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Stroop Interference Patterns
Acta Psychologica North-Holland

64 (1987) 93-100

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INTERFERENCE

WITH FACE NAMING * Brenda M. FLUDE, Andrew W. ELLIS

Andrew W. YOUNG, and Dennis C. HAY LancasterUniversity, UK
Accepted November 1985

Photographs of familiar faces and printed names of familiar people were combined to create four experimental conditions. These involved presentation of a face and the same person’s name, presentation of a face or a name only, presentation of a face and the name of an unrelated person drawn from a different occupational category, and presentation of a face and the name of a different person drawn from the same occupational category. Subjects were asked to name the faces or to name the printed names. The presence of faces had no …show more content…
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