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Further evidence that negative priming in the Stroop color-word task is equivalent in older and younger adults
Author(s)	Deborah M Little, Alan A Hartley
Journal title	Psychology and Aging, vol 15, no 1, March 2000
Pages	pp 9-17
Keywords	Mental speed ; Mental clarity ; Age groups [elderly] ; Young adults [20-25] ; Testing ; United States of America.
Annotation	In two experiments, possible adult age differences in negative priming were explored using several variants of the Stroop colour-word task. Negative priming was at least as high in the older adults as in the younger adults in every variant. Negative priming varied as a function of condition, but the age equivalence was unaffected. This result was true even when the possibility of general slowing was taken into account. Across conditions, interference and negative priming were positively correlated. The results do not permit a clear choice between the two major theoretical explanations of negative priming, inhibition and memory retrieval; they do show that negative priming can be systematically manipulated within an experimental paradigm. (RH).
Accession Number	CPA-000613402 A
Classmark	DG: DF: BB: SD6: 3T: 7T
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