{"pk":28823,"title":"Decomposing Individual Differences in Cognitive Control:A Model-Based Approach","subtitle":null,"abstract":"Researchers have long been interested in using laboratory mea-sures of cognitive control to predict a person’s cognitive con-trol/self control success outside the lab. We used a computa-tional approach to identify which lab-based performance mea-sures provide the most valid individual difference measuresof one’s ability and/or motivation to exert cognitive control.We simulated performance across an array of cognitive controltasks, and estimated the degree to which different performancemetrics (e.g., congruency effects, conflict adaptation, and de-mand avoidance) could theoretically provide valid estimatesof processes underlying control allocation. By performing di-mension reduction on these performance metrics, we furtherrevealed latent dimensions that can index separate mechanismsof control-demanding behavior. Our results suggest that indi-vidual differences in measures of cognitive control can orig-inate from multiple factors, several of which are unrelated tocapacity for cognitive control. We conclude by discussing im-plications of these analyses for assessing individual differencesin cognitive control phenomena.","language":"eng","license":{"name":"","short_name":"","text":null,"url":""},"keywords":[{"word":"individual differences; cognitive control; motiva-tion; self-control"}],"section":"Papers with Poster Presentations","is_remote":true,"remote_url":"https://escholarship.org/uc/item/95f995wb","frozenauthors":[{"first_name":"Sebastian","middle_name":"","last_name":"Musslick","name_suffix":"","institution":"Princeton University","department":""},{"first_name":"Jonathan","middle_name":"D.","last_name":"Cohen","name_suffix":"","institution":"Princeton University","department":""},{"first_name":"Amitai","middle_name":"","last_name":"Shenhav","name_suffix":"","institution":"Brown University","department":""}],"date_submitted":null,"date_accepted":null,"date_published":"2019-01-01T18:00:00Z","render_galley":null,"galleys":[{"label":"PDF","type":"pdf","path":"https://journalpub.escholarship.org/cognitivesciencesociety/article/28823/galley/18694/download/"}]}