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Why you can't ignore the word and name the colour: the Stroop effect
Read the word, then name its ink colour: you can't turn reading off. In 1886 Cattell noticed that people read words faster than they name colours, and in 1935…
Why Spanish sounds faster than Vietnamese yet says just as much
Listen to Spanish or Japanese and it seems to rush past; Vietnamese or Thai can sound almost unhurried. Yet when researchers timed 170 people reading the same…