During the Stroop Task (pictured), which involves having to say the name of the color that the word is written in (blue for the top word) rather than reading the word (red), we feel conflicting urges ...

(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!

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract Three experiments showed that the pattern of interference of single-modality Stroop tests also exists cross-modally. Distractors and targets ...