Previous research by Hazan-Liran & Miller (2017) developed a new Stroop-like task to examine how ink colours as task-irrelevant information affects paired-associate learning (see also Miller, Hazan-Liran, & Cohen, 2018). The task was to learn word-number pairs (e.g. blue-5) whilst only numbers were coloured in either congruent ink colours (e.g. number 5 printed in blue ink), incongruent ink colours (e.g. 5 printed in brown ink) or neutral ink colours (e.g. 5 printed in black ink). The present paper refers to this task as the Associative Memory Stroop Task (AMST). Hazan-Liran & Miller (2017) found that incongruent ink colours interfere and congruent ink colour facilitate the speed of learning word-number pairs. The present experiments employed the AMST to examine the effects of irrelevant ink colours (with colour names) on memory accuracy in cued recall and associative recognition. Memory impairment was found with incongruent ink colours on both memory tests whilst improved memory accuracy with congruent ink colours was not reliable. We discuss possible explanations for these findings.

Hazan-Liran＆Miller（2017）的先前研究开发了一种类似于Stroop的任务，以检查与任务无关的墨水颜色如何影响配对学习（另请参见Miller，Hazan-Liran，＆Cohen，2018）。现在的任务是学习单词数对（例如蓝色- 5），而只有数字是在任一全等墨水颜色的着色（例如数5印刷在蓝色墨水），不一致的墨颜色（例如5棕色油墨印刷）或中性油墨颜色（例如5用黑色墨水打印）。本文将此任务称为关联内存Stroop任务（AMST）。Hazan-Liran＆Miller（2017）发现不一致的墨水颜色会干扰，一致的墨水颜色会促进学习单词-数字对的速度。本实验使用AMST来检查无关的油墨颜色（带有颜色名称）对提示记忆和联想识别的存储精度的影响。在两种记忆测试中均发现不一致的墨水颜色会导致记忆障碍，而采用一致的墨水颜色来提高记忆准确度是不可靠的。我们讨论了这些发现的可能解释。