Stroop effect: an example of conflict analysis

The Stroop effect is investigated by means of the Stroop test (color-word test) interpretation and modelisation. The representation level that we use is quite different from the one chosen by other authors, which refer to as connexionism; the representation is of a higher level. It introduces the notion of temporality that allows one to take interactions and retroactions between psychological tasks into account; it rejects the inhibition and activation levels to avoid confusion between several description. We present proposals to clarify our knowledge of the Stroop effect. Finally, a modelisation of the decision strategy is proposed inside the Stroop effect