Dreisbach, Gesine and Fischer, Rico (2015) Conflicts as Aversive Signals for Control Adaptation. CURRENT DIRECTIONS IN PSYCHOLOGICAL SCIENCE, 24 (4). pp. 255-260. ISSN 0963-7214, 1467-8721
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The dynamic adaptation of cognitive control in the face of competition from conflicting response tendencies is one of the hallmarks of flexible human action control. Here, we suggest an alternative framework that places conflict-triggered control adaptation into the broader context of affect regulation. Specifically, we review evidence showing that (a) conflicts are inherently aversive, that (b) aversive stimuli in the absence of conflict also trigger behavioral adjustments, and, finally, that (c) conflict stimuli do trigger processes of affective counter-regulation. Together with recent findings showing that conflict-triggered control adaptation depends on the subjective experience of the conflict, we suggest that it is the subjective aversive conflict experience that originally motivates control adaptations. Such a view offers new perspectives for investigating and understanding intra- and interindividual differences in the regulation of cognitive control by differentiating between the individual sensitivity to experience and the individual ability to utilize the aversive signal.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Uncontrolled Keywords: | COGNITIVE-CONTROL; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; CINGULATE CORTEX; ADJUSTMENTS; ACTIVATION; REWARD; TASK; response conflict; conflict monitoring; aversive signal; cognitive control; affective counter-regulation |
| Subjects: | 100 Philosophy & psychology > 150 Psychology |
| Divisions: | Psychology and Pedagogy > Institut für Psychologie > Lehrstuhl für Psychologie II (Allgemeine und Angewandte Psychologie) - Prof. Dr. Gesine Dreisbach |
| Depositing User: | Dr. Gernot Deinzer |
| Date Deposited: | 19 Jun 2019 09:18 |
| Last Modified: | 19 Jun 2019 09:18 |
| URI: | https://pred.uni-regensburg.de/id/eprint/5095 |
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