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A Connectionist Model of the Stroop Effect
- Cohen, Dunbar and McClelland (1990) proposed an alternative connectionist explanation of the Stroop effect, which does not distinguish between automatic and controlled processing.
- They proposed that automaticity is a continuum, and that Stroop interference depends on the relative degree of learning of the respective tasks, not on processing speed.
- According to this view, asymmetries in performance such as those observed in the Stroop task can be accounted for by differences in experience.
