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Abstract The purpose of this experiment was to determine whether the position of the colored letter in Besner et al's single-letter-coloured Stroop task affects the amount of interference observed in naming times. The participants of this study was randomly gathered by 2nd year Psychology students at Monash University (N = 100). The participants were presented with a single stimulus on each paper and were told to ignore the letter string and to identify the either one of …

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