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The Emotional Word-Emotional Face Stroop Task In The Abcd Study: Psychometric Validation And Associations With Measures Of Cognition And Psychopathology, Harry R. Smolker, Kai Wang, Monica Luciana, James M. Bjork, Raul Gonzalez, Deanna M. B, Erin C. Mcglade, Roselinde H. Kaiser, Naomi P. Friedman, John K. Hewitt, Marie T. Banich

Psychiatry Publications

Characterizing the interactions among attention, cognitive control, and emotion during adolescence may provide important insights into why this critical developmental period coincides with a dramatic increase in risk for psychopathology. However, it has proven challenging to develop a single neurobehavioral task that simultaneously engages and differentially measures these diverse domains. In the current study, we describe properties of performance on the Emotional Word-Emotional Face Stroop (EWEFS) task in the Adolescent Brain Cognitive Development (ABCD) Study, a task that allows researchers to concurrently measure processing speed/attentional vigilance (i.e., performance on congruent trials), inhibitory control (i.e., Stroop interference effect), and emotional information …