Practice makes better? The influence of increased practice on task conflict in the Stroop task.
The Stroop task is widely used to study attentional control and cognitive flexibility. However, questions about its sensitivity to training and the impact of task conflict on attentional control remain open. We investigated the effects of practice and task conflict on attentional control in the Stro...
| Publicado en: | Memory & Cognition Vol. 53; no. 6; pp. 1696 - 1708 |
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