title: Increased susceptibility to proactive interference in adults with dyslexia?
abstract: Recent findings show that people with dyslexia have an impairment in serial-order memory. Based on these findings, the present study aimed to test the hypothesis that people with dyslexia have difficulties dealing with proactive interference (PI) in recognition memory. A group of 25 adults with dyslexia and a group of matched controls were subjected to a 2-back recognition task, which required participants to indicate whether an item (mis)matched the item that had been presented 2 trials before. PI was elicited using lure trials in which the item matched the item in the 3-back position instead of the targeted 2-back position. Our results demonstrate that the introduction of lure trials affected 2-back recognition performance more severely in the dyslexic group than in the control group, suggesting greater difficulty in resisting PI in dyslexia.
authors: a Department of Experimental Psychology , Ghent University , Ghent , Belgium.
authors: Louisa
authors: L
authors: Bogaerts
authors: Arnaud
authors: A
authors: Szmalec
authors: Wibke M
authors: WM
authors: Hachmann
authors: Mike P A
authors: MP
authors: Page
authors: Evy
authors: E
authors: Woumans
authors: Wouter
authors: W
authors: Duyck
mesh_terms: D016022:Case-Control Studies; D004410:Dyslexia / Q000523:psychology*; D006801:Humans; D008570:Memory, Short-Term; D011334:Proactive Inhibition; D021641:Recognition, Psychology; D055815:Young Adult
keywords: Dyslexia; Proactive interference; Recollection; Serial-order processing; Working memory