The Stroop Effect is the decreased accuracy and increased response times observed when participants are asked to indicate the printed color of a word that is itself a conflicting or incongruous color-word (respond “blue” to RED printed in blue), compared to color-naming of congruous words or control stimuli (BLUE or XXXX respectively, both printed in blue). Congruous trials (matching word color...

The Stroop Effect is the decreased accuracy and increased response times observed when participants are asked to indicate the printed color of a word that is itself a conflicting or incongruous color-word (respond “blue” to RED printed in blue), compared to color-naming of congruous words or control stimuli (BLUE or XXXX respectively, both printed in blue). Congruous trials (matching word color...

The aim of this study was to determine whether musical expertise influences the detection of pitch variations in a foreign language that participants did not understand. To this end, French adults, musicians and nonmusicians, were presented with sentences spoken in Portuguese. The final words of the sentences were prosodically congruous (spoken at normal pitch height) or incongruous (pitch was ...

Hip incongruency was studied by load-displacement and casting methods. Twenty-five joints were loaded in 5 different positions of the walking cycle. Seventeen of them had a space at the apex in all positions, while 3 were congruent at low loads, and the remaining 5 had femoral heads smaller than their acetabula. No trends with age were apparent.

We report the clinical and radiologic features of a 31-year-old woman who suffered incongruous binasal and bitemporal visual field defects and severe sudden visual loss due to hypoperfusion of bilateral lateral geniculate bodies following anaphylactic shock induced by 500 mg amoxicillin per os. Complete neuroophthalmologic examinations were performed regularly for visual acuity, color vision, p...

In Härtl (2003)), it was shown that congruous pictures were size categorized – i.e. a conceptual task – slower than incongruous ones subsequent to a localization expression containing a prepositional phrase (as in to stick s.th. on the ...). No such difference showed up with the intransitive prepositional variants, i.e. particles as in to stick s.th. on. In the current study, transitive activit...

Postural dual-task studies have demonstrated effects of various executive function components on gait and postural control in older adults. The purpose of the study was to explore the role of inhibition during lateral step initiation. Forty older adults participated (range 70-94 yr). Subjects stepped to the left or right in response to congruous and incongruous visual cues that consisted of lef...

In a behavioral study we analyzed the influence of visual action primes on abstract action sentence processing. We thereby aimed at investigating mental motor involvement during processes of meaning constitution of action verbs in abstract contexts. In the first experiment, participants executed either congruous or incongruous movements parallel to a video prime. In the second experiment, we ad...

This experiment was aimed at studying the changes in the brain electrical activity associated with some aspects of prosodic processing and at comparing the results with those obtained for the melodic processing of short musical phrases, by manipulating the F0 of the final word/note. Both musicians and non-musicians were presented with French sentences, ending with prosodically congruous, weakly...