Goal-referenced selection of verbal action: modeling attentional control in the Stroop task.

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This article presents a new account of the color-word Stroop phenomenon (J. R. Stroop, 1935) based on an implemented model of word production, WEAVER++ (W. J. M. Levelt, A. Roelofs, & A. S. Meyer, 1999b; A. Roelofs, 1992, 1997c). Stroop effects are claimed to arise from processing interactions within the language-production architecture and explicit goal-referenced control. WEAVER++ successfully simulates 16 classic data sets, mostly taken from the review by C. M. MacLeod (1991), including incongruency, congruency, reverse-Stroop, response-set, semantic-gradient, time-course, stimulus, spatial, multiple-task, manual, bilingual, training, age, and pathological effects. Three new experiments tested the account against alternative explanations. It is shown that WEAVER++ offers a more satisfactory account of the data than other models.

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Author/s: Roelofs, Ardi (A);

Affiliation: Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics, Nijmegen, the Netherlands. ardi@mpi.nl

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Publication Type: Journal Article

Journal: Psychological review (Psychol Rev), published in United States. (Language: eng)

Reference: 2003-Jan; vol 110 (issue 1) : pp 88-125

Dates: Created 2003/01/16; Completed 2003/02/14; Revised 2004/11/17;

PMID: 12529058, status: MEDLINE (last retrieval date: 11/6/2008)

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