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  "abstract": "Cognitive aging is often associated with increased Stroop interference, but it remains unclear whether this reflects a broad decline in inhibitory control or selective impairments in specific conflict-resolution mechanisms. The present study examined age-related differences in task conflict, semantic conflict, and response conflict using a low-cognitive-control Stroop paradigm designed to amplify conflict effects. Younger and older adults completed a manual color-identification task including neutral shapes, neutral words, color-associated words, non-response-set incongruent color words, and response-set incongruent color words. This design allowed us to dissociate response conflict, two components of semantic conflict, and task conflict within a single paradigm. Older adults showed larger response conflict than younger adults, along with modest age-related increases in both semantic relevance and semantic relatedness. In contrast, task conflict did not differ between age groups. These results suggest that age-related increases in Stroop interference are not best explained by a single global inhibitory deficit. Rather, under the present manual-response, reduced-control conditions, older adults showed greater semantic and response-level conflict, whereas task conflict remained comparable across age groups. This dissociation is consistent with a more fine-grained account of cognitive control in aging.",
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  "affiliations": [
    "Department of Psychology, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Mt. Scopus, Jerusalem, 91905, Israel. Eldad.Keha@mail.huji.ac.il.",
    "Department of Social and Health Sciences, Bar-Ilan University, Ramat Gan, Israel. Eldad.Keha@mail.huji.ac.il.",
    "Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences, Washington University in Saint Louis, St. Louis, Missouri, USA. Eldad.Keha@mail.huji.ac.il.",
    "Université de Rouen Normandie, Centre de Recherche sur les Fonctionnements et Dysfonctionnements Psychologiques, Mont-Saint-Aignan, France.",
    "Université Clermont Auvergne, CNRS, LAPSCO, Clermont-Ferrand, France.",
    "Department of Psychology, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Mt. Scopus, Jerusalem, 91905, Israel."
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  "pdf_url": "https://europepmc.org/articles/PMC13675143?pdf=render",
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  "published": "2026-10-16",
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  "title": "Dissociating task, semantic, and response conflict in cognitive aging: evidence from a low-cognitive control Stroop paradigm.",
  "title_text": "Dissociating task, semantic, and response conflict in cognitive aging: evidence from a low-cognitive control Stroop paradigm.",
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