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1、JournalofExperimentalPsychology:©2011AmericanPsychologicalAssociationLearning,Memory,andCognition0278-7393/11/$12.00DOI:10.1037/a00235502011,Vol.37,No.5,1243–1249RESEARCHREPORTSequentialAnalysisoftheNumericalStroopEffectRevealsResponseSuppressionRoiCohenKadoshWimGeversUniver
2、sityofOxfordUniversite´LibredeBruxellesWimNotebaertGhentUniversityAutomaticprocessingofirrelevantstimulusdimensionshasbeendemonstratedinavarietyoftasks.Previousstudieshaveshownthatconflictbetweenrelevantandirrelevantdimensionscanbereducedwhenafeatureoftheirrelevantdimensioni
3、srepeated.Thespecificlevelatwhichtheautomaticprocessissuppressed(e.g.,perceptualrepetition,responserepetition),however,islessunderstood.InthecurrentexperimentweusedthenumericalStroopparadigm,inwhichtheprocessingofirrelevantnumericalvaluesof2digitsinterfereswiththeprocessingo
4、ftheirphysicalsize,topinpointthepreciselevelofthesuppression.Usingasequentialanalysis,wedissociatedperceptualrepetitionfromresponserepetitionoftherelevantandirrelevantdimension.Ouranalysesofreactiontimes,errorrates,anddiffusionmodelingrevealedthatthecongruityeffectissignific
5、antlyreducedorevenabsentwhentheresponsesequenceoftheirrelevantdimension,ratherthanthenumericalvalueorthephysicalsize,isrepeated.Theseresultssuggestthatautomaticactivationoftheirrelevantdimensionissuppressedattheresponselevel.Thecurrentresultsshedlightonthelevelofinteractionb
6、etweennumericalmagnitudeandphysicalsizeaswellastheeffectofvariabilityofresponsesandstimulionautomaticprocessing.Keywords:automaticity,congruityeffect,diffusionmodeling,executivecontrol,inhibitionCognitivecontrolistheabilitythatcomesintoplaywhencomparedwiththeinkcolorofacongr
7、uentstimulus.Notebaertautomaticprocessesneedtobeinhibited,bysuppressingdominantandcolleagues(Notebaert&Soetens,2006;Notebaert,Soetens,&responsesinfavoroflessaccessiblebutmoreappropriateones.Melis,2001)observedthattheStroopcongruityeffectwasreducedOnefactorthataffectscognitiv
8、econtrolisthesequenceofthewhenthesamefeatureoftheirrelevantdimensionwasrepe