Reward expectation modulates multiple stages of auditory conflict control

Although mounting evidence has shown that reward can improve conflict control in the visual domain, little is known about whether and how reward affects conflict processing in the auditory domain. In the present study, we adopted an auditory Stroop task in which the meaning of a sound word (‘male’ or ‘female’) could be either congruent or incongruent with the gender of the voice (male or female speaker), and the participants were asked to...