ABSTRACT

The ability to control behavior is one of the most important assets of human beings in order to accommodate to changes in their environment and to arrive at goals or desired states of the world. Human control processes serve a primary function of maintaining attention in the face of distracters and adapting behavior in the face of obstacles (Miller & Cohen, 2001). Understanding how these control processes actually work is important; correspondingly, much theoretical and empirical research has been devoted to this issue. Several questions have been addressed in the literature, and these questions have focused on various levels of analysis.