The stroop effect is a delay in processing when we encounter a conflict in the semantic meaning of a concept and how it's presented. For example, if we are given a list of colours with different names than the colour in which they are listed (for example, the word blue is displayed in yellow). Cognitive Daily posts some interesting research on hypnosis to overcome this delay. A comment follows the article which suggest that a reader focus on the last letter of the word, rather than the entire phrase, thereby reducing the conflict between reading and recognition. It seems that we are experiencing two different actions with the stroop effect - the active processing which occurs via reading, and recognition of colors...which produces the conflicting delay. What does this have to do with learning? No idea. Just interesting.
Posted by gsiemens at July 5, 2007 1:47 PM | TrackBack