Stroop effects from newly learned color words: effects of memory consolidation and episodic context.

ABSTRACT: The Stroop task is an excellent tool to test whether reading a word automatically activates its associated meaning, and it has been widely used in mono- and bilingual contexts. Despite of its ubiquity, the task has not yet been employed to test the automaticity of recently established word-concept links in novel-word-learning studies, under strict experimental control of learning and testing conditions. In three experiments, we thus paired novel words with native language (German) color words via lexical association and subsequently tested these words in a manual version of the Stroop task. Two crucial findings emerged: When novel word Stroop trials appeared intermixed among native-word trials, the novel-word Stroop effect was observed immediately after the learning phase. If no native col

SUBMITTER: Geukes S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4357220 | biostudies-literature | 2015

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature