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Advanced Age Interference in the Stroop Color-Word Task
For more than 65 years, experimental psychologists have been concerned with studying the human brain: how it processes information (i.e., serial versus parallel distribution, and controlled versus automatic processing) and the role of attention and interference. One of the most famous and widely-used measures of this has been the classic Stroop Color-Word Task, or more simply the Stroop effect.
This experiment (and paper) attempts to assess how reaction times differ between younger and older subjects in the Stroop Color-Word Task. It also speaks to the issues of automaticity, selective attention, and interference.
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