Negatywne poprzedzanie jako narzędzie badania zaburzeń poznawczych

Marek Drogosz

Abstract

This article describes basic properties of an experimental method called negative priming and its applications to the research on cognitive inhibition processes in aging, depression and schizophrenia. The presented analysis of the literature suggests that cognitive inhibition deficits (at different levels of processing: both stimuli and response selection) reduce or erase negative priming effects. Neuropsychological research with Parkinson disease patients, brain imaging and magnetic resonance (fMRI) provides more detailed data on functioning of brain structures responsible for these phenomena. Potential advances of negative priming applications in the social cognition research, especially on a structure and functioning of stereotypes, are also discussed.