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Sound
Each Play button uses your device's default local English voice, or a natural local fallback. The selected voice name appears after playback. This is synthesized speech, not a source recording.
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noun
The effect that a subject has a longer reaction time when naming the colours of words if the words describe colours other than their own (such as "red" printed in blue ink).
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Topics: human-sciences, psychology, sciences
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History
After John Ridley Stroop, who first published the effect in English in 1935.
