Staying in control
Characterizing the mechanisms underlying cognitive control in high and low arousal states
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Throughout the day, humans show natural fluctuations in arousal that impact cognitive function. To study the behavioural dynamics of cognitive control during high and low arousal states, healthy participants performed an auditory conflict task during high‐intensity physical exercise ( N = 39) or drowsiness ( N = 33). In line with the pre‐registered hypotheses, conflict and conflict adaptation effects were preserved during both altered arousal states. Overall task performance was markedly poorer during low arousal, but not for high arousal. Modelling behavioural dynamics with drift diffusion analysis revealed evidence accumulation and non‐decision time decelerated, and decisional boundaries became wider during low arousal, whereas high arousal was unexpectedly associated with a decrease in the interference of task‐irrelevant information processing. These findings show how arousal differentially modulates cognitive control at both sides of normal alertness, and further validate drowsiness and physical exercise as key experimental models to disentangle the interaction between physiological fluctuations on cognitive dynamics
Alertness · Arousal · Audiology · Cognition · Cognitive psychology · Developmental psychology · Low arousal theory · Task (project management) · Medicine · Neuroscience · Olfactory and Sensory Function Studies · Psychology · Sleep and related disorders · Sleep and Wakefulness Research
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