Continued inhibitory capacity throughout adulthood: Conceptual negative priming in younger and older adults

Psychology and Aging

Volumn 12, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 667-674

  Schooler, Carmi ^a   Neumann, Ewald ^a   Caplan, Leslie J ^a   Roberts, Bruce R ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF MENTAL HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGE; AGED; ARTICLE; COGNITION; COGNITIVE DEFECT; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; REACTION TIME; SELECTIVE ATTENTION; WORKING MEMORY;

ADULT; AGED; AGING; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ASSOCIATION LEARNING; ATTENTION; CONCEPT FORMATION; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; CUES; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; FEMALE; HUMANS; INHIBITION (PSYCHOLOGY); INTERVENTION STUDIES; MALE; MENTAL RECALL; SEMANTICS; VOLITION;

EID: 0031450057     PISSN: 08827974     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/0882-7974.12.4.667     Document Type: Article

References (45)

1. Beech, A., Powell, T., McWilliam, J., & Claridge, G. (1989). Evidence of reduced "cognitive inhibition" in schizophrenia. British Journal of Clinical Psychology, 28, 110-116.
2. Connelly, S. L., & Hasher, L. (1993). Aging and inhibition of spatial location. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 19, 1238-1250.
3. Connelly, S, L., Hasher, L., & Zacks, R. T. (1991). Age and reading: The impact of distraction. Psychology and Aging, 6, 533-541.
4. Dywan, J., & Murphy, W. E. (1996). Aging and inhibitory control in text comprehension. Psychology and Aging, II, 199-206.
5. Faust, M. E., Balota, D. A., & Duchek, J. M. (1996, April). Interference and negative priming : Local-global attention in aging and dementia. Poster sessions presented at trie 6th Biannual Cognitive Aging Conference, Atlanta, GA.
6. Fox, E. (1995). Negative priming from ignored distractors in visual selection: A review. Psychonomic Bulletin and Review, 2, 145-173.
7. Gernsbacher, M. A. (1990). Language comprehension as structure building. Hillsdale, NJ: Erlbaum.
8. Hasher; L., Stoltzfus, E. R., Zacks, R. T., & Rypma, B. (1991). Age and inhibition. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 17, 163-169.
9. Hasher, L., & Zacks, R. T. (1988). Working memory, comprehension, and aging: A review and anew view. In G. Bower (Ed.), The psychology of learning and motivation (pp. 193-225). New York: Academic Press.
10. Kane, M., Hasher, L., Stoltzfus, E. R., Zacks, R. T., & Connelly, S. L. (1994). Inhibitory attentional mechanisms and aging. Psychology and Aging, 9, 103-112.
11. Kane, M. J., May, C. P., Hasher, L., Rahhal, T., & Stoltzfus, E. R. (1997). Dual mechanisms of negative priming. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 23, 632-650.
12. Kramer, A. F., Humphrey, D. G., Larish, J. F., Logan, G. D., & Strayer, D. L. (1994). Aging and inhibition: Beyond a unitary view of inhibitory processing in attention. Psychology and Aging, 9, 491-512.
13. Langley, L. K., Overmier, J. B., Knopman, D. S., & Prod'Homme, M. M. (1996, June). Evidence of negative priming in older adults and individuals with Alzheimer's disease. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Psychological Society, San Francisco.
14. LaPlante, L., Everett, J., & Thomas, J. (1992), Inhibition through negative priming with Stroop stimuli in schizophrenia. British Journal of Clinical Psychology, 31, 307-326.
15. Logan, C. D. (1988). Toward an instance theory of automatization. Psychological Review, 95, 492-527.
16. Logan, G. D. (1990). Repetition priming and automaticity: Common underlying mechanisms? Cognitive Psychology, 22, 1-35.
17. Macrae, C. N., Milne, A. B., & Bodenhausen, G. V. (1995). The dissection of selection in person perception: Inhibitory processes in social stereotyping. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 69, 397-407.
18. May, C. P., Kane, M. J., & Hasher, L. (1995). Determinants of negative priming. Psychological Bulletin, 118, 35-54.
19. McDowd, J. M., & Oseas-Kreger, D. M. (1991). Aging, inhibitory processes, and negative priming. Journal of Gerontology: Psychological Sciences, 46, P340-P345.
20. Moore, C. M. (1994). Negative priming depends on probe-trial conflict: Where has all the inhibition gone? Perception & Psychophysics, 56, 133-147.
21. Neill, W. T., & Valdes, L. A. (1992). The persistence of negative priming: Steady-state or decay? Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 18, 565-576.
22. Neill, W. T., Valdes, L. A., & Terry, K. M. (1995). Selective attention and the inhibitory control of cognition. In F. N. Dempster & C. J. Brainerd (Eds.), New perspectives on interference and inhibition in cognition (pp. 207-261). New York: Academic Press.
23. Neill, W. T., Valdes, L. A., Terry, K. M., & Gorfein, D. S. (1992). The persistence of negative priming: II. Evidence for episodic trace retrieval. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 18, 993-1000.
24. Neill, W. T., & Westberry, R. L. (1987). Selective attention and the suppression of cognitive noise. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 13, 327-334.
25. Neumann, E. (1993, June). Evidence for a relationship between interference and negative priming in selective attention. Poster presented at the Fifth Annual Convention of the American Psychological Society, Chicago.
26. Neumann, E. (1994, August). Compared to within-language priming effects, between-language positive priming disappears, negative priming doesn't. Paper presented at the Third Practical Aspects of Memory Conference, College Park, MD.
27. Neumann, E., Cherau, J. F., Hood, K. L., & Steinnagel, S. L. (1993). Does inhibition spread in a manner analogous to spreading activation? Memory, 1, 81-105.
28. Neumann, E., & DeSchepper, B. G. (1991). Costs and benefits of target activation and distractor inhibition in selective attention. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 17, 1136-1145.
29. Neumann, E., & DeSchepper, B. G. (1992). An inhibition-based fan effect: Evidence for an active suppression mechanism in selective attention. Canadian Journal of Psychology, 46, 11-40.
30. Neumann, E., McCloskey, M. S., & Felio, A. C. (1993). Primed lexical decision tasks: Cross-language positive priming disappears, negative priming doesn't. Manuscript submitted for publication.
31. Posner, M. I., & Cohen, Y. (1984), Components of visual orienting. In H. Bouma & D. Bouwhuis (Eds.), Attention and performance X (pp. 511-556). Hillsdale, NJ: Erlbaum.
32. Rafal, R. D., Calabresi, P., Brennan, C., & Sciolto, T. (1989). Saccade preparation inhibits reorienting to recently attended locations. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 15, 673-685.
33. Salthouse, T. A., & Meinz, E. J. (1995). Aging, inhibition, working memory and speed. Journal of Gerontology: Psychological Sciences, 6, P297-P306.
34. Shiu, L., & Kornblum, S. (1996). Negative priming and stimulus-response compatibility. Psychonomic Bulletin and Review, 3, 510-514.
35. Stadler, M. A., & Hogan, M. E. (1996). Varieties of positive and negative priming. Psychonomic Bulletin and Review, 3, 87-90.
36. Stoltzfus, E. R., Hasher, J., Zacks, R. T., Ulivi, M. S., & Goldstein, D. (1993). Investigations of inhibition and interference in younger and older adults. Journal of Gerontology: Psychological Sciences, 48, P179-P188.
37. Sullivan, M. P., & Faust, M. E. (1993). Evidence for identity inhibition during selective attention in old adults. Psychology and Aging, 8, 589-598.
38. Sullivan, M. P., Faust, M. E., & Balota, D. A. (1995). Identity negative priming in old adults and individuals with dementia of the Alzheimer type. Neuropsychology, 9, 537-555.
39. Tipper, S. P. (1985). The negative priming effect: Inhibitory priming by ignored objects. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 37A, 571-590.
40. Tipper, S. P. (1991). Less artentional selectivity as a result of declining inhibition in older adults. Psychonomic Society Bulletin, 29, 45-47.
41. Tipper, S. P., & Cranston, M. (1985). Selective attention and priming: Inhibitory and facilitatory effects of ignored primes. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 37A, 591-611.
42. Tipper, S. P., & Driver, J. (1988). Negative priming between pictures and words in a selective attention task: Evidence for semantic processing of ignored stimuli. Memory & Cognition, 16, 64-70.
43. Tipper, S. P., & Milliken, B. (1996). Distinguishing between inhibition and episodic retrieval based accounts of negative priming. In A. F. Kramer, M. Coles, & G. D. Logan (Eds.), Converging operations in the study of visual selective attention (pp. 337-364). Washington, DC: American Psychological Association.
44. Treisman, A., & DeSchepper, B. (1996). Object tokens, attention, and visual memory. In T. Inui & J. McClelland (Eds.), Attention and performance XVI: Information integration in perception and communication (pp. 15-46). Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.
45. Zacks, R. T., Radvansky, G., & Hasher, L. (1996). Studies of directed forgetting in older adults. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 22, 143-156.