verbal, covert verbal, and manual), that closely paralleled our previous visual Stroop study. As was expected, behavioral responses were slower and less accurate for incongruent than for congruent trials. Neurally, incongruent trials showed an enhanced fronto-central negative polarity wave (N(inc)), similar to the N450 in visual Stroop tasks, with similar variations as a function of behavioral response mode, but peaking ~150 ms earlier, followed by an enhanced positive posterior wave. In addition, sequential behavioral and neural effects were observed that supported the conflict-monitoring and cognitive adjustment hypothesis. Thus, while some aspects of the conflict detection processes, such as timing, may be modality dependent, the general mechanisms would appear to be supramodal.

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Cogn Affect Behav Neurosci

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1531-135X

Publication Date

March 2012

Volume

12

Issue

1

Start / End Page

1 / 15

Location

United States

Related Subject Headings

  • Young Adult
  • Time Factors
  • Statistics as Topic
  • Reaction Time
  • Pitch Perception
  • Neuropsychological Tests
  • Models, Neurological
  • Middle Aged
  • Mental Processes
  • Male
 

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Donohue, S. E., Liotti, M., Perez, R., & Woldorff, M. G. (2012). Is conflict monitoring supramodal? Spatiotemporal dynamics of cognitive control processes in an auditory Stroop task. Cogn Affect Behav Neurosci, 12(1), 1–15. https://doi.org/10.3758/s13415-011-0060-z
Donohue, Sarah E., Mario Liotti, Ricardo Perez, and Marty G. Woldorff. “Is conflict monitoring supramodal? Spatiotemporal dynamics of cognitive control processes in an auditory Stroop task.Cogn Affect Behav Neurosci 12, no. 1 (March 2012): 1–15. https://doi.org/10.3758/s13415-011-0060-z.
Donohue SE, Liotti M, Perez R, Woldorff MG. Is conflict monitoring supramodal? Spatiotemporal dynamics of cognitive control processes in an auditory Stroop task. Cogn Affect Behav Neurosci. 2012 Mar;12(1):1–15.
Donohue, Sarah E., et al. “Is conflict monitoring supramodal? Spatiotemporal dynamics of cognitive control processes in an auditory Stroop task.Cogn Affect Behav Neurosci, vol. 12, no. 1, Mar. 2012, pp. 1–15. Pubmed, doi:10.3758/s13415-011-0060-z.
Donohue SE, Liotti M, Perez R, Woldorff MG. Is conflict monitoring supramodal? Spatiotemporal dynamics of cognitive control processes in an auditory Stroop task. Cogn Affect Behav Neurosci. 2012 Mar;12(1):1–15.
Journal cover image

Published In

Cogn Affect Behav Neurosci

DOI

EISSN

1531-135X

Publication Date

March 2012

Volume

12

Issue

1

Start / End Page

1 / 15

Location

United States

Related Subject Headings

  • Young Adult
  • Time Factors
  • Statistics as Topic
  • Reaction Time
  • Pitch Perception
  • Neuropsychological Tests
  • Models, Neurological
  • Middle Aged
  • Mental Processes
  • Male