The negative priming effect as an inhibitory phenomenon.

The negative priming effect: inhibitory priming by ignored objects.

Identity Negative Priming: A Phenomenon of Perception, Recognition or Selection?

The present study addresses the problem whether negative priming (NP) is due to information processing in perception, recognition or selection. We argue that most NP studies confound priming and perceptual similarity of prime-probe episodes and implement a color-switch paradigm in order to resolve the issue. In a series of three identity negative priming experiments with verbal naming response,...

Priming Intelligent Behavior: An Elusive Phenomenon

Can behavior be unconsciously primed via the activation of attitudes, stereotypes, or other concepts? A number of studies have suggested that such priming effects can occur, and a prominent illustration is the claim that individuals' accuracy in answering general knowledge questions can be influenced by activating intelligence-related concepts such as professor or soccer hooligan. In 9 experime...

Inhibitory priming effect in auditory of the phonological mismatch length

Three experiments examined lexical competition effects using the phonological priming paradigm in a shadowing task. Experiment 1 replicated Hamburger and Slowiaczek’ s [1] finding of an initial overlap inhibition when primes and targets share three phonemes (/b iz/-/b ik/) but not when they share two phonemes (/b z/-/b ik/). This observation suggests that lexical competition depends on the numb...

Mask-induced priming and the negative compatibility effect.

Under certain conditions, masked primes have produced counter-intuitive negative compatibility effects (NCE), such that RT is increased, not decreased, when the target is similar to the prime. This NCE has been interpreted as an index of automatic motor inhibition, triggered to suppress the partial motor activation caused by the prime. An alternative explanation is that perceptual interactions ...