Stroop effect
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effect of psychological interference on reaction time
Key facts
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Research
9,137 papers- The Stroop effect: An activation likelihood estimation meta-analysis in healthy young adults.Neuroscience letters · 2020
- The Stroop effect and mental imagery.Perception · 2024
- Does body posture reduce the Stroop effect? Evidence from two conceptual replications and a meta-analysis.Acta psychologica · 2022
- The Stroop effect involves an excitatory-inhibitory fronto-cerebellar loop.Nature communications · 2023
- Does Posture Influence the Stroop Effect?Psychological science · 2020
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Encyclopedic overview
Naming the font color of a word is a slower and more difficult task if word and font color are mismatched (top) than if word and font color are unrelated (bottom). In psychology, the Stroop effect is the delay in reaction time between neutral and incongruent stimuli.
The effect has been used to create a psychological test (the Stroop test) that is widely used in clinical practice and investigation.
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