The Stroop Effect from a Mixture of Reading Processes: A Fixed-point Analysis

Gabriel Tillman, Zachary L Howard, Paul M. Garrett, Ami Eidels

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Abstract

For the last 80 years, the Stroop task has been used to test theories of attention and cognitive control and it has been applied in many clinical settings. Most theories posit that the overwhelming power of written words overcomes strict instructions to focus on print color and ignore the word. Recent evidence suggests that trials in the Stroop task could in fact be a mixture of reading trials and non-reading trials. Here we conduct a critical test of this mixture hypothesis, where a mixture of processes should satisfy the fixed-point property (Falmagne,1968).
Original languageEnglish
Title of host publication39th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society (CogSci 2017)
Subtitle of host publicationComputational Foundations of Cognition
Place of PublicationUSA
PublisherCognitive Science Society
Pages3338-3343
Number of pages6
Volume1
ISBN (Electronic)9780991196760
ISBN (Print)9781510846616
Publication statusPublished - 2017
Externally publishedYes
Event39th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society: Computational Foundations of Cognition - London, United Kingdom
Duration: 26 Jul 201729 Jul 2017

Publication series

NameCogSci 2017 - Proceedings of the 39th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society: Computational Foundations of Cognition

Conference

Conference39th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society
Abbreviated titleCogSci 2017
Country/TerritoryUnited Kingdom
CityLondon
Period26/07/1729/07/17

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