Stroop test
Colour Conflict
Name the ink colour of a word, not the word itself. Trains the ability to keep the relevant feature in front and push a stronger habit aside.
How to play Colour Conflict
Selective attentionChoose the ink colour the word is printed in. Ignore what the word says.
- A colour word appears, printed in a colour of its own.
- Choose the ink colour, never the word meaning.
- The buttons stay in the same positions for the whole set.
Controls
- 1 / 2 / 3 / 4 Choose the matching answer button
- Tap Tap a colour button
What Colour Conflict measures
A Stroop task. Reading is close to automatic, so a mismatched colour word competes with naming the ink. The gap between mismatched and matched trials is the interference cost.
Headline measure: Interference cost (ms)
What does the score mean?
Your score describes how you did on this task, on this day, at this difficulty. It is not an IQ score, a percentile or a medical measure. The headline number here is interference cost. Scores compare you with your own earlier sets, never with other people. Read more on what the exercises measure.