A Stroop-Like Effect in Color-Naming of Color-Word Lexigrams by a Chimpanzee (Pan Troglodyte)
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 10121623 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Michael J Beran (0000-0002-2504-0338, Georgia State University, corresponding author), David A Washburn (0000-0001-8603-3353, Georgia State University), Duane M Rumbaugh (Georgia State University) |
| Year | 2007 |
| Volume | 134 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 217-228 |
| Publication date | 2007-04-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | The Journal of General Psychology (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0022-1309 • E-ISSN: 1940-0888 |
| Publisher | Taylor & Francis (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.3200/genp.134.2.217-228 |
| PMID | 17503696 |
| OpenAlex | W1989000144 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 2 |
| References cited | 7 |
The Stroop effect (J. R. Stroop, 1935) reflects the difficulty in ignoring irrelevant, but automatically processed, semantic information that is inherent in certain stimuli. With humans, researchers have found this effect when they asked participants to name the color of the letters that make up a word that is incongruent with that color. The authors tested a chimpanzee that had learned to associate geometric symbols called lexigrams with specific colors. When the chimpanzee had to make different responses that depended on the color of stimuli presented to her, she showed a Stroop-like effect when researchers presented to her the previously learned symbols for colors in incongruent font colors. Her accuracy performance was significantly poorer with these stimuli than with congruent color-referent lexigrams, noncolor-referent lexigrams, and nonlexigram stimuli, although there were not any significant differences in response latency. The authors' results demonstrated color-word interference in a Stroop task with a nonhuman animal
Cognition · Cognitive psychology · Color term · Color vision · Linguistics · Referent · Stroop effect · Artificial Intelligence · Cognitive and developmental aspects of mathematical skills · Communication · Computer Science · Multisensory perception and integration · Neural and Behavioral Psychology Studies · Neuroscience · Psychology
| Citations per year | 0.22 |
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| Citation span | 2017 - 2022 (6) |
| Highly cited | No |