An individual’s chronotype determines their peak of circadian arousal. Morning chronotypes have their circadian peak in the morning. Evening chronotypes have their circadian peak in the evening. Empirical evidence seems to suggest better performance when controlled cognitive processes are tested on circadian peak in comparison to when they are tested off circadian peak. By contrast, better performance is observed for automatic cognitive processes when they are tested off circadian peak in comparison to when they are tested on circadian peak. Crucially, this line of research mostly relied on separate tasks to assess controlled and automatic cognitive processes which—given separate analysis strategies for the separate tasks—may result in a confirmation bias. Hence, the primary goal of this study was to control for a potential confirmation bias by means of a Continuous Identification with Recognition task which allows to simultaneously assess controlled (i.e., item recognition) and automatic (i.e., repetition priming and fluency) processes for the same stimuli within the same task. Preliminary results based on 160 participants suggest that there is no simultaneous differential influence on controlled and automatic processes as a function of chronotype and time of day. We conclude that current theories in the field may not withstand stricter testing and analysis strategies which simultaneously consider controlled and automatic processes based on the same stimuli within the same task.