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Citations number
33
Categorie Soggetti
Psycology
Journal title
CANADIAN JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL PSYCHOLOGY-REVUE CANADIENNE DE PSYCHOLOGIE EXPERIMENTALE
The "memory" literature emphasizes the notion of encoding variability, wher
eas the "word recognition and attention" literature typically asserts that
it is impossible to prevent immediate lexical and semantic activation when
single words are presented to skilled readers. Ln the four experiments repo
rted here, the presence/absence of a Stroop effect was associated with the
nature of the between-trial context. These data can be understood as an exp
ression of contextually driven encoding variability, but are problematic fo
r the decontextualized "automatic" processing account that has prevailed in
the attention and performance literature for the last six decades.