Stroop Task
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English version of the color word stroop task using keyboard input.
This sample runs a Stroop task with in which participants verbally name the color of the words as in the original version of the task.
The Stroop color naming task using recorded verbal responses.
The emotiona stroop task for adolescents used in the ABCD Consortium's longitudinal study on cognitive development from childhood to early adulthood.
The emotional stroop task for adolescents used in the ABCD Consortium's longitudinal study on cognitive development from childhood to early adulthood.
The emotiona stroop task for adolescents used in the ABCD Consortium's longitudinal study on cognitive development from childhood to early adulthood.
The Alcohol Stroop Task using keyboard input as created by Bauer & Cox (1998).
The Alcohol Stroop Task using voice input as created by Bauer & Cox (1998).
This implements an Auditory Stroop designed by Morgan & Brandt (1989) in which respondents judge acoustic properties (pitch, loudness, duration) of auditory stimuli.
This implements an Auditory Stroop designed by Green & Barber (1981) in which respondents judge the gender of the speaker for auditory stimuli.
The emotional stroop task described by Smith & Waterman (2003) using manual keyboard responding.
The emotional stroop task described by Smith & Waterman (2003) using recorded verbal responding.
The Food Stroop Task for measuring interference of food-related words on the peformance of a Stroop task. Thanks to Dr. Elissa Epel and Nana Lea O’Donnell at UCSF for providing the stimuli and guidance on this procedure. This version uses keyboard responding.
The Food Stroop Task for measuring interference of food-related words on the peformance of a Stroop task. Thanks to Dr. Elissa Epel and Nana Lea O’Donnell at UCSF for providing the stimuli and guidance on this procedure. This version uses verbal responding.
Implementation of the Fruit Stroop (Okuzumi et al, 2015), a test to investigate selective attention and response inhibition. This script uses 4 fruits/vegetables (4 colors) instead of three.
References
Search Google Scholar for peer-reviewed, published research using the Inquisit Stroop Task.
Stroop, J, R. (1935). Studies of interference in serial verbal reactions. Journal of Experimental Psychology, 18, 643-662.
Jensen, A. R., Rohwer, W. D. (1966). The Stroop color-word test: a review. Acta psychologica, 25, 36–93.
Golden, C. J. (1978). Stroop Color and Word Test: A Manual for Clinical and Experimental Uses. Chicago, Illinois: Skoelting. pp. 1–32.
Green, E.J. & Barber, P.J. (1981). An auditory Stroop effect with judgments of speaker gender. Perception &Psychophysics, 30, 459-466.
Morgan, A.A.R. & Brandt, J.F. (1989). An Auditory Stroop Effect for Pitch, Loudness, and Time. BRAIN AND LANGUAGE 36, 592-603.
MacLeod C.M. (1991). Half a century of research on the Stroop effect: an integrative review. Psychological Bulletin, 109, 163–203.
Stetter, F., Ackermann, K., Bizer, A., Straube, E. R., & Mann, K. (January 01, 1995). Effects of disease-related cues in alcoholic inpatients: results of a controlled "Alcohol Stroop" study. Alcoholism, Clinical and Experimental Research, 19, 3, 593-9.
Williams, J. M., Mathews, A., & MacLeod, C. (January 01, 1996). The emotional Stroop task and psychopathology. Psychological Bulletin, 120, 1, 3-24.
Bauer, D. & Cox, W.M. (1998). Alcohol-relatedwords are distracting to both alcohol abusers and non-abusers in the Stroop colournaming task. Addiction, 93, 1539–42.
Davidson, E.J., Wright, P. (2002) Selective processing of weight- and shape-related words in bulimia nervosa: Use of a computerised Stroop test. Eating Behaviors, 3, 261-273.
Pérez-Edgar, K., & Fox, N. A. (January 01, 2003). Individual differences in children's performance during an emotional Stroop task: a behavioral and electrophysiological study. Brain and Cognition, 52, 1, 33-51.
Smith, P. & Waterman, M. (2003). Processing bias for aggression words in forensic and nonforensic samples. Cognition and Emotion, 17, 681-701.
Cannon, B. J. (January 01, 2003). An emotional Stroop effect to malingering-related words. Perceptual and Motor Skills, 96, 3, 827-34.
Dobson, K.S., Dozois, D.J.A. (2004). Attentional biases in eating disorders: A meta-analytic review of Stroop performance. Clinical Psychology Review, 23, 1001-1022.
Johansson, L., Ghaderi, A., Andersson, G. (2005). Stroop interference for food- and body-related words: a meta-analysis. Eating Behaviors, 6, 271-281.
Strauss, G., Allen, D., Jorgensen, M., & Cramer, S. (January 01, 2005). Test-Retest Reliability of Standard and Emotional Stroop Tasks. Assessment, 12, 3, 330-337.
Rofey, D., Corcoran, K. J., & Kavanagh, G. (January 01, 2006). Alcohol Expectancy and Sex Predict Alcohol Relevant Stroop Interference. Addictive Disorders and Their Treatment, 5, 4, 173-178.
Field, M., Christiansen, P., Cole, J., & Goudie, A. (April 01, 2007). RESEARCH REPORT: Delay discounting and the alcohol Stroop in heavy drinking adolescents. Addiction, 102, 4, 579-586.
Fadardi, J. S., & Cox, W. M. (January 01, 2009). Reversing the sequence: reducing alcohol consumption by overcoming alcohol attentional bias. Drug and Alcohol Dependence, 101, 3, 137-45.
Nijs, I.M.T., Franken, I.H.A., Muris, P. (2010). Food-related Stroop interference in obese and normal-weight individuals: Behavioral and electrophysiological indices. Eating Behaviors, In Press.
Price RB, Siegle G, Mohlman J. (2012). Emotional stroop performance in older adults: effects of habitual worry. American Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry, 20, 798-805.
Isaac L, Vrijsen JN, Eling P, van Oostrom I, Speckens A, Becker ES (2012). Verbal and facial-emotional Stroop tasks reveal specific attentional interferences in sad mood. Brain and behavior, 2, 74-83.
Witthöft M, Mier D, Ofer J, Müller T, Rist F, Kirsch P, Bailer J, Diener C (2013). Neuronal and Behavioral Correlates of Health Anxiety: Results of an Illness-Related Emotional Stroop Task. Neuropsychobiology, 67, 93-102.
Okuzumi, H., Ikeda, Y., Otsuka, N., Saito, R., Oi, Y., Hirata, S., Haishi, K., & Kokubun, M. (2015). Stroop-Like Interference in the Fruit Stroop Test in Typical Development. Psychology (Irvine, Calif.), 6(5), 643–649. https://doi.org/10.4236/psych.2015.65062
Luciana, M, Bjork, J.M, Nagel, B.J, Barch, D.M, Gonzalez, R, Nixon, S.J, & Banich, M.T. (2018). Adolescent neurocognitive development and impacts of substance use: Overview of the adolescent brain cognitive development (ABCD) baseline neurocognition battery. Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience, 32, 67-79.