1 The seminal works on interference effects include “Studies of Interference in Serial Verbal Reactions” by James R. Stroop, Journal of Experimental Psychology, 1935, vol. 28, p. 643–662; “Stimulus Configuration in Selective Attention Tasks” by James R. Pomerantz and Wendell R. Garner, Perception & Psychophysics, 1973, vol. 14, p. 565–569; and “Characteristics of Word Encoding” by Delos D. Wickens, in Coding Processes in Human Memory edited by A. W. Melton and E. Martin, V. H. Winston, 1972, p. 191–215.

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