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Examining Bilingual Language Control Using the Stroop Task
Published on: February 26, 2020
The Stroop phenomenon and its use in the stlldy of perceptual, cognitive, and response processes
1E.vperlmental Psychology Diriston, U.S. Army Medical Research Laboratory, Fort Knox, 40121, Kentucky.
Abstract:
The present review summarizes empirical findings and theoretical views related to the Stroop color-word test. Lyperimental findings were emphasized in contrast to the results of correlational studies, and the bulk of the material was produced since the 1966 review of Jensen and Rohwer. One purpose of the review was to illustrate use of the Stroop paradigm as a too! for the stud)' of other psychological processes. The incompleteness, and in some cases the mappropnateness, of existing explanatisons of the Stroop phenomenon also were discussed. nt]mis|The author is grateful to E. C. Dalrymple-Alford. George S. Harker, and Anne Treisman for their comments on an earlier draft of the paper.
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