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color-word Stroop task
A task in which single words (including names of colors) are presented in colored ink, and the subject is asked to name the color of the ink as quickly as possible. The ink color may either match or conflict with the color name. Accuracy and response time are measured.

Synonyms: Stroop color-word task, Stroop color-word interference task, Stroop color naming task

Descendant of: Stroop task

Definition contributed by MLewis Wednesday morning.

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Task records: 4  

decision making
  • Please add a contrast
 

response inhibition
  • Incongruent
 
  • Incongruent - Congruent
 
  • Incongruent - Neutral
 

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Definition contributed by RPoldrack about four months ago:

A task in which single words (including names of colors) are presented in colored ink, and the subject is asked to name the color of the ink as quickly as possible. The ink color may either match or conflict with the color name. Accuracy and response time are measured.

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Definition contributed by RPoldrack about four months ago:

A task in which single words (including names of colors) are presented in colored ink, and the subject is asked to name the color of the ink as quickly as possible. The ink color may either match or conflict with the color name. Accuracy and response time are measured.

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Definition contributed by SAdministrator about two years ago:

A task in which single words (including names of colors) are presented in colored ink, and the subject is asked to name the color of the ink as quickly as possible. The ink color may either match or conflict with the color name. Accuracy and response time are measured.

Revision 1

Definition contributed by SAdministrator about two years ago:

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Attention and automaticity in Stroop and priming tasks: theory and data.
Logan GD
(Cogn Psychol)
1980 Oct
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Let's inhibit our excitement: The relationships between Stroop, behavioral disinhibition, and the frontal lobes.
Heflin LH, Laluz V, Jang J, Ketelle R, Miller BL, Kramer JH
Neuropsychology (Neuropsychology)
2011 May 16
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