A non-reading variation of the Stroop color-word test was given to 18 children with reading disability and 18 individually age-matched normal readers. Although the interference effect was observed in both groups of Ss, the intensity of the effect did not differ between groups. These results suggest that children with reading disability are distracted no more than are normal readers by competing elements of the stimulus-field.
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