It is unknown to what extent the performance on the Stroop color-word test is affected by reduced visual function in older individuals. We tested the impact of common deficiencies in visual function (reduced distant and close acuity, reduced contrast sensitivity, and color weakness) on Stroop performance among 821 normal individuals aged 53 and older. After adjustment for age, sex, and educatio...

Evidence is provided that players pay at least as much attention to a set of procedurally generated Sokoban levels as they do to levels hand crafted by expert designers. Data were collected from 40 participants who played Sokoban under laboratory conditions while simultaneously performing an auditory Stroop test. Three performance measures from the Stroop test were analyzed and compared after a...

The aim of this study was to analyze the performance of Spanish-English bilinguals on the Golden Stroop Test. The effects of bilingualism, participants' age, age of acquisition of the second language, and proficiency in each language were analyzed. Participants consisted of 71 Spanish-English bilinguals, 40 English monolinguals, and 11 Spanish monolinguals from South Florida. Proficiency in Spa...

CONTEXT Determination of return to play (RTP) after sport-related concussion (SRC) is critical given the potential consequences of premature RTP. Current RTP guidelines may not identify persistent exercise-induced neurocognitive deficits in asymptomatic athletes after SRC. Therefore, postexercise neurocognitive testing has been recommended to further inform RTP determination. To implement this ...

The ability to resist distraction is an important requirement for air traffic controllers. The present study examined the relationship between performance on the Stroop color-word interference test (a suggested measure of distraction suscept-iblliity) and impairment under auditory distraction on a task requiring the subject to generate random sequences of letters. Fifty male college students se...

The Stroop task is an excellent tool to test whether reading a word automatically activates its associated meaning, and it has been widely used in mono- and bilingual contexts. Despite of its ubiquity, the task has not yet been employed to test the automaticity of recently established word-concept links in novel-word-learning studies, under strict experimental control of learning and testing co...

Detoxified clients at an alcohol treatment centre (n = 34) were administered a modified Stroop test, an index of attentional bias or distraction. Their performance was compared to controls (n = 33) who were staff recruited from specialist substance misuse clinics based on the presumption of familiarity with the alcohol and addiction related terms of the Stroop task. The card-format Stroop test ...

The Stroop task is a popular neuropsychological test that measures executive control. Strong Stroop interference is commonly interpreted in neuropsychology as a diagnostic marker of impairment in executive control, possibly reflecting executive dysfunction. However, popular models of the Stroop task indicate that several other aspects of color and word processing may also account for individual...