OTTOVILLE — When Ottoville seventh-grader Maizee Brinkman decided to enter the local science fair, she chose a project revolving around a personal complication. “I’ve been having problems with my eyes, so I wanted my project to be something to do with that,” she said. “I decided on the Stroop Effect test because I thought it was really interesting.” The Stroop Effect analyzes reaction times of subjects during certain tasks. Subjects read the names of colors written in corresponding shades of ink, then name the same set of words printed in different colors of ink, like “blue” printed in red. “The Stroop Effect tests our cerebral processes and puts faster processes against slower ones. There have been tests done with male versus female and things like that but I decided to do one about age,” Brinkman said. “I tested 35 subjects between the ages of 6 and 40 and each test was different. My hypothesis was that it would be more difficult for the older subjects to complete the test than the younger.”
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