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Continued inhibitory capacity throughout adulthood
— conceptual negative priming in younger and older adults | | Author(s) | Carmi Schooler, Ewald Neumann, Leslie J Caplan |
| Journal title | Psychology and Aging, vol 12, no 4, December 1997 |
| Pages | pp 667-674 |
| Keywords | Cognitive processes ; Mental speed ; Age groups [elderly] ; Young adults [20-25] ; Testing ; United States of America. |
| Annotation | Negative priming refers to slowed or less accurate responses on a probe trial to an item that served as an ignored irrelevant item in a preceding prime trial. The authors question the existence of hypothesised dysfunctions in the inhibitory component of selective attention in older adults, using two negative priming experiments. In Experiment 1, involving positive and negative priming conditions, participants showed both types of priming, with no significant differences between age groups. If anything, older participants showed more negative priming. In Experiment 2 involving only negative priming conditions, similar results were obtained. The authors rule out possible effects of experimental conditions which episodic retrieval theorists have suggested might account for negative priming in older adults. The results obtained are consistent with the view that inhibitory processes are intact in older adults. Conflicting empirical results and alternative views of negative priming in older adults are examined. |
| Accession Number | CPA-980225004 A |
| Classmark | DA: DG: BB: SD6: 3T: 7T |
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