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Citation

Ben-David BM, Nguyen LL, van Lieshout PH. J. Int. Neuropsychol. Soc. 2011; 17(2): 354-363.

Affiliation

1Oral Dynamics Laboratory, Department of Speech-Language Pathology, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2011, Cambridge University Press)

DOI

10.1017/S135561771000175X

PMID

21320377

Abstract

The color word Stroop test is the most common tool used to assess selective attention in persons with traumatic brain injury (TBI). A larger Stroop effect for TBI patients, as compared to controls, is generally interpreted as reflecting a decrease in selective attention. Alternatively, it has been suggested that this increase in Stroop effects is influenced by group differences in generalized speed of processing (SOP). The current study describes an overview and meta-analysis of 10 studies, where persons with TBI (N = 324) were compared to matched controls (N = 501) on the Stroop task. The findings confirmed that Stroop interference was significantly larger for TBI groups (p = .008). However, these differences may be strongly biased by TBI-related slowdown in generalized SOP (r2 = .81 in a Brinley analysis). We also found that TBI-related changes in sensory processing may affect group differences. Mainly, a TBI-related increase in the latency difference between reading and naming the font color of a color-neutral word (r2 = .96) was linked to Stroop effects. Our results suggest that, in using Stroop, it seems prudent to control for both sensory factors and SOP to differentiate potential changes in selective attention from other changes following TBI. (JINS, 2011, 17, 1-10).


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