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“I Can Read These Colors.” Orthographic Manipulations and the Development of the Color-Word Stroop

The color-word Stroop is a popular measure in psychological assessments. Evidence suggests that Stroop performance relies heavily on reading, an ability that improves over childhood. One way to influence reading proficiency is by orthographic manipulations. To determine the degree of interference po...

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Autores principales: Arsalidou, Marie, Agostino, Alba, Maxwell, Sarah, Taylor, Margot J.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Frontiers Media S.A. 2013
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3539116/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23316179
http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2012.00594
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author Arsalidou, Marie
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Taylor, Margot J.
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description The color-word Stroop is a popular measure in psychological assessments. Evidence suggests that Stroop performance relies heavily on reading, an ability that improves over childhood. One way to influence reading proficiency is by orthographic manipulations. To determine the degree of interference posed by orthographic manipulations with development, in addition to standard color-Words (purple) we manipulated letter-positions: First/last letter in correct place (prulpe) and Scrambled (ulrpep). We tested children 7–16 years (n = 128) and adults (n = 23). Analyses showed that Word- and First/last-incongruent were qualitatively similar, whereas Word-congruent was different than other conditions. Results suggest that for children and adults, performance was hindered the most for incongruent and incorrectly spelled words and was most facilitated when words were congruent with the ink color and correctly spelled. Implications on visual word recognition and reading are discussed.
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spelling pubmed-35391162013-01-11 “I Can Read These Colors.” Orthographic Manipulations and the Development of the Color-Word Stroop Arsalidou, Marie Agostino, Alba Maxwell, Sarah Taylor, Margot J. Front Psychol Psychology The color-word Stroop is a popular measure in psychological assessments. Evidence suggests that Stroop performance relies heavily on reading, an ability that improves over childhood. One way to influence reading proficiency is by orthographic manipulations. To determine the degree of interference posed by orthographic manipulations with development, in addition to standard color-Words (purple) we manipulated letter-positions: First/last letter in correct place (prulpe) and Scrambled (ulrpep). We tested children 7–16 years (n = 128) and adults (n = 23). Analyses showed that Word- and First/last-incongruent were qualitatively similar, whereas Word-congruent was different than other conditions. Results suggest that for children and adults, performance was hindered the most for incongruent and incorrectly spelled words and was most facilitated when words were congruent with the ink color and correctly spelled. Implications on visual word recognition and reading are discussed. Frontiers Media S.A. 2013-01-08 /pmc/articles/PMC3539116/ /pubmed/23316179 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2012.00594 Text en Copyright © 2013 Arsalidou, Agostino, Maxwell and Taylor. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits use, distribution and reproduction in other forums, provided the original authors and source are credited and subject to any copyright notices concerning any third-party graphics etc.
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Arsalidou, Marie
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Maxwell, Sarah
Taylor, Margot J.
“I Can Read These Colors.” Orthographic Manipulations and the Development of the Color-Word Stroop
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title_full_unstemmed “I Can Read These Colors.” Orthographic Manipulations and the Development of the Color-Word Stroop
title_short “I Can Read These Colors.” Orthographic Manipulations and the Development of the Color-Word Stroop
title_sort “i can read these colors.” orthographic manipulations and the development of the color-word stroop
topic Psychology
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3539116/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23316179
http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2012.00594
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