Mayes, Andrew R; Pickering, Alan and Fairbairn, Andrew. 1987. Amnesic sensitivity to proactive interference: Its relationship to priming and the causes of amnesia. Neuropsychologia, 25(1), pp. 211-220. ISSN 0028-3932 [Article]

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A group of alcoholic amnesics was compared with a group of controls on an A-B, A-C word pairs interference paradigm. With memory instructions the amnesics needed 5 presentation trials to their controls' single trials to match the groups on A-B cued recall. Under these conditions they still showed more proactive interference on the A-C list. When both groups were given five presentation trials for each list and ‘free association’ instructions, then they both showed this level of interference. This suggested that the amnesic interference effect only occurs because priming is not modulated by conscious memory, i.e. it is an effect of poor conscious memory. This interpretation was further supported by the finding that amnesics forgot the A-B list faster over 2 hr than their controls, when memory instructions were given.

Item Type:	Article
Identification Number (DOI):	https://doi.org/10.1016/0028-3932(87)90132-1
Departments, Centres and Research Units:	Psychology
Dates:	Date Event 1987 Published
Item ID:	8458
Date Deposited:	17 Mar 2015 11:46
Last Modified:	04 Jul 2017 10:31
Peer Reviewed:	Yes, this version has been peer-reviewed.
URI:	https://research.gold.ac.uk/id/eprint/8458

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