Jasper Johns, Periscope (Hart Crane), 1963 Monochrome is the "wrong" color for a Stroop test. It's a Stroop painting and a gray painting. Field Painting is a combine with 3D letters, one a neon light. Do something else to it" to the Stroop effect. Meanwhile Johns applied his maxim, "Take an object. Similar Stroop tests are used to gauge reactions to buzzwords in political ads and the hazards of texting and driving. Someone who had just eaten has less of a problem, as quantified by the time it takes to name the colors. When they are foods ( HAMBURGER, PIZZA) a hungry subject is distracted by the semantic content and struggles to name the colors she sees. Today the Stroop effect is used to study distraction, anxiety, and information overload-the holy trinity of our digital age. After getting his Ph.D., he left psychology to become a bible scholar and preacher in his native Tennessee and surrounding states.ĭespite his brief psychological career, Stroop's name is known to every Psychology 101 student. He easily could have known of Johns' paintings, but I've not read anything indicating that he did. Johns has retained both in his personal collection. The Broad's "Jasper Johns: 'Something Resembling Truth'" includes several major Stroop effect paintings, such as False Start (1959) and Field Painting (1963-64). It inaugurated the artist's use of visual illusions and ambiguity. Jasper Johns learned of the Stroop effect and adopted it as a motif in the late 1950s. A typical reaction to Stroop's test is nervous laughter. The left brain struggles to say "blue" when the retina sees RED. The challenge is to call out the colors rather than read the words. You are presented with a list of color names in the "wrong" color of ink (or pixels). He invented a classic demonstration of cognitive dissonance. ![]() In 1929 Stroop was working towards a Ph.D. ![]() ![]() John Ridley Stroop (1897-1973) has had a small but estimable influence on art history via a fellow Southerner, Jasper Johns.
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