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The processing of conceptual information on spatial directions from pictorial and linguistic symbols

Ronald E. Shor
- 01 Jan 1970 - 
- Vol. 32, pp 346-365
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An analysis in a sample of 30 S s of the processing of spatial information when expressed in pictorial and linguistic (verbal) symbolic representations confirmed that it takes more time to name the arrow directions than to read the words and that an interference phenomenon can be produced using mismatched spatial symbols.
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This article is published in Acta Psychologica.The article was published on 1970-01-01. It has received 54 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Stroop effect.

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Half a century of research on the Stroop effect: an integrative review.

TL;DR: It is concluded that recent theories placing the explanatory weight on parallel processing of the irrelevant and the relevant dimensions are likely to be more sucessful than are earlier theories attempting to locate a single bottleneck in attention.
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The influence of irrelevant location information on performance: A review of the Simon and spatial Stroop effects

TL;DR: Empirical findings and theoretical explanations from two domains, those of the Simon effect and the spatial Stroop effect, are reviewed to clarify how and why stimulus location influences performance even when it is uninformative to the correct response.
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The Stroop phenomenon and its use in the stlldy of perceptual, cognitive, and response processes

TL;DR: Lyperimental findings were emphasized in contrast to the results of correlational studies, and the bulk of the material was produced since the 1966 review of Jensen and Rohwer, to illustrate use of the Stroop paradigm as a too! for the stud)’ of other psychological processes.
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SLAM: A connectionist model for attention in visual selection tasks

TL;DR: SLAM, the SeLective Attention Model, performs visual selective attention tasks, an analysis of which shows that two processes, object and attribute selection, are both necessary and sufficient.
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Selective Attention to Words and Colours

TL;DR: The authors found that the presence of words interferes with the task of naming colours and suggested a modification of the usual account such that stress is laid on the correspondence between the nature of the response (verbal) and that feature of a stimulus which will dominate.
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Language and Communication

TL;DR: The authors provide a survey of major issues in the study of language and communication, and show how these are related to questions of practical concern in the learning and teaching of second and foreign languages.
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Language and Communication

Herbert Rubenstein, +1 more
- 01 Jan 1952 - 
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