Audio-visual Stroop matching task with first and second language colour words and colour associates
Category
Journal Article
Authors
Šaban, I., Schmidt, J. R.
Year
In press
Title
Audio-visual Stroop matching task with first and second language colour words and colour associates
Journal / book / conference
Applied Psycholinguistics
Abstract
In the audio-visual Stroop matching task, participants compare one Stroop stimulus dimension (e.g., the colour of a written word) to a second stimulus (e.g., a spoken word) and indicate whether these two stimuli match or mismatch. Slower responses on certain trials can be due to conflict which occurs between colour representations (semantic conflict) or due to conflict between responses evoked by task comparisons (response conflict). The contribution of these conflicts has been investigated with colour word distracters. This is the first study which explores how two types of first and second language words affect audio-visual matching. Native French speakers performed a bilingual Stroop matching task with intermixed French (L1) and English (L2) colour words (Experiment 1) and colour associates (Experiment 2) presented in congruent and incongruent colours simultaneously with spoken French colour words. Participants were instructed to indicate whether the spoken word “matches” or “mismatches” the font colour, while ignoring written word meaning. Interestingly, the results were similar for the critical “mismatch” trials for both French and English words. The responses were the fastest on trials in which task comparisons activate fewer response alternatives, supporting the assumption of the response conflict account.
Keywords
audio-visual matching, between-language interference, within-language interference, semantic conflict, response conflict