Ian Clark <[email protected]> wrote: > William Tanksley, Jr wrote: >> Humans don't process color with the same circuits that process text > Doesn't the Stroop Effect > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stroop_effect suggest they do? > (Tightly-linked circuits, at least.)
"Circuit" is perhaps a misleading term for what's going on -- but the Stroop effect is what I was indeed referring to. My point is that when you attempt to read a token that has both color and textual information, you can't read both in one glance -- you have to look once at the color, then look again at the text, then carefully think about the two in isolation to make sure you don't mess them up, then combine them to make sure you extract the correct meaning. It's a slow, serial process that's inherently highly prone to cognitive error. Therefore, -Wm ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm
