TY - JOUR PY - 2006// TI - Reverse stroop effects with untranslated responses JO - Journal of experimental psychology: human perception and performance A1 - Blais, Chris A1 - Besner, D. SP - 1345 EP - 1353 VL - 32 IS - 6 N2 - Translation accounts have argued that the presence of a Stroop effect in the context of a nonvocal untranslated response is caused by verbal mediation. In its simplest form, color-labeled buttons are translated into a verbal code that interferes with color responses. On this logic, in the reverse Stroop task (identify the word; ignore the color), responses made via word-labeled buttons should also be verbally mediated. Thus, no reverse Stroop effect (RSE) should be seen. The authors tested this verbal mediation hypothesis in 4 reverse Stroop task experiments. An RSE was observed across 4 experiments. The results of Experiments 3 and 4 suggest that this RSE is driven by response competition. It is argued that the data from these 4 experiments are inconsistent with unadorned translation accounts of the RSE but consistent with an account in which the strength of association between a stimulus and a specific response plays a major role.
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LA - en SN - 0096-1523 UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1037/0096-1523.32.6.1345 ID - ref1 ER -