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In this investigation I've found out that the when the card and the word shown is different, it affects our thinking, which it takes longer time than a normal memory game. My hypothesis does fit with the result that I've found, which I found out that native English speaker has a short amount of time difference compare to the people who are in the ESL, therefore I've also found out some interesting point out of this investigation, which is the people whose mother tongue is not English, therefore their English is as good as their mother tongue, they have the similar results to the people who are native English speakers.

From this investigation I've found out that the words themselves have a strong influence over your ability to see the colour and this is called interference. The interference between different information which is what the word says and the colour of the words shown, your brain receives causes a problem to it.

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Which they are two theories that can explain the effects. First theory will be the speed, interference occurs because words are read faster than colours are name. Another theory will be selective, which interference occurs because naming colours requires more attention than reading words. When we look at one of the words, you see both its colour and meaning, if two piece of evidence are in conflict; you have to make a choice, because experience has taught you word meaning is more important than ink colour.

The task of making an appropriate response when giving two conflicting signals have tentatively been located in part of brain called anterior cingulated.

This is a region that lies between right and left halves of the frontal portion of the brain. It involves wide range of thought process and emotional responses. The people who's English is not as good as their mother tongue has not much affect on it, because two languages share a modality, so there is no requirement to translate them. On the other hand, people who are still learning English the argument is made to the target information which it must be translated into the appropriate classification modality, and that is the reason why it takes longer time for the people who's still learning English.

The table of results from this experiment has supported me with my hypothesis. In my results the native English speakers have a similar use of time, therefore Alana used more time compare to Emily, because in matched cards Alana already took longer time than Emily did, which it shows that Emily has a better memory than Alana in the first place, so the increase of the amount of the for Emily is also less than Alana. And also it is an anomalous result in my investigation, which I didn't think about the people who speaks English as good as their mother tongue, but English is not their first language.

For those people, the interference of two conflicts in our brain did have some affect on them, but not much just like the native English speakers. Therefore, for the ESL students who are still learning English compare to their time usage in the matching cards, they spent a really long time on the other set of cards which is the unmatching one. Therefore, I've found that Na Yeon can speak good language but not perfectly good, so her time difference between the matched and unmatched colour wasn't that much compare to Byoung Seok, who has only studied English for a short amount of time.

Based on the above results it can be seen that there are many values within two significant figures of each other. Therefore repeating values can be disregarded. Another data table can be created to represent the data from the experiment. Note that the symbol "E -X" represents the value being multiplied by 10 to the power of -X. The differences in data are shown in Table 2. Note that the bottom value has been subtracted by the top value to show the difference in charges, or the step value.