Continued inhibitory capacity throughout adulthood: conceptual negative priming in younger and older adults.
Psychol Aging
; 12(4): 667-74, 1997 Dec.
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ABSTRACT
Two negative priming experiments in older and younger adults are reported. Participants in Experiment 1, involving both positive and negative priming conditions, showed both types of priming. There were 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. Our findings rule out possible effects of experimental conditions that episodic retrieval theorists have suggested might account for negative priming in older adults. Although our results may be consistent with an explanation of negative priming in older adults by an expansively specified theory of episodic retrieval, they are at least as consistent with the view that inhibitory processes are intact in older adults. In light of these findings, conflicting empirical results and alternative views of negative priming in older adults are examined.
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Banco de datos:
MEDLINE
Asunto principal:
Atención
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Volición
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Envejecimiento
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Señales (Psicología)
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Aprendizaje Discriminativo
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Inhibición Psicológica
Tipo de estudio:
Clinical_trials
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Observational_studies
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Prevalence_studies
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Risk_factors_studies
Límite:
Adult
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Aged
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Female
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Humans
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Male
Idioma:
En
Año:
1997
Tipo del documento:
Article