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- Title
Further evidence on the effects of symbolic distance on Stroop-like interference.
- Authors
Pavese, Antonella; Umiltà, Carlo
- Abstract
Abstract Pavese and Umilta found that, in an enumeration task, Stroop-like interference is larger when the digit identity is symbolically close to the enumeration response than when it is symbolically far. In two experiments testing 49 undergraduates, we further explored this phenomenon using Francolini and Egeth's paradigm. We found that symbolic distance affected interference even when the stimulus was briefly presented and masked. In Exp. 2, which tested numerosities outside the subitizing range, individuals used a different enumeration strategy but showed the same symbolic distance effect. These results support the hypothesis that Stroop interference found in enumeration tasks depends on a rapid and automatic activation of digits' magnitude representation.
- Subjects
COGNITIVE interference; DIMENSIONS; SEMANTICS
- Publication
Psychological Research, 1999, Vol 62, Issue 1, p62
- ISSN
0340-0727
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1007/s004260050040