Age-related trends in Stroop and conflicting motor response task findings
| Autor: | Francesca Nichelli, Gabriella Scala, Daria Riva, Sara Bulgheroni, Chiara Vago |
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| Rok vydání: | 2005 |
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Psychological Tests Age Factors Cognition behavioral disciplines and activities Task (project management) Test (assessment) Correlation Inhibition Psychological Neuropsychology and Physiological Psychology Motor Skills Age related Pediatrics Perinatology and Child Health Reaction Time Developmental and Educational Psychology Humans Female Psychological testing Child Psychology psychological phenomena and processes Motor skill Cognitive psychology Stroop effect |
| Zdroj: | Child Neuropsychology. 11:431-443 |
| ISSN: | 1744-4136 0929-7049 |
| Popis: | Inhibition problems are reportedly at the heart of several childhood pathologies and learning disorders, but few instruments are available for their in-depth investigation. The main aim of the present study was to investigate the development of a capacity to inhibit automatic responses in young and middle childhood. For this purpose, 100 children between 6 and 11 years old were administered two tests that measure executive inhibition: an animal Stroop task (in a paper-and-pencil version of the computerized original proposed by Wright and colleagues in 2003) and a conflicting motor response task. Our results indicate that performance clearly improves in both tests during the course of a child's development and the data obtained with the paper-and-pencil animal Stroop task overlap with those obtained with the computerized version. When the task calls for a stronger inhibitory control (the incongruent situation in the Stroop task and in the opposite condition in the conflicting motor response test) the trend of the response times is less homogeneous, peaking in the youngest and oldest age brackets considered. The positivity and significance of the correlation coefficients between the two tests also suggest that the two measures are tapping cognitive abilities that are developing in a parallel fashion. |
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