Semantic priming in young and older adults: evidence for age constancy in automatic and attentional processes.
Semantic priming in young and older adults: evidence for age constancy in automatic and attentional processes.
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年轻人和老年人的语义启动:自动和注意力过程中年龄恒定性的证据。
DOI:
10.1037//0096-1523.13.1.79
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1987
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Diaz,DL
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Burke,DM;White,H;Diaz,DL
Automatic and attentional components of semantic priming and the relation of each to episodic memory were evaluated in young and older adults. Category names served as prime words, and the relatedness of the prime to a subsequent lexical decision target was varied orthogonally with whether the target category was expected or unexpected. At a prime-target stimulus-onset asynchrony (SOA) of 410 ms, target words in the same category had faster lexical decision latencies than did different category targets. This effect was not significant at a 1,550-ms SOA and was attributed to automatic processes. Expected category targets had faster latencies than unexpected category targets at the 410-ms SOA, and the magnitude of the effect increased at the 1,550-ms SOA. This effect was attributed to attentional processes. These patterns of priming were obtained for both age groups, but in a surprise memory test older adults had poorer recall of primes and targets. We discuss the implications of these results for the hypothesis that older adults suffer deficits in selective attention and for the related hypothesis that attentional deficits impair semantic processing, which causes memory decrements in old age.(PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2016 APA, all rights reserved)