Single-letter coloring and spatial cuing do not eliminate or reduce a semantic contribution to the stroop effect

Psychonomic Bulletin and Review

Volumn 17, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 827-833

  Augustinova, Maria ^a   Flaudias, Valentin ^a   Ferrand, Ludovic ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ CLERMONT AUVERGNE   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; COLOR; COLOR VISION; DEPTH PERCEPTION; HUMAN; PHOTOSTIMULATION; REACTION TIME; SEMANTICS; STROOP TEST;

COLOR; COLOR PERCEPTION; CUES; HUMANS; PHOTIC STIMULATION; REACTION TIME; SEMANTICS; SPACE PERCEPTION; STROOP TEST;

EID: 78651236581     PISSN: 10699384     EISSN: 15315320     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3758/PBR.17.6.827     Document Type: Article

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