Abstract
The flexible adaptation to changes in the environment is one important feature of intelligent behaviour and is associated with the ability to efficiently control one's own processing. Cognitive control refers to the ability to guide thoughts and actions in accord with internal task goals. Controlling one's own behaviour is particularly required in situations that involve the flexible switching between multiple tasks, the selection and maintenance of task-relevant and the inhibition of taskirrelevant information, as well as the monitoring of error and conflict information (e.g. [22, 42, 47]).
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This research was supported by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (grant SFB 378, EM 2). We wish to thank Oliver John and Barbara Mock for their support during data collection and Axel Mecklinger for very helpful comments.
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Kray, J., Eppinger, B. (2010). An ERP-Approach to Study Age Differences in Cognitive Control Processes. In: Crocker, M., Siekmann, J. (eds) Resource-Adaptive Cognitive Processes. Cognitive Technologies. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-89408-7_5
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