Testing the domain-general nature of monitoring in the spatial and verbal cognitive domains.

ABSTRACT: While it is well-established that monitoring the environment for the occurrence of relevant events represents a key executive function, it is still unclear whether such a function is mediated by domain-general or domain-specific mechanisms. We investigated this issue by combining event-related potentials (ERPs) with a behavioral paradigm in which monitoring processes (non-monitoring vs. monitoring) and cognitive domains (spatial vs. verbal) were orthogonally manipulated in the same group of participants. They had to categorize 3-dimensional visually presented words on the basis of either spatial or verbal rules. In monitoring blocks, they additionally had to check whether the word displayed a specific spatial configuration or whether it contained a certain consonant. The behavioral results

SUBMITTER: Capizzi M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5010042 | biostudies-literature | 2016 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature