Introduction: research on attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) has shown alterations in interference control, which would explain the difficulties of children with ADHD to inhibit distracting stimuli and regulate their behavior. Objective: identifying available scientific literature about performance on task that evaluate the interference control in children with ADHD. Method: a search on Pubmed, Scopus and Web of Science databases with the terms ADHD, interference control, Stroop and Flanker, published between 2010 and 2017 was performed. 520 articles were identified, after applying the inclusion and exclusion criteria 33 articles were selected for descriptive analysis. Results: interference control is affected in children with ADHD, evidenced in greater reaction and execution times, variability of response and a high errors rate, primarily in incongruent trials. Altered cortical activation patterns and variations in cognitive evoked potentials were also shown. Conclusions: Interference control is altered in children with ADHD, the use of more than one evaluation method may be useful to provide more information on the functioning of interference control in terms of time and accuracy on tasks.