A Stroop-like effect in color-naming of color-word lexigrams by a chimpanzee (Pan Troglodyte)

Journal of General Psychology

Volumn 134, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 217-228

  Beran, Michael J ^a   Washburn, David A ^a   Rumbaugh, Duane M ^a  

^a GEORGIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Attention; Automaticity; Chimpanzee; Interference; Stroop effect

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; COLOR VISION; CONFLICT; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; FEMALE; LEARNING; PAN TROGLODYTES; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PROBLEM SOLVING; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; REACTION TIME; SEMANTICS; SYMBOLISM;

ANIMALS; ASSOCIATION LEARNING; ATTENTION; COLOR PERCEPTION; CONFLICT (PSYCHOLOGY); DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; FEMALE; PAN TROGLODYTES; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PROBLEM SOLVING; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; REACTION TIME; SEMANTICS; SYMBOLISM;

EID: 34249061858     PISSN: 00221309     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3200/GENP.134.2.217-228     Document Type: Article

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