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Further Argumentation for Conflict Adaptation Not Being Domain General: Response to Novick et al.

Kuz, Varvara; Cai, Fangzhou; Chen, Keyue; Chen, Jiaxin; Qi, Xuzi; Veall, Clement; Zheng, Yuanqi; ... Santi, Andrea; + view all (2025) Further Argumentation for Conflict Adaptation Not Being Domain General: Response to Novick et al. Languages , 10 (10) , Article 262. 10.3390/languages10100262. Green open access

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Abstract

We agree with the commentary that discrepant results across cross-task conflict adaptation studies are likely explained by methodological differences. Considering additional studies and paradigms, we argue that, collectively, the weight of the evidence suggests conflict adaptation is domain-specific; the exception being the visual world paradigm. Further argumentation is provided for why the visual world paradigm may in fact be showing domain-specific conflict adaptation within visual attentional control. The additional methodological concerns raised in the commentary about our study either do not appear consistently across all of our experiments or we provide further data or argumentation to demonstrate they are in fact not a concern. Our original article did not claim that cognitive control does not apply in language processing, but that a domain-specific account of cognitive control may be feasible and should be explored in future work.

Type: Article
Title: Further Argumentation for Conflict Adaptation Not Being Domain General: Response to Novick et al.
Open access status: An open access version is available from UCL Discovery
DOI: 10.3390/languages10100262
Publisher version: https://doi.org/10.3390/languages10100262
Language: English
Additional information: © 2025 by the Authors. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).
Keywords: cognitive control; garden-path sentences; cross-task conflict adaptation; domain specificity
UCL classification: UCL
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences > Faculty of Brain Sciences
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences > Faculty of Brain Sciences > Div of Psychology and Lang Sciences
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences > Faculty of Brain Sciences > UCL Queen Square Institute of Neurology
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences > Faculty of Brain Sciences > Div of Psychology and Lang Sciences > Linguistics
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences > Faculty of Brain Sciences > UCL Queen Square Institute of Neurology > Clinical and Movement Neurosciences
URI: https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10216812
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