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Spinelli, Giacomo; Lupker, Stephen J. – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 2023
In the standard Proportion-Congruent (PC) paradigm, performance is compared between a list containing mostly congruent (MC) stimuli (e.g., the word RED in the color red in the Stroop task; Stroop, 1935) and a list containing mostly incongruent (MI) stimuli (e.g., the word BLUE in red). The PC effect, the finding that the congruency effect (i.e.,…
Descriptors: Cognitive Psychology, Conflict, Cognitive Processes, Reaction Time
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Abrahamse, Elger L.; Duthoo, Wout; Notebaert, Wim; Risko, Evan F. – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 2013
Proportion congruency effects represent hallmark phenomena in current theorizing about cognitive control. This is based on the notion that proportion congruency determines the relative levels of attention to relevant and irrelevant information in conflict tasks. However, little empirical evidence exists that uniquely supports such an attention…
Descriptors: Attention, Experimental Psychology, Influences, Prediction