As the Stroop effect shows, automatic reading can even stop you from doing the thing you’re trying to do (say the colour of the letters, in this case), and you have no way to turn it off! It was even proposed as a way to find Soviet spies by proving if someone could read Russian. The prison of literacy could have put you into a literal prison!
As the Stroop effect shows, automatic reading can even stop you from doing the thing you’re trying to do (say the colour of the letters, in this case), and you have no way to turn it off! It was even proposed as a way to find Soviet spies by proving if someone could read Russian. The prison of literacy could have put you into a literal prison!