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Children with specific language impairment (SLI) struggle with proactive interference, showing less efficient inhibition control. This impacts their information processing and learning compared to peers.

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Background:

Specific language impairment (SLI) is increasingly linked to deficits in inhibition control.
Research isolating specific cognitive abilities in SLI remains limited.

Purpose of the Study:

To investigate differences in resistance to proactive interference in children with SLI compared to peers.
To examine how interference conditions affect information processing in children with SLI.

Main Methods:

Administered an information processing battery with interference manipulations to 66 children (SLI, age-matched, and language-matched controls).
Experiment 1: Used previously relevant targets as distractors to induce conflict.
Experiment 2: Employed item repetitions to assess the impact of response strength on subsequent performance.

Main Results:

Children with SLI exhibited similar performance to controls in baseline conditions.
SLI group showed greater susceptibility to proactive interference in experimental conditions.
Children with SLI demonstrated impaired suppression of irrelevant information and slower implicit learning.

Conclusions:

Children with SLI have weaker resistance to proactive interference, affecting their information processing.
The coordination of activation and inhibition processes appears less efficient in children with SLI.
Further research is warranted to explore the interaction between activation and inhibition in SLI.