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Conflicting results have been reported concerning the question of whether or not cross-modal, visual-auditory interference effects can be obtained in the Stroop task. In the present paper, we document such effects for a similar task, namely the picture-word interference task. Furthermore, we show that these effects are highly sensitive to the precise temporal relationship between the presentation of the target and the presentation of the distractor. The discussion of whether or not there are cross-modal Stroop effects would greatly benefit from experiments in which the timing of the stimulus presentation is carefully controlled.
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This paper was written while A. S. Meyer was a Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Rochester, supported by a grant from the Deutsche Akademische Austauschdienst and by NIH Grant NS 25502-02.
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Schriefers, H., Meyer, A.S. Experimental note: Cross-modal, visual-auditory picture-word interference. Bull. Psychon. Soc. 28, 418–420 (1990). https://doi.org/10.3758/BF03334055
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