PMID- 36533050
OWN - NLM
STAT- PubMed-not-MEDLINE
LR  - 20221222
IS  - 1664-1078 (Print)
IS  - 1664-1078 (Electronic)
IS  - 1664-1078 (Linking)
VI  - 13
DP  - 2022
TI  - Well under control: Control demand changes are sufficient for metacontrol.
PG  - 1032304
LID - 10.3389/fpsyg.2022.1032304 [doi]
LID - 1032304
AB  - Metacontrol arises from the efficient retrieval of cognitive control by 
      environmental cues that are predictive of the upcoming control demands. Previous 
      studies have demonstrated that proactive and reactive metacontrol can be indexed 
      by a list-wide switch probability (LWSP) and an item-specific switch probability 
      (ISSP) effect, respectively. However, what triggers metacontrol in the first 
      place has not been clearly articulated. While a "mere-experience" hypothesis 
      attributes metacontrol to changes in control demands, an "affective-signaling" 
      hypothesis suggests that high control demands are aversive and aversiveness 
      drives metacontrol. In two experiments, we adjudicated between these hypotheses 
      by considering the modes of metacontrol (proactive vs. reactive) and temporal 
      dynamics of background valence (sustained vs. transient and positive vs. 
      negative). We induced metacontrol (proactive or reactive) in a task-switching 
      paradigm and created background valence by using positive and negative images as 
      stimuli. With valence being an irrelevant aspect of the task, the design allows 
      us to test whether (task-irrelevant) background valence would modulate 
      metacontrol. While we were able to replicate the LWSP effect in Experiment 1 and 
      the ISSP effect in Experiment 2, we did not find valence modulating either 
      effect, regardless of the background valence being a sustained (Experiment 1) or 
      a transient one (Experiment 2). These findings together suggest that negative 
      valence (i.e., aversiveness) does not necessarily benefit metacontrol, and 
      control demand variations are sufficient to induce metacontrol.
CI  - Copyright (c) 2022 Kang and Yu-Chin.
FAU - Kang, Moon Sun
AU  - Kang MS
AD  - Department of Psychological Sciences, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN, 
      United States.
FAU - Yu-Chin, Chiu
AU  - Yu-Chin C
AD  - Department of Psychological Sciences, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN, 
      United States.
LA  - eng
PT  - Journal Article
DEP - 20221201
PL  - Switzerland
TA  - Front Psychol
JT  - Frontiers in psychology
JID - 101550902
PMC - PMC9753698
OTO - NOTNLM
OT  - Metacontrol
OT  - affective processing
OT  - cognitive control
OT  - control adaptation
OT  - emotion
COIS- The authors declare that the research was conducted in the absence of any 
      commercial or financial relationships that could be construed as a potential 
      conflict of interest.
EDAT- 2022/12/20 06:00
MHDA- 2022/12/20 06:01
PMCR- 2022/12/01
CRDT- 2022/12/19 04:27
PHST- 2022/08/30 00:00 [received]
PHST- 2022/11/04 00:00 [accepted]
PHST- 2022/12/19 04:27 [entrez]
PHST- 2022/12/20 06:00 [pubmed]
PHST- 2022/12/20 06:01 [medline]
PHST- 2022/12/01 00:00 [pmc-release]
AID - 10.3389/fpsyg.2022.1032304 [doi]
PST - epublish
SO  - Front Psychol. 2022 Dec 1;13:1032304. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2022.1032304. 
      eCollection 2022.