Normative data for healthy older adults and an abbreviated version of the Stroop test

Clin Neuropsychol. 2013;27(2):276-89. doi: 10.1080/13854046.2012.742930. Epub 2012 Dec 24.

Abstract

Normative data for the Kaplan version of the Stroop Test are presented for 153 healthy, cognitively intact older adults aged 50-89 years. Increasing age was associated with decreased performance on all three subtests (Stroop A, Stroop B, and Stroop C), while years of education was only associated with Stroop B performance. Hence the normative data were stratified by age into three groups (50-64, 65-74, 75-89). Completion times for the first half of each trial (half-time scores) were found to have good split-half reliability and correlated highly with the original full administration scores. Means and standard deviations for the half-time administration are also presented for this sample. The current study provides more comprehensive normative data for older adults than previously available, as well as normative information for half-time scores that may have future clinical utility as an alternative, abbreviated version of the Kaplan Stroop Test.

Publication types

  • Research Support, N.I.H., Extramural
  • Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
  • Research Support, U.S. Gov't, Non-P.H.S.

MeSH terms

  • Age Factors
  • Aged
  • Aged, 80 and over
  • Aging / psychology*
  • Executive Function / physiology*
  • Female
  • Humans
  • Male
  • Middle Aged
  • Reaction Time / physiology*
  • Reference Values
  • Reproducibility of Results
  • Stroop Test*