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The use of controlled processes to resolve cognitive conflict can have various effects on performance in memory tests. There are two theoretical hypotheses in this regard. According to the "competitive" hypothesis, using controlled processes to resolve cognitive conflict will impair a deep stimulus encoding, and consequently its memory. According to the "collaborative" hypothesis, the conflict requiring the use of controlled processes would favour the encoding and subsequent memory performance of the stimuli involved in it. The study's objective is to investigate cognitive conflict effects and interactions (i.e., stimulus and response-level conflict) on memory performance and the role of encoding level in modulating that effect using different paradigms. Specifically, we took into consideration the paradigms often used in studying cognitive conflict effects on performance (i.e., task-switching, and Flanker). The preliminary results suggest that cognitive conflict effects seem to be independent of the level of stimulus processing. The task-switching paradigm seems to nullify both stimulus and response-level conflict effects on memory performance in favour of the effect of stimuli (i.e., target or distractor). To conclude, the further cognitive effort required by the tasks seems to hinder cognitive conflict effects on memory performance.
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