By Vurdlak on March 30, 2006, with 102 Comments
Look at the chart below and quickly say the color, not the word. This prooves how our brain uses each side of the brain for different action: your right side of the brain want’s you to say the color, but the left side insists on reading the word!
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Six seconds. I can read, am not color blind, and looked right at each word in question. I happen to be good at this, but it has nothing to do with one’s IQ.
i did my science fair on this
it is called the stroop effect
it was invented by jonh ridley stroop in 1935
It is a factor that demonstrates the influence of inference on a person’s reaction time.
it occurs because people actually read words faster then they con recognize colours, so their brain develops a preconceived idea of what the colour will be. but when the colour turns out to not match that idea, their brain receives conflicting signals. the brain must actually deal with those signals and chose the correct one.
it is also true that is you read slowly (and have not have practice with this) then you will complete this faster, as the strength of those signals is lessened
really, some girls and boys are equal so shut up you retards. if you think you are sooooo smart then you really aren’t, and that was very easy and i’m 12.
Thaaannnk you.I did it in 4 and Im 9
Whilst we are on subject of reading and
visual cognizance,
PROVE has just the one “O”. I would have
mentioned it earlier but this IS my 1st visit.
Used to find this really confusing but surprisingly, on this site, I found it a lot easier. I say just focus on the color of the words, not on the letters. ;>
These ones are fairly easy you can either blur your eyes or just read it so fast that the words loose their meaning and it just becomes a colour.
lefties can do it better cuz they use their right brain more than the left
Its so easy!!
first try got it, its just hard to say the colour the word is, like if it says yellow and its green,
i tryed to do
green instead, but i failed XD
it was hard because i tried so hard to have the colour in my mind and not the colour of the word
im good i could say it all pretty quick without hesitating..imma girl and yes,mayb just may b girl r better. cuuuuzzz..
GIRLZ RULE BOYZ DRULE
GIRLS R SASSY BOYZ R ASY
GIRLS SMART BOYS JUST FART
im 11 and alittle immature as u can c from what i just said about boyz
its waaay harder to say the real color then the word
i dont understand
MEGA EEEEEEEAAAAAAAAAASSSSSSSSSSSSSSYYYYYYY¡¡¡¡¡¡¡
blur ur eyes its easyer then!
i can do it but it makes my brain explode if i do it for too long i like that feeling
why do boys think they are better than girls? because ur jelous. Anyway, Donenit. easy (Dont be sexist. anybody)
i keep messing up on the red (in the color blue). i can read the rest (both color and word) perfectly besides that one.
Got it first time no problem while I was talking to my cousin in Texas who was going nuts over it. I advised her to walk away and come back it would come to her. She got it as soon after I got it. Great stuff!
….everyone trying to determine whether gender is a major component needs to calm down, because it has nothing to do with it. It all depends on which side of your brain is dominant.
And really? Some of you need to check your own spelling before trying to call people stupid.
I did this in science at school because we had to do a project about eyes/colours and I was the best in the class.
This is very interesting to me since english is not my native language, I still get confused but I don’t say the tranlation of the word, instead I say the word that is similar to that in portuguese(exemple: Purple-”Preto” black in portuguese) or I say the word itself in english, even if I’m saying the collor out loud in portuguese. Wierd uh?