An asymmetric stroop/reverse-stroop interference phenomenon in ADHD.
OBJECTIVE
To examine whether participants with ADHD showed a deficit in Stroop/reverse-Stroop interference by comparing them to non-ADHD participants.


METHODS
A group with ADHD, primarily inattentive type (n = 15), and a paired non-ADHD group (n = 15) completed the group version of the Stroop/reverse-Stroop test.


RESULTS
Asymmetric interference was observed between the Stroop test and the reverse-Stroop test in ADHD participants, presenting evidence contrary to Barkley's behavioral inhibition model of ADHD in which response inhibition deficits pertained only to the ADHD-C subtype.


CONCLUSIONS
Participants with ADHD showed a control deficit in reverse-Stroop interference but not in Stroop interference.
Song
Yongning
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Kyushu University, Fukouoka, Japan. he308049@s.kyushu-u.ac.jp
Hakoda
Yuji
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D000293:Adolescent; D001289:Attention Deficit Disorder with Hyperactivity / Q000523:psychology*; D002648:Child; D003118:Color Perception / Q000502:physiology*; D056344:Executive Function; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007266:Inhibition, Psychological; D008297:Male; D009483:Neuropsychological Tests; D011930:Reaction Time