Auditory conflict processing: behavioral and electrophysiologic manifestations of the stroop effect.
Background: One of the most extensively studied phenomena in cognitive neuroscience is the Stroop effect. In an enormous corpus of literature, the Stroop task has been used to study conflict processing in the visual modality; however, scarce data exist in the auditory modality. Purpose: The main goa...
| Published in: | Journal of the American Academy of Audiology Vol. 21; no. 7; pp. 474 - 487 |
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Thieme Medical Publishing Inc.
Jul/Aug2010
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