Age-related differences in the lexical priming effect can be predominantly attributed to differences in response bias.
Abstract
). Results revealed that once stimulus parameters were adjusted to eliminate age differences in performance when the prime was unrelated to the target, age-related differences in target identification in the related priming conditions were predominantly driven by age-related differences in response bias rather than in any residual age differences in perceptual sensitivity. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2026 APA, all rights reserved).
Fields of Study & Subjects
Face Recognition and Perception
Visual Attention and Saliency Detection
Visual perception and processing mechanisms
Publication details
- Journal / source
- Psychology and Aging
- Publisher
- American Psychological Association (APA)
- Volume
- 41
- Issue
- 4
- Pages
- 544–554
- Publication date
- 15 January 2026
- Language
- EN