Can the "musical stroop" task replace the classical stroop task? Commentary on “The musical Stroop effect: Opening a new avenue to research on automatisms” by l. Grégoire, P. Perruchet, and B. Poulin-Charronnat (Experimental Psychology, 2013, vol. 60, pp. 269–278).
The musical Stroop task is analyzed and compared to the classical Stroop task. The analysis indicates that the two tasks differ in the following significant characteristics: ecological validity, the interrelations between the two perceptual dimensions involved, the nature of the automatic process and the existence of a potential Garner interference. It is concluded that the musical task has no advantage over the classical task.
School of Psychology, The Interdisciplinary Center, <location>Herzeliya, Israel</location>
Dan
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Zakay
D001332:Automatism / Q000175:diagnosis*; D006801:Humans; D009146:Music; D011214:Practice, Psychological; D057190:Stroop Test
Stroop task; Stroop-like task; automaticity; ecological validity; garner interference