Phonological encoding in the oral but not manual stroop task: evidence for the role of a speech production process

Sachiko Kinoshita*, Luke Mills

*Corresponding author for this work

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Abstract

The present study investigated how response mode (oral vs. manual) modulates the Stroop effect using a picture variant of the Stroop task in which participants named orally, or identified with a manual keypress, line drawings of animals (e.g., camel). Consistent with previous color-response Stroop studies, relative to the nonlinguistic neutral distractor (a row of "#" symbols), incongruent distractors (e.g., GIRAFFE) interfered with responding to pictures, and that interference was reduced for the manual, compared with the oral, response. Additionally, pseudoword distractors with no phonological overlap with the picture name (e.g., NUST-camel) interfered with the oral, but not the manual, response. The novel finding is that relative to this pseudoword distractor, the oral response was facilitated when the distractor shared the onset segment with the picture name, regardless of orthographic overlap (e.g., CUST-camel = KUST-camel < NUST-camel); in contrast, for the manual response, there was no difference between the three pseudoword distractor conditions. These results are explained in terms of phonological encoding, a speech production process involved in computing a phonetic plan for generating an oral, but not a manual, response.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)1494–1504
Number of pages11
JournalJournal of Experimental Psychology: Learning Memory and Cognition
Volume46
Issue number8
Early online date27 Feb 2020
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - Aug 2020

Keywords

  • stroop effect
  • response mode
  • phonological encoding in speech production
  • onset overlap benefit
  • computation of phonology

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