AUTHOR=Dreisbach Gesine , Fischer Rico TITLE=The role of affect and reward in the conflict-triggered adjustment of cognitive control JOURNAL=Frontiers in Human Neuroscience VOLUME=6 YEAR=2012 URL=https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/human-neuroscience/articles/10.3389/fnhum.2012.00342 DOI=10.3389/fnhum.2012.00342 ISSN=1662-5161 ABSTRACT=
Adapting to changing task demands is one of the hallmarks of human cognition. According to an influential theory, the conflict monitoring theory, the adaptation of information processing occurs in a context-sensitive manner in that conflicts signal the need for control recruitment. Starting from the conflict monitoring theory, here the authors discuss the role of affect in the context of conflict-triggered processing adjustments from three different perspectives: (1) the affective value of conflict