Groundhog Day is better for your homework: We adapt to attentional conflict but only if nothing changes

Many stimuli give rise to attentional conflict. In the laboratory, the famous Stroop task involves naming the color ink of color words, and performance is slowed when "red" is written in blue. If this conflict persists, we tend to adapt to it and the cost of conflict is reduced. Recent research shows that this reduction in conflict cost is eliminated if surface features of the task change.
Source: Psychonomic Society News - Category: Neuroscience Source Type: news