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Is There Semantic Conflict in the Stroop Task? Further evidence from a modified two-to-one Stroop paradigm combined with single-letter coloring and cueing.

Burca, M., Beaucousin, V., Chausse, P., Ferrand, L., Parris, B. A. and Augustinova, M., 2021. Is There Semantic Conflict in the Stroop Task? Further evidence from a modified two-to-one Stroop paradigm combined with single-letter coloring and cueing. Experimental Psychology, 68 (5), 274-283.

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DOI: 10.1027/1618-3169/a000530

Abstract

This research addressed current controversies concerning the contribution of semantic conflict to the Stroop interference effect and its reduction by a single-letter coloring and cueing procedure. On the first issue, it provides, for the first time, unambiguous evidence for a contribution of semantic conflict to the (overall) Stroop interference effect. The reported data remained inconclusive on the second issue, despite being collected in a considerable sample and analyzed with both classical (frequentist) and Bayesian inferential approaches. Given that in all past Stroop studies, semantic conflict was possibly confounded with either response conflict (e.g., when semantic-associative items [SKYblue] are used to induce semantic conflict) or with facilitation (when color-congruent items [BLUEblue] are used as baseline to derive a magnitude for semantic conflict), its genuine contribution to the Stroop interference effect is the most critical result reported in the present study. Indeed, it leaves no doubt - in complete contrast to dominant single-stage response competition models (e.g., Roelofs, 2003) - that selection occurs at the semantic level in the Stroop task. The immediate implications for the composite (as opposed to unitary) nature of the Stroop interference effect and other still unresolved issues in the Stroop literature are outlined further.

Item Type:Article
ISSN:1618-3169
Additional Information:Funding: The work reported was supported by ANR Grant ANR-19-CE28-0013 and RIN Doctorant et RIN Tremplin Grant 19E00851 of Normandie Région, France.
Uncontrolled Keywords:Stroop interference ; response conflict ; semantic conflict ; single-letter coloring and cueing
Group:Faculty of Science & Technology
ID Code:36444
Deposited By: Symplectic RT2
Deposited On:04 Jan 2022 10:58
Last Modified:14 Mar 2022 14:31

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