Age-related differences in information, but not task control in the color-word Stroop task.

ABSTRACT: Older adults were found to struggle with tasks that require cognitive control. One task that measures the ability to exert cognitive control is the color-word Stroop task. Almost all studies that tested cognitive control in older adults using the Stroop task have focused on one type of control - Information control. In the present work, we ask whether older adults also show a deficit in another type of cognitive control - Task control. To that end, we tested older and younger adults by isolating and measuring two types of conflict - information conflict and task conflict. Information conflict was measured by the difference between color identification of incongruent color words and color identification of neutral words, while task conflict was measured by the difference between color ident

SUBMITTER: Keha E 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12325456 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature