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Stroop-Like Effects for Monkeys and Humans: Processing Speed or Strength of Association?Stroop-like effects have been found using a variety of paradigms and subject groups. In the present investigation, 6 rhesus monkeys (Macaca mulatta) and 28 humans exhibited Stroop-like interference and facilitation in a relative-numerousness task. Monkeys, like humans, processed the meanings of the numerical symbols automatically, despite the fact that these meanings were irrelevant to task performance. These data also afforded direct comparison of interpretations of the Stroop effect in terms of processing speed versus association strength. These findings were consistent with parallel-processing models of Stroop-like interference proposed elsewhere, but not with processing-speed accounts posited frequently to explain the effect.
Document ID
19970037431
Acquisition Source
Ames Research Center
Document Type
Reprint (Version printed in journal)
Authors
Washburn, David A.
(Georgia State Univ. Atlanta, GA United States)
Date Acquired
August 17, 2013
Publication Date
November 1, 1994
Publication Information
Publication: Psychological Science
Publisher: American Psychological Society
Volume: 5
Issue: 6
Subject Category
Life Sciences (General)
Report/Patent Number
NAS 1.26:203590
NASA-CR-203590
Accession Number
97N72507
Funding Number(s)
CONTRACT_GRANT: DAAL03-92-G-0382
CONTRACT_GRANT: NAG2-438
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Public
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