Problem
Article: Race et al. (2019) Repetition Priming in Amnesia: Distinguishing Associative Learning at Different Levels of Abstraction. Neuropsychologia, 122, 98-104.
Task
• In the article, the authors find that the prevalence of negative priming in controls, but not in patients, when tasks and responses changed across stimulus repetitions was an unexpected result in the research. Why does this undermine the authors' claims in the paper?
• Future research is required to ascertain if amnesic individuals exhibit decreases in both positive and negative priming and whether this shows that MTL-mediated learning during priming might either raise or reduce control demands. What might this future research study tell us?