The human brain is an amazing organ, constantly analyzing and interpreting the world around us.
Often, when we are presented with two stimuli at the same time, interference occurs and our brains become confused. The “Stroop Effect” was named after psychologist J. Ridley Stroop, who discovered that when we experience multiple stimuli our reaction times can differ.
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