Year: 2009
Type: dissertation
Abstract: This experiment explored the distinction between two implicit memory test paradigms: \nidentification versus production processes and conceptual versus perceptual processes. \nThese dimensions were crossed to produce four different types of implicit tests, \nconsistent with current literature, in which each test differentially consisted of two of the \nfour processes. The tests were then administered across two divergent subject \npopulations of young adults: ADHD and non-ADHD. Participants studied semantic \nproperties of words, performed a filler section to divert attention from the studied words, \nand then performed four memory tests to assess long term, implicit memory. There were \nno statistically significant differences in performance between subject populations for \nany of the tests. Participants with ADHD performed equally well compared to their non- \nADHD peers. These results are inconsistent with other research suggesting that children \nwith ADHD have reduced priming with conceptual-based tests.However, participants \nwith ADHD that had more severe symptoms exhibited reduced priming in conceptual \ntasks compared to other less symptomatic participants with ADHD, yet showed more \npriming in perceptual driven tasks.
Author: Stephanie R Murphy
Language: English
Subfield: Cognitive Neuroscience
Field: Neuroscience
Domain: Life Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W2284407232