Schizophrenia is associated with impairments of attentional control on classic experimental paradigms such as the Stroop task. However, at a basic level the neurochemical mechanisms that may be ...

Some reports indicate that cigarette smoking can help smokers focus attention, even when they have not abstained from smoking for a substantial period of time (eg, >1 h). Understanding the mechanisms ...

If you’ve ever suffered a concussion, you’ve maybe had your hand at the Stroop Task, a classic psychological test in which color words like “red,” “blue,” or “green” are displayed in colored ink that ...

In the first in Mind Games, our new series on classic psychology experiments, we show you how to conduct the Stroop test, which looks at how language is processed Welcome to the first in a new series ...

(via SciShow Psych) The task sounds like it should be pretty easy, but the Stroop task is a fantastic, and very well studied, example of how your brain’s automatic processing can trip you up!

Every day, we are faced with countless decisions regarding cognitive control, or the process of inhibiting automatic or habitual responses in order to perform better at a task. Amitai Shenhav, Ph.D., ...