title: Individual differences in children's performance during an emotional Stroop task: a behavioral and electrophysiological study.
abstract: Two studies using the emotional Stroop with 11-year-old children were completed. In Study 1, children were assigned to either the "interference group" or the "facilitation group" based on their performance on the task. The interference group was slower to respond to emotion words (positive and negative) versus control words. The facilitation group was faster to respond to the emotion words. The groups were then compared on a set of cognitive, emotional, and social measures collected at ages 4, 7, and 11. The interference group showed greater signs of emotional and social, but not cognitive, maladjustment across time. Study 2 replicated the findings of Study 1. In addition, event-related potentials (ERPs) were collected in Study 2. The ERP data replicated earlier traditional Stroop studies. In addition, positive and negative words showed differences in processing across components. In particular, negative words appeared to tax attentional and processing resources more than positive words.
authors.affiliation: Department of Human Development, Child Development Laboratory, University of Maryland, 3304 Benjamin Building, College Park, MD 20742, USA.
authors.forename: Koraly
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Pérez-Edgar
authors.forename: Nathan A
authors.initials: NA
authors.lastname: Fox
mesh_terms: D000339:Affect / Q000502:physiology*; D001288:Attention / Q000502:physiology; D001921:Brain / Q000033:anatomy & histology / Q000378:metabolism; D002648:Child; D002652:Child Behavior / Q000502:physiology; D002675:Child, Preschool; D003071:Cognition / Q000502:physiology; D004569:Electroencephalography; D005071:Evoked Potentials / Q000502:physiology*; D005260:Female; D005500:Follow-Up Studies; D006801:Humans; D008279:Magnetic Resonance Imaging; D008297:Male; D010988:Play and Playthings; D011581:Psychological Tests; D012917:Social Adjustment; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires; D013694:Temperament; D014055:Tomography, Emission-Computed; D014825:Vocabulary