title: When Stroop helps Piaget: An inter-task positive priming paradigm in 9-year-old children.
abstract: To determine whether inhibitory control is domain general or domain specific in school children, we asked 40 9-year-old children to perform an inter-task priming paradigm in which they responded to Stroop items on the primes and to Piaget number conservation items on the probes. The children were more efficient in the inhibition of a misleading "length-equals-number" heuristic in the number conservation task if they had successfully inhibited a previous prepotent reading response in the Stroop task. This study provides evidence that the inhibitory control ability of school children generalizes to distinct cognitive domains, that is, verbal for the Stroop task and logico-mathematical for Piaget's number conservation task.
authors.affiliation: Laboratory for the Psychology of Child Development and Education (LaPsyDÉ), CNRS Unit 8240, 75005 Paris, France; Institut de Psychologie, University Paris Descartes, 75006 Paris, France; University of Caen Basse-Normandie, 14032 Caen, France.
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Linzarini
authors.affiliation: Laboratory for the Psychology of Child Development and Education (LaPsyDÉ), CNRS Unit 8240, 75005 Paris, France; Institut de Psychologie, University Paris Descartes, 75006 Paris, France; University of Caen Basse-Normandie, 14032 Caen, France; Institut Universitaire de France, 75005 Paris, France.
authors.forename: O
authors.initials: O
authors.lastname: Houdé
authors.affiliation: Laboratory for the Psychology of Child Development and Education (LaPsyDÉ), CNRS Unit 8240, 75005 Paris, France; Institut de Psychologie, University Paris Descartes, 75006 Paris, France; University of Caen Basse-Normandie, 14032 Caen, France. Electronic address: gregoire.borst@parisdescartes.fr.
authors.forename: G
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Borst
mesh_terms: D001288:Attention / Q000502:physiology*; D002648:Child; D003071:Cognition / Q000502:physiology; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007266:Inhibition, Psychological; D008297:Male; D008433:Mathematics; D009483:Neuropsychological Tests; D011932:Reading
keywords: Children; Domain general; Inhibitory control; Number conservation; Piaget; Stroop task