Schizophrenia and reverse-Stroop interference in the group version of the Stroop and reverse-Stroop test

Previous stiudies showed that attentional task performance of schizopherenics was significantly inferior to that of normals. The classical Stroop Color-Word Interference Test is an example of such attentional tasks and performance on the “reverse” Stroop task is reported to discriminate schizo-pherenics from normals better than the regular Stroop task. These results suggest that schizophrenics are more susceptive to “reverse” Stroop interference in reading incongruent word-color combinations than normals. The group version of the Stroop and reverse-Stroop Color-Word Test, where the respose is to choose a matching alternative, was used to test the hypothesis. The results virtually supported the hypothesis. In addition, interference was closely related to the patient's control of impulsiveness. It was suggested that schizophrenics have generation (or translation) deficits between differents codes.