Revealing List-Level Control in the Stroop Task by Uncovering Its Benefits and a Cost

Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance

Volumn 37, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 1595-1606

  Bugg, Julie M ^a   McDaniel, Mark A ^a   Scullin, Michael K ^a   Braver, Todd S ^a  

^a WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Cognitive control; Item specific proportion congruence; List wide proportion congruence; Prospective memory

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; ATTENTION; AWARENESS; COLOR VISION; DEPTH PERCEPTION; EPISODIC MEMORY; HUMAN; ORIENTATION; REACTION TIME; READING; RECOGNITION; SEMANTICS; STROOP TEST;

ATTENTION; AWARENESS; COLOR PERCEPTION; CUES; HUMANS; MEMORY, EPISODIC; ORIENTATION; REACTION TIME; READING; RECOGNITION (PSYCHOLOGY); SEMANTICS; SPACE PERCEPTION; STROOP TEST;

EID: 80053947188     PISSN: 00961523     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/a0024670     Document Type: Article

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