Attending to the distractor and old/new discriminations in negative priming


Autoria(s): Healy, D. R.; Burt, J. S.
Contribuinte(s)

R. H. Logie

Data(s)

01/04/2003

Resumo

When participants ignore an irrelevant distractor they typically show impaired responding to that item if it becomes the relevant stimulus on a subsequent trial. In Experiment 1 (N = 64), a masked white colour name was presented briefly before a Stroop display. Negative priming in colour naming occurred when the colour of the lettering for the Stroop stimulus matched the colour name displayed in the first display, consistent with the proposal of temporal discrimination theory that negative priming arises because a recurrence of an unattended stimulus cannot readily be classified as old or new. Experiment 2 (N = 32) replicated negative priming in the interleaved-word display where participants had to name the red word from a pair of red and green words. In Experiment 3 (N = 32) and Experiment 4 (N = 28) the participants were required to attend to but not respond to the words in the prime display and name one of two interleaved words in the probe display. Negative priming was observed in this arrangement, consistent with the episodic retrieval theory of negative priming. The temporal discrimination model may need to be extended to situations in which the attended stimuli have different responses attached to them.

Identificador

http://espace.library.uq.edu.au/view/UQ:66539

Idioma(s)

eng

Publicador

Psychology Press

Palavras-Chave #Psychology #Psychology, Experimental #Selective attention #Lexical decision #Inhibition #Schizophrenia #Persistence #Task #C1 #380102 Learning, Memory, Cognition and Language #780108 Behavioural and cognitive sciences #1701 Psychology
Tipo

Journal Article