Stroop-Like Interference in the Fruit Stroop Test in Typical Development

Abstract

This study examined Stroop-like interference in the fruit Stroop test among 271 5 -12-year-old children and young adults divided into five age groups: 64 5 -6-year-olds, 65 7 -8-year-olds, 60 9 -10-year-olds, 46 11 -12-year-olds, and 36 young adults (18 -23-year-olds). Participants were ad-ministered a paper-and-pencil version of the fruit Stroop test, which includes the canonical color task, the superficial color task, and the fruit name task. In these tasks, participants were presented with line-drawings of fruits having strongly associated colors (e.g., yellow banana) and were asked to name the ink colors of the fruits, name the colors the fruit " should be " , or read the fruit name. The results indicated robust interference in the canonical color task of the fruit Stroop test, sug-gesting that this task is useful to assess individual differences of inhibitory control in typical de-velopment.