The Stroop task remains a fundamental paradigm for investigating cognitive conflict and attentional control. In this task, participants are required to name the ink colour of a word that may itself ...

The way we see and process information is a key component of how we respond, behave, and perceive the world around us. There are things that our brains automatically process because they are congruent ...

Researchers at Washington University in St. Louis have created a neural network model to understand the mechanics of how humans concentrate in complex environments. With this task, participants face ...

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 ...