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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2021 May 18.
Published in final edited form as: Curr Biol. 2020 Apr 9;30(10):1881–1892.e3. doi: 10.1016/j.cub.2020.03.028

Figure 2. Cognitive control task manipulated temporal and contextual axes.

Figure 2.

A) Basic task structure. Participants saw letters drawn from the word “TABLET”. Participants were cued to certain sub-tasks by changing shapes. B) The cognitive control task manipulated two main task aspects (high or low schematic control – requiring participants to keep past information in mind to influence future behavior; high or low contextual control – requiring participants to pay attention to changing task cues). C) On verbal trials, the letters were relevant, while on spatial trials, the locations were relevant. Letters appeared along points of a star in spatial trials. (D) Each condition was made up of sub-tasks (restart condition shown here). The trial following a sub-task, when participants returned to the original task, was dubbed a “return trial”.