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Results of a card sorting experiment suggest a new interpretation for the interference between words and colours that is displayed in the Stroop Test.
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TREISMAN, A., FEARNLEY, S. The Stroop Test: Selective Attention to Colours and Words. Nature 222, 437–439 (1969). https://doi.org/10.1038/222437a0
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