- Title
- Independent race of colour and word can predict the Stroop effect
- Creator
- Eidels, Ami
- Relation
- ARC.DP110100234A
- Relation
- Australian Journal of Psychology Vol. 64, Issue 4, p. 189-198
- Publisher Link
- http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1742-9536.2012.00052.x
- Publisher
- John Wiley & Sons
- Resource Type
- journal article
- Date
- 2012
- Description
- Mainstream theories of the Stroop effect suggest that faster colour classification on congruent trials (say, the word RED printed in red colour) relative to incongruent trials (GREEN in red) is due to channel interaction. Namely, information from the irrelevant word channel perturbs processing of the print colour, causing in turn slower processing of incongruent displays. In this note, I advance a new model in which colour and word are processed in parallel and completely independent channels. The Stroop effect is then the outcome of signal redundancy in congruent displays, where both colour and word contribute to the same response. Numerical computations show that the model can produce the Stroop effect (along with high accuracy rates) for a subset of parameter values. Thus, it provides a proof of existence for a separate channel theory, and a challenge to many existing theories.
- Subject
- independent channels; modelling; redundant-target effect; Stroop
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/1311675
- Identifier
- uon:22261
- Identifier
- ISSN:1742-9536
- Rights
- This is the peer reviewed version of the following article: Eidels, Ami “Independent race of colour and word can predict the Stroop effect” Originally published in Australian Journal of Psychology Vol. 64, Issue 4, p. 189-198 (2012), which has been published in final form at http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1742-9536.2012.00052.x. This article may be used for non-commercial purposes in accordance with Wiley Terms and Conditions for Self-Archiving.
- Language
- eng
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