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.