The Stroop effect is a phenomenon where it takes longer to name a word's colour when the text colour doesn't match the word. It's a fun way to learn how ...

The 13 participants took the Stroop test three times a week apart — the first time without pooping beforehand, the second time an hour after going to the bathroom and the third time with the ...

American English speakers pronounce the sticky delicacy as STROHP-wah-fuhl, which is nearest the way the Dutch say it, while the Brits call it a STROOP-woff-uh, much in the way they mispronounce the ...

With the help of Rick Mahurin of the Battelle Seattle Research Center, NOVA has made available a Shockwave demonstration of the Stroop Test. In the demonstration you will be presented with three ...

The latest research involved 13 triathletes, a cognitive test called the Stroop test, and a magnesium oxide laxative. The result? The athletes performed measurably better on the cognitive test after ...

When presented with a word like "red" printed in blue ink, you have to actively suppress the urge to read the word "red" and instead focus on the colour of the ink (blue), which takes more ...

如果你想在认知和体能上都取得更好的表现，那么首先要做的是——去厕所排便。没错，这是最新的两项研究得出的结论：如果你即将参加铁人三项比赛，排便不仅能让你跑得更快，还能让你变得更聪明。

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Kayten Stroop received a Virginia’s New Year’s Millionaire Raffle ticket as a Christmas gift from her boyfriend’s mother, and it turned out to ...

Given the current studies, researchers hypothesized that there would be an improvement in young triathletes' Stroop performance—a cognitive test—after pooping, using a magnesium oxide supplement.