Efectos de facilitación e interferencia en el procesamiento de información
ISSN: 0210-9395, 1579-3699
Year of publication: 1988
Issue Title: Psicología Cognitiva
Issue: 35
Pages: 39-46
Type: Article
More publications in: Estudios de Psicología = Studies in Psychology
Abstract
The facilitation and interference effects, often found in the stroop and priming paradigms, allow for the descriptions of those mechanisms underlying mental images and words as different simbol representations. Contrary to an interpretative theory, a constructive theory explains the emergent properties of mental images as deriving from the actualization of the reference provided by the context. Distinguishing between stored knowledge and use of knowledge forces the rejection of Pylyshyn�s approaches to mental image analysis. In this article, as a way of introduction, papers studying the functional basis of the facilitation and interference effects are presented. These effects, empirically specified, are used to characterize the word and picture processing mecanisms. These mechanisms might clarify how the semantic interpretation of mental images is made. In the present article the different nature of strategic prorcesing of pictures and words is shown depending on decision processes as activated from tasks demands.