| Literature DB >> 12243393 |
Nadia Gamboz1, Riccardo Russo, Elaine Fox.
Abstract
A recent meta-analysis (P. Verhaeghen & L. De Meersman, 1998a) revealed that older adults show a reliable but significantly reduced negative priming effect compared with young adults. The present study provides an updated quantitative review on the effect of aging on the magnitude of the negative priming effect in identity tasks. This analysis demonstrated that the negative priming effect was not significantly different between young and old adults. This result differs from P. Verhaeghen and L. De Meersman's study. The implications of this finding for inhibitory-based theories of cognitive aging are discussed.Mesh:
Year: 2002 PMID: 12243393 DOI: 10.1037//0882-7974.17.3.525
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Psychol Aging ISSN: 0882-7974