Dissertation/ Thesis

Waves of Control: Surfing Behavioral and EEG Uni/Multivariate Signatures to Map Proactive and Reactive Control

التفاصيل البيبلوغرافية
العنوان: Waves of Control: Surfing Behavioral and EEG Uni/Multivariate Signatures to Map Proactive and Reactive Control
المؤلفون: VIVIANI, GIADA
المساهمون: Viviani, Giada, AMBROSINI, ETTORE
بيانات النشر: Università degli studi di Padova
سنة النشر: 2024
المجموعة: Padua Research Archive (IRIS - Università degli Studi di Padova)
مصطلحات موضوعية: Settore M-PSI/02 - Psicobiologia e Psicologia Fisiologica
الوصف: The overarching aim of this thesis was to explore cognitive control, a multifaceted construct. As outlined in the introduction (Chapter 1), this pursuit was not devoid of challenges, given the inherent complexity of cognitive control. Our research was guided by the Dual Mechanisms of Control (DMC) model, which highlights qualitative differences in control mechanisms rather than treating control as a single entity. Within this framework, we explored proactive and reactive control, for which evidence is still controversial about both their separability and signatures. To achieve this aim, we first laid the foundation of our work, emphasizing the importance of methodological (and statistical) rigor to effectively investigate cognitive control using the influential and widely used Stroop task. This not only marked the inception and fundamental tool for pursuing our goal but also emerged as a key aspect of the entire thesis, potentially extending its contribution beyond its main aim. We indeed started our research journey by performing a methodological review focused on the measurement validity of the Stroop effects, providing researchers using this conflict task with clear methodological criteria (Chapter 2). This served us to design spatial Stroop tasks satisfying the criteria for yielding valid measures of Stroop performance, which were tested and validated in a behavioral study using multilevel modeling to obtain more precise and reliable Stroop measures (Chapter 3). These methodological and statistical novelties, in turn, formed the foundation for our exploration of proactive and reactive control using a multimethod approach, combining behavioral and electrophysiological (EEG) investigations and then trying to bridge behavioral and EEG evidence. We thus proposed a novel approach to manipulate the proxies of proactive and reactive control (LWPC and ISPC) simultaneously and at the trial level. The results of a two-experiment behavioral study suggested that our approach was indeed effective to explore more directly ...
نوع الوثيقة: doctoral or postdoctoral thesis
اللغة: English
Relation: https://hdl.handle.net/11577/3511040
الاتاحة: https://hdl.handle.net/11577/3511040
Rights: info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess
رقم الانضمام: edsbas.B26EA3DD
قاعدة البيانات: BASE