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JOURNAL OF THE INTERNATIONAL NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL SOCIETY
Volume 15, Issue 3, Pages 451-458Publisher
CAMBRIDGE UNIV PRESS
DOI: 10.1017/S1355617709090730
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Neuropsychological tests; Demyelinating diseases; Cognition; Attention; Information processing speed; Cognitive impairment
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Deficits in multiple sclerosis (MS) patients' performance oil the Stroop Test have been attributed to problems with processing speed and selective attention. Data for 248 MS patients and 178 controls on all three trials of the Stroop were combined using various scoring formulas proposed for assessing processing speed, color difficulty, and interference. The greatest differences between patients and controls involved processing speed. Formulas purporting to measure interference yielded highly inconsistent results: Significant differences between groups were found oil two of the most common measures but were in opposite directions. This contradiction stem; from the failure of both measures to effectively control for processing speed when assessing interference. Three alternative measures, using relative, ratio, and residualized scores, offer much better indices of interference. When assessed with these alternative measures, interference increased with age, but no differences between patients and controls were found. Difficulties that MS patients have with the Stroop Test are confined to processing speed. (JINS, 2009, 15, 451-458.)
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