title: Stroop interference in adults with dyslexia.
abstract: Prior research on developmental dyslexia using Stroop tasks with young participants has found increased interference in participants with dyslexia relative to controls. Here we extend these findings to adult participants, and introduce a novel test of Stroop incongruity, whereby the color names appeared on an object colored in the incongruent color. The results imply that impaired inhibitory and executive attentional mechanisms are still deficient in adults with dyslexia and that other forms of attentional mechanisms, such as object-based attention, might also be impaired in dyslexia. Dyslexia arises not only from deficits in phonological processing, but from attentional mechanisms as well.
authors.affiliation: a Department of Psychology , University of Bath , Bath BA2 7AY , UK.
authors.forename: Michael J
authors.initials: MJ
authors.lastname: Proulx
authors.forename: Hannah-May
authors.initials: HM
authors.lastname: Elmasry
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D001288:Attention; D004410:Dyslexia / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000523:psychology*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D011597:Psychomotor Performance; D011930:Reaction Time; D057190:Stroop Test; D014796:Visual Perception; D055815:Young Adult
keywords: Stroop; dyslexia; executive attention; interference; reading