Two experiments examined global and local behavioral adaptation effects within and across the Eriksen task, where conflict is based on stimulus letter identities, and the Simon task, where conflict is based on stimulus and response locations. Trials of the two tasks were randomly intermixed, and the list-wide proportion of congruent trials was varied in both tasks (Experiment 1) or in just one task (Experiment 2). The global adaptation effect of list-wide congruency proportion (LWPC effect) was at least as large in the Simon task as in the Eriksen task. Likewise, the local adaptation effect of previous-trial congruency (Gratton effect) was at least as large in the Simon task as in the Eriksen task. In contrast to prior studies investigating transfer across Stroop and Simon tasks, there was no dissociation between global and local adaptation effects regarding their transfer across the different conflict tasks. In fact, both local and global adaptation effects appeared largely task-specific, because there was no or only little transfer of either Gratton effects or LWPC effects from the Eriksen to the Simon task or vice versa. On the whole, the results suggest that behavioral adaptation observed in the present design does not carry over from one of these tasks to the other, suggesting no involvement of a higher-order, task-general mechanism of cognitive control.

两项实验研究了Eriksen任务内部和整个过程中的全局和局部行为适应效果，其中冲突基于刺激字母身份，Simon任务则基于刺激和响应位置。这两项任务的试验是随机混合的，并且在两项任务（实验1）或仅一项任务（实验2）中，全等试验的整个清单比例有所不同。在Simon任务中，列表范围一致性比例的全局适应效应（LWPC效应）至少与在Eriksen任务中一样大。同样，在Simon任务中，先前尝试的一致性的局部适应效果（格拉顿效应）至少与在Eriksen任务中一样。与先前研究跨Stroop和Simon任务转移的研究相反，关于全球和地方适应效应在不同冲突任务之间的转移，它们之间没有任何关联。实际上，局部和全局适应效应都似乎主要针对特定​​任务，因为格拉顿效应或LWPC效应从埃里克森没有转移到西蒙任务，或者反之亦然。总体而言，结果表明在本设计中观察到的行为适应不会从这些任务之一转移到另一任务，这表明没有参与认知控制的更高阶，任务一般的机制。因为没有或只有极少的Gratton效果或LWPC效果从Eriksen转移到Simon任务，反之亦然。总体而言，结果表明在本设计中观察到的行为适应不会从这些任务之一转移到另一任务，这表明没有参与认知控制的更高阶，任务一般的机制。因为没有或只有极少的Gratton效果或LWPC效果从Eriksen转移到Simon任务，反之亦然。总体而言，结果表明在本设计中观察到的行为适应不会从这些任务之一转移到另一任务，这表明没有参与认知控制的更高阶，任务一般的机制。