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Cho, Yang Seok; Lien, Mei-Ching; Proctor, Robert W. – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 2006
Stroop dilution is the reduction of the Stroop effect in the presence of a neutral word. It has been attributed to competition for attention between the color word and neutral word, to competition between all stimuli in the visual field, and to perceptual interference. Five experiments tested these accounts. The critical manipulation was whether…
Descriptors: Color, Reaction Time, Visual Stimuli, Visual Perception
Blaga, Otilia M.; Colombo, John – Developmental Psychology, 2006
Young infants have repeatedly been shown to be slower than older infants to shift fixation from a midline stimulus to a peripheral stimulus. This is generally thought to reflect maturation of the neural substrates that mediate the disengagement of attention, but this developmental difference may also be attributable to young infants' slower…
Descriptors: Familiarity, Infants, Attention Control, Dimensional Preference

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