Suppression of irrelevant location information by individuals with and without mental retardation.
Negative priming in a location task was examined for individuals with and without mental retardation. In each prime display, a target stimulus was presented in one of four locations, with a distractor stimulus appearing in another location. The target in the probe appeared either in the same position as the target in the prime, the same position as the distractor, or a different position from both. In contrast to results obtained using identification tasks (Cha & Merrill, 1994), all subjects exhibited interference to locating the target in the negative priming condition. All individuals apparently actively suppressed response tendencies to the location of irrelevant information in the prime display.
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University of Alabama.
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D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D001288:Attention; D004495:Education of Persons with Intellectual Disabilities; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008607:Intellectual Disability / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000523:psychology*; D008297:Male; D009949:Orientation; D010364:Pattern Recognition, Visual; D011930:Reaction Time