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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.
This research was supported by the Research Foundation Flanders (FWO, B/12187/01) and by the Flemish Agency for Disabled Persons (VAPH). We are grateful to Valerie Van Hees and Charlotte De Langhe (vzw Cursief) for recruiting dyslexic volunteers.
This research was supported by the Research Foundation Flanders (FWO, B/12187/01) and by the Flemish Agency for Disabled Persons (VAPH). We are grateful to Valerie Van Hees and Charlotte De Langhe (vzw Cursief) for recruiting dyslexic volunteers.
Notes
1 WM can be conceptualised as the activated part of long-term memory with a region of direct access where information is temporarily maintained in a directly accessible state (Oberauer, Citation2009).
2 While our accuracy results in the block without lures are in line with the study of Benventi et al. (Citation2010), we did not find a RT difference between groups on the 2-back task, whereas they did (see also Sela et al., Citation2012).