The Impact of Different Attentional Cues on the Stroop Interfere Effect

Abstract

Abstract: Recent researches have suggested the attentional factors or processes, such as Stimulus Onset Asynchrony (SOA), inhibition of return (IOR)， and the spatial structure of stimuli, may affect the Stroop interfere effect, indicating the semantic interfere of the color word was conditional automatic. However, it was still unknown whether the factors above had interaction and whether their interaction impacted the Stroop interfere effect. Additionally, recent research doubted about the translation account (Virzi, 1985) in explaining the mechanism of the Stroop interfere effect. So it was necessary to give an inspection to this theory in a new paradigm. Thus, this study was designed according to cue-target paradigm and gave a further exploration to the mechanism of the classic Stroop interfere effect which is affected by the exogenous attentional cues above. In this study, SOA, the cue’s color and its spatial structure were operated to elicit different attentional processes. Forty two college students jointed the experiment and completed the color naming task. And the repeated-measure ANOVA showed the relationship between Stroop interfere effect and the attentional factors mentioned above. The result reveals that: (1) the IOR effect is not found in this experiment, and there is no interaction between SOA, the validity of the cue and the color of the cue. (2) The cue’s validity affect the Stroop interfere effect. If the cue is valid, the reaction time (RT) of the color naming task become shorter and the Stroop interfere effect come out; While if the cue is invalid, the RT become longer and the Stroop interfere effect disappear. (3) The color of the cue impact the Stroop interfere effect. If the color of the cue is consistence with the color of the color word, the Stroop interfere effect disappear; but if the color of the cue is consistence with the color of the color word, the Stroop interfere effect come out. The results indicates the Stroop interfere effect which emerges in this study is impacted by the cue’s color and its validity and the attentional processes which are induced by those two factors might be parallel. Additionally, this Stroop interfere effect is also in obedience to translation account. Keywords: Stroop interfere effect; cue-target paradigm; translation account theory

Key words: Stroop interfere effect, cue-target paradigm, translation account theory

摘要： 本研究采用线索提示任务探讨了不同提示线索颜色、SOA及提示有效应对于经典Stroop干扰效应的影响。结果发现，线索提示类型及其颜色是否与目标色词一致会对Stroop任务产生显著影响。其中有效提示下出现显著Stroop效应，而无效提示下Stroop效应消失，显示视觉注意空间搜索会影响Stroop效应；线索提示颜色与色词颜色是否一致同样影响Stroop干扰效应，两者不一致时存在显著Stroop效应，而两者一致时Stroop效应消失，表明Stroop效应的发生依赖于色词加工中不同通道间信息的转译。关键词：Stroop 效应；线索提示任务；转译理论

关键词: Stroop 效应, 线索提示任务, 转译理论

顾本柏贾磊张庆林李红. 不同提示线索对于Stroop干扰效应的影响[J]. 心理科学, 2013, 36(2): 296-300.

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