A new emotional Stroop-like task: Application to the Down syndrome population

Archives of Clinical Neuropsychology

Volumn 24, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 293-300

  Hippolyte, Loyse ^a,b   Iglesias, Katia ^a   Barisnikov, Koviljka ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GENEVA   (Switzerland)

^b NONE   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Down syndrome; Emotion; Facial expression; Inhibition; Stroop like task

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOWN SYNDROME; EMOTION; FEMALE; HUMAN; LATENT PERIOD; LINGUISTICS; MALE; PERFORMANCE; RESPONSE TIME; STROOP LIKE TASK; TASK PERFORMANCE;

EID: 69249141427     PISSN: 08876177     EISSN: 18735843     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/arclin/acp036     Document Type: Article

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