It bothers me when we discuss the Stroop effect that color-naming, a low- level, simple physical process, which is certainly automatized, is inhibited by a higher level, more complex and serial process, reading, which is also certainly automatized. Why should the higher level, more complicated process dominate the lower level simpler process? Am I over-thinking this?
Can anyone point me to a good resolution of this? I usually just talk about how automatized reading becomes for us; and that the strength of that automatization has a lot to say about being pre-wired for language etc. etc. all the usual related stuff.
Well, it is definitely outside my area, but I wonder if "higher" and "lower" level as a metaphor for the processes is misleading here. If the two processes must share some limited resource (like lexical access) then one would expect each to inhibit the other. But here I am ignorant. Do they each inhibit the other?
-Chuck
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