The literature on interference in the Stroop Color–Word Task, covering over 50 years and
some 400 studies, is organized and reviewed. In so doing, a set of 18 reliable empirical …

Motor skills are usually distinguished from perceptual skills, cognitive skills, communicative
skills, and other skill categories; but clearly these traditional distinctions have been made as …

This paper begins by considering problems that have plagued investigations of automatic or
unconscious influences of perception and memory. A process dissociation procedure that …

Availability of human memories for specific items shows reliable relationships to frequency,
recency, and pattern of prior exposures to the item. These relationships have defied a …

A 32‐item questionnaire on smoking urges was administered to 230 daily cigarette smokers
assigned to one of three levels of cigarette deprivation (0, 1 or 6 hours). Factor analyses …

THIS TWO-PART ESSAY discusses how research in the developmental cognitive
neurosciences can contribute to an understanding of the complex relations between various …

The effect of practice on the operative form of a rule was investigated by giving Ss an easy,
perfectly predictive classification rule, followed by training in applying that rule to a set of …

Abstract Reber (1969, 1989a) and Mathews et al.(1989), in experiments on learning artificial
grammars, reported good transfer to letter strings consisting of letters not used in the training …

Two classes of models have been proposed to explain how redundant information extracted
from separate sources comes to activate a single response. Each provides a fundamentally …

Four experiments tested the necessity of extended practice in producing automaticity in an
alphabet–arithmetic task in which subjects verified equations of the form A+ 2= C, asking …