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Eidels, Ami; Townsend, James T.; Algom, Daniel – Cognition, 2010
A huge set of focused attention experiments show that when presented with color words printed in color, observers report the ink color faster if the carrier word is the name of the color rather than the name of an alternative color, the Stroop effect. There is also a large number (although not so numerous as the Stroop task) of so-called…
Descriptors: Visual Stimuli, Cognitive Processes, Color, Associative Learning
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Redhead, Edward S.; Hamilton, Derek A. – Learning and Motivation, 2009
Three computer based experiments, testing human participants in a non-immersive virtual watermaze task, used a blocking design to assess whether two sets of geometric cues would compete in a manner described by associative models of learning. In stage 1, participants were required to discriminate between visually distinct platforms. In stage 2,…
Descriptors: Experimental Groups, Control Groups, Cues, Learning Strategies