Children Do Show Negative Priming: Further Evidence for Early Development of an Intact Selective Control Mechanism

Autor/inn/en	Frings, Christian; Feix, Silke; Rothig, Ulrike; Bruser, Charlotte; Junge, Miriam
Titel	Children Do Show Negative Priming: Further Evidence for Early Development of an Intact Selective Control Mechanism
Quelle	In: Developmental Psychology, 43 (2007) 5, S.1269-1273 (5 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0012-1649
Schlagwörter	Young Children; Attention Control; Cognitive Processes; Stimuli; Responses; Comparative Analysis; Developmental Psychology; Adults + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Frühe Kindheit; Aufmerksamkeitstest; Cognitive process; Kognitiver Prozess; Anreizsystem; Entwicklungspsychologie
Abstract	Reactions to stimuli that were shortly before presented as distractors are usually slowed down; this phenomenon is known as negative priming. Negative priming is an accepted index for tapping into selective control mechanisms. Although this effect is well established for adults, it has been claimed that children do not show negative priming. Recently, however, V. E. Pritchard and E. Neumann challenged this view and concluded that selective control mechanisms are already fully developed in young children. The authors of the present study analyzed differences between older studies, in which no negative priming had been observed, and the Pritchard and Neumann (2004) study. In sum, the present study yielded further evidence for an intact selective control mechanism in young children. The authors also linked this empirical finding to the broader literature on negative priming by a direct comparison with an adult sample. (Author).
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Update	2017/4/10