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Jaap van der Meere1, Norbert A Borger, Silja Pirila
1University of Groningen, The Netherlands. j.j.van.der.meere@rug.nl
Abstract:
The ability to deal with sources of conflict, that is, interference control, was evaluated in a group of 11 children with first episode Major Depression and a peer control group. To this end, the Eriksen and Schultz (1979) task was used. Here, the participant is presented with a stimulus that simultaneously activates two conflicting response channels: One response is activated by the instructions, whereas the other response is activated by elements in the array that strongly invite an alternative - yet incorrect - response. Findings provided no evidence for an undisturbed interference control nor impaired overall processing speed in children with first episode Major Depression.
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