On the nonselectivity of "Selective" seeing : Contrasts between interference and priming in selective attention.

Increasing the physical distinction between targets and distractors can eliminate Stroop interference, which has prompted claims that noninterfering distractors are not identified. However, such claims assumed that identification always produces interference. The contrast between interference and priming measures of the distractor processing urges reconsideration of many data previously held as evidence that distractors can be completely filtered out.