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SUBMITTER: Mizrak E
PROVIDER: S-EPMC5836275 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Mar
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Social cognitive and affective neuroscience 20180301 3
Proactive interference (PI) is the tendency for information learned earlier to interfere with more recently learned information. In the present study, we induced PI by presenting items from the same category over several trials. This results in a build-up of PI and reduces the discriminability of the items in each subsequent trial. We introduced emotional (e.g. disgust) and neutral (e.g. furniture) categories and examined how increasing levels of PI affected performance for both stimulus types. ...[more]