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When Ss had to indicate if the colors of pairs of items from the Stroop test were the same or different, the usual interference effect was completely eliminated. However, when the verbal information consisted of SAME and DIFF rather than color names, interference was reestablished. This indicates that the perceptual comparison task does not eliminate interference simply by rendering Ss insensitive to the meanings of words.
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This research was supported in part by grants to the senior author from the National Science Foundation and the Office of Education. A version of this paper was presented at the meeting of the Eastern Psychological Association. Philadelphia, 1969.
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Egeth, H.E., Blecker, D.L. & Kamlet, A.S. Verbal interference in a perceptual comparison task. Perception & Psychophysics 6, 355–356 (1969). https://doi.org/10.3758/BF03212790
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