Stroop Effect: Statistical Analysis of a Perceptual Phenomenon

by Maneesh Divana for Udacity's Machine Learning Foundation Nanodegree

Project Report

Report can be viewed at https://maneeshd.github.io/stroop-effect/.

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In a Stroop task, participants are presented with a list of words, with each word displayed in a color of ink. The participant's task is to say out loud the color of the ink in which the word is printed. The task has two conditions:

1. Congruent words condition - words being displayed are color words whose names match the colors in which they are printed: for example,

+ GREEN
- RED

2. Incongruent words condition - words being displayed are color words whose names do not match the colors in which they are printed: for example,

+ RED
- GREEN

In each case, we measure the time it takes to name the ink colors in equally-sized lists. Each participant will go through and record a time from each condition.

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Run

jupyter notebook stroop_effect_analysis.ipynb

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Analysis Report

Analysis Notebook

Stroop Effect Questions

Dataset

Stroop Effect - Wikipedia

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