Abstract
Semantic priming effect in a Stroop task. Implications for research on attentional control. In two e xperiments we replicate and extended the work of Warren (1974). A Stroop task was used, in which participants were to name the colour of the ink of a target word. This coloured target word preceded by a black prime wor d, which could be highly associated, moderately associated, or non-associated to the target word. Results showed bigger interference when the prime and target words were highly associated than when they were non-associated. This effect ocurred both in Experiment 1, in which participants were to recall the prime word immediately after the Stroop task, and in Experiment 2, in which participants were to recognise the prime words among distractors at the end of the block of trials. Results are interpreted on the grounds of attentional control over representations on semantic memory.
