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Ellis, Norman R.; Dulaney, Cynthia L. – American Journal on Mental Retardation, 1991
Forty young adults with mental retardation (MR) were compared to 40 young adults without mental retardation in tests examining postpractice interference effects in naming colors of Stroop words. The study concluded that practice developed automatized reading suppression responses which held greater cognitive inertia for longer periods among MR…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Drills (Practice), Learning Processes, Mental Retardation
