Effects of Controlled Illumination Levels Upon Verbal Response Latency in a Color-Word Interference Task

1977 ◽  
Vol 95 (2) ◽  
pp. 189-193 ◽  
Author(s):  
Peter O. Peretti
Keyword(s):  
Response Latency ◽  
Color Word ◽  
Verbal Response ◽  
Interference Task ◽  
Controlled Illumination

Latency of Echoic Verbal Responses by Three-Year-Old Children

1970 ◽  
Vol 13 (2) ◽  
pp. 232-238 ◽  
Author(s):  
John H. Saxman ◽  
Warren H. Fay
Keyword(s):  
Response Latency ◽  
Verbal Response ◽  
Average Response ◽  
Verbal Stimuli ◽  
Verbal Comprehension ◽  
Verbal Responses ◽  
Routine Administration ◽  
Average Latency ◽  
The Mean ◽  
Average Response Latency

The echoic responses of 59 three-year-old children were tape recorded during the routine administration of a verbal comprehension test. They were unsolicited echoes of the examiner’s statements rather than requested imitations as in previous latency studies of verbal responses. The response latency distribution was skewed positively with the mean and median latencies occurring at 0.88 and 0.78 sees, respectively. Comparisons between average latency values at three levels of stimulus conceptual complexity did not result in significant differences. Average response latency values were found also not to be different for verbal stimuli intending a motor response or verbal stimuli intending a verbal response. The results tended to support descriptions of echolalia as a relatively simple verbal response though further research is indicated. It was concluded also that the echoic response latency is independent of the linguistic parameters of the eliciting stimulus.

Two Forms of the Stroop Test

1983 ◽  
Vol 57 (3) ◽  
pp. 879-882 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ann Taylor ◽  
P. B. Clive
Keyword(s):  
Stroop Effect ◽  
Word Reading ◽  
Color Word ◽  
Color Naming ◽  
Stroop Test ◽  
Verbal Response ◽  
Card Sorting ◽  
General Measure ◽  
Interference Test

16 subjects performed a conventional chart-form and a card-sorting form of the Stroop color-word interference test. Interference scores on the two forms were positively and significantly correlated, while neither word reading nor color naming scores showed a significant correlation. It is suggested that the ‘Stroop effect’ has some, but limited, generality and that forms not requiring verbal response may be more useful than the traditional chart version in providing a general measure of interference proneness.

The Stroop Effect in English-Japanese Bilinguals

2008 ◽  
Vol 55 (2) ◽  
pp. 93-101 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hiromi Sumiya ◽  
Alice F. Healy
Keyword(s):  
Lexical Access ◽  
Reading Fluency ◽  
Phonological Processing ◽  
Stroop Effect ◽  
Color Word ◽  
Reading Proficiency ◽  
Intermediate Level ◽  
Interference Task ◽  
Color Terms

Abstract. English-Japanese bilinguals performed a Stroop color-word interference task with both English and Japanese stimuli and responded in both English and Japanese. The Japanese stimuli were either the traditional color terms (TCTs) written in Hiragana or loanwords (LWs) from English written in Katakana. Both within-language and between-language interference were found for all combinations of stimuli and responses. The between-language interference was larger for Katakana LWs (phonologically similar to English) than for Hiragana TCTs, especially with Japanese responses. The magnitude of this phonological effect increased with self-rated reading fluency in Japanese. Overall responding was slower and the Stroop effect larger with English than with Japanese stimuli. These results suggest that unintentional lexical access elicits automatic phonological processing even with intermediate-level reading proficiency.

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