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  • Title: Enhanced negative priming in Parkinson's disease.
    Author: Wylie SA, Stout JC.
    Journal: Neuropsychology; 2002 Apr; 16(2):242-50. PubMed ID: 11949716.
    Abstract:
    In the ignored repetition paradigm, negative priming (NP) is defined as the increase in response time that occurs when the current target stimulus served as a distractor stimulus in the previous trial. In this study, 25 Parkinson's disease (PD) participants and 17 age-matched healthy controls (HCs) were tested using a touchscreen version of the ignored repetition task that allowed response time to be partitioned into response initiation and response execution segments. In both groups, NP effects were stronger in the response execution than in the response initiation segments. The most striking result was that the PD group showed larger NP effects overall than the HC group. In PD, clinical ratings of bradykinesia, but not tremor, were related to larger NP effects. Results indicate that in PD, disruption of dopamine neuromodulation diminishes response efficiency when action must be directed toward previously ignored information.
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