Comparison of inhibition in two timed reaction tasks: the color and emotion Stroop tasks.
The authors examined the cross-task consistency of the ability to inhibit the processing of irrelevant information. They compared interference scores on 2 widely used inhibition tasks and found that color word Stroop interference scores correlated with emotion word Stroop interference scores. An examination of physiological reactivity showed that, in general, the color Stroop was more arousing than was the emotion Stroop, most likely due to increased response conflict.
Cothran
D Lisa
DL
Department of Psychology, University of Tennessee at Chattanooga, Chattanooga, TN 37403-2598, USA. lisa-Cothran@utc.edu
Larsen
Randy
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D000328:Adult; D001143:Arousal / Q000502:physiology; D003118:Color Perception / Q000502:physiology*; D004644:Emotions / Q000502:physiology*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007266:Inhibition, Psychological; D008297:Male; D011581:Psychological Tests; D011930:Reaction Time / Q000502:physiology*; D014481:United States
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