Hi Annette- Why not practice effect for and explanation? I don't know about you, but in a typical day I'll read thousands of words but I can easily go a week without having to name a colour. It makes sense to me that the more frequently fired neural pathways would connect before the less frequently fired pathways.
-Don. Annette Taylor, Ph. D. said: > Dear Tipsters: > > We�ve been doing CogLab exercises in my cognitive course and will be > discussing the results in class on Tuesday. > > I have some questions for you all. Sometimes I just avoid discussing > some aspects in class that trouble me. I'd like to not do that this > time. > > 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. > > BUT in my head, I am bothered by the question above. > > This is further complicated in that we do the brain asymmetry task in > the same unit (we only meet once per week) and so when the two are > juxtaposed, it would seem even more so that the lower level task should > be faster, and therefore should dominate the word-processing task. > > So overall I would think that color naming would inhibit reading and not > be inhibited by reading, > > Comments on this one are welcomed as well. > > Annette Kujawski Taylor, Ph. D. > Department of Psychology > University of San Diego > 5998 Alcala Park > San Diego, CA 92110 > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > --- > You are currently subscribed to tips as: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > To unsubscribe send a blank email to > [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- --- You are currently subscribed to tips as: [email protected] To unsubscribe send a blank email to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
