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| Research article summary (published 30 May 2002): |
Visual attention and word recognition in stroop color naming: is word recognition "automatic"?
Full Abstract
In Stroop color naming, color targets were accompanied by a color word or a color word plus a neutral word that reduces or "dilutes" the Stroop effect. Abrupt-onset cues called the focus of attention to one stimulus or another. Cuing influenced the size of the Stroop effect but never eliminated it. Unlike the Stroop effect itself, Stroop dilution from the neutral word could be eliminated, by cuing the color word. Focusing visual attention on the color word protected it from Stroop dilution; focusing visual attention on the neutral word did not prevent Stroop interference. Thus, spatial attention is a modulator, protecting visual data from crosstalk, but a word need not be the focus of visual attention to be recognized.
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Author information
Author/s: Brown, Tracy L (TL); Gore, Christopher L (CL); Carr, Thomas H (TH);
Affiliation: Department of Psychology, University of North Carolina at Asheville, 28806, USA. tlbrown(-atsign-)unca.edu
Journal and publication information
Publication Type: Comparative Study; Journal Article; Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
Journal: Journal of experimental psychology. General (J Exp Psychol Gen), published in United States. (Language: eng)
Reference: 2002-Jun; vol 131 (issue 2) : pp 220-40
Dates: Created 2002/06/06; Completed 2002/11/26; Revised 2006/11/15;
PMID: 12049241, status: MEDLINE (last retrieval date: 11/6/2008)
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