increased susceptibility to proactive interference in adults with dyslexia recent findings show that people with dyslexia have an impairment in serialorder memory based on these findings the present study aimed to test the hypothesis that people with dyslexia have difficulties dealing with proactive interference pi in recognition memory a group of 25 adults with dyslexia and a group of matched controls were subjected to a 2back recognition task which required participants to indicate whether an item mismatched the item that had been presented 2 trials before pi was elicited using lure trials in which the item matched the item in the 3back position instead of the targeted 2back position our results demonstrate that the introduction of lure trials affected 2back recognition performance more severely in the dyslexic group than in the control group suggesting greater difficulty in resisting pi in dyslexia