The cause of the within-language Stroop superiority effect and its implications

Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology

Volumn 60, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 179-185

  Goldfarb, Liat ^a   Tzelgov, Joseph ^a,b  

^a BEN GURION UNIVERSITY OF THE NEGEV   (Israel)

^b ACHVA ACADEMIC COLLEGE   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; COLOR VISION; HUMAN; LANGUAGE; LINGUISTICS; METHODOLOGY; REACTION TIME;

COLOR PERCEPTION; HUMANS; LANGUAGE; LINGUISTICS; REACTION TIME; VOCABULARY;

EID: 33947535156     PISSN: 17470218     EISSN: 17470226     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/17470210600983415     Document Type: Article

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