The literature on interference in the Stroop Color–Word Task, covering over 50 years and
some 400 studies, is organized and reviewed. In so doing, a set of 18 reliable empirical …

The frequency with which words are used has long been known to influence performance in
reading tasks. Such effects are robust, often large, and sufficiently universal that no serious …

This article presents a theory in which automatization is construed as the acquisition of a
domain-specific knowledge base, formed of separate representations, instances, of each …

We investigated the psychological reality of the concept of orthographical depth and its
influence on visual word recognition by examining naming performance in Hebrew, English …

Semantic priming has been a focus of research in the cognitive sciences for more than thirty
years and is commonly used as a tool for investigating other aspects of perception and …

The aim of the present study was to examine the time course and scalp distribution of
electrophysiological manifestations of the visual word recognition mechanism. Event-related …

A theory of executive control is presented that proposes that executive processes control
subordinate processes by manipulating their parameters, reconfiguring them to respond in …

A meta-analysis of 26 studies indicated that automatic semantic priming can occur without
association. Priming did not vary substantially with differences in variables that affect …

An instance theory of attention and memory (ITAM) is presented that integrates formal
theories of attention and memory phenomena by exploiting commonalities in their formal …

L'automatisme et l'habileté sont reliés mais non identiques. Les processus automatiques
sont les composantes d'une habilité, mais celle-ci est plus que la somme de ses …