Negative priming for spatial locations: Identity mismatching, not distractor inhibition.
- 1 January 1994
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Psychological Association (APA) in Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance
- Vol. 20 (3) , 613-623
- https://doi.org/10.1037/0096-1523.20.3.613
Abstract
Negative priming (NP) is commonly thought to occur because distractor inhibition is necessary for target selection (the distractor inhibition hypothesis). Contrary to this account, the selection of a target in the preceding trial is shown to be neither necessary (Experiment 1) nor sufficient (Experiments 2 and 3) for NP in a target localization task modeled after S.P. Tipper, J.C. Brehaut, and J. Driver (1990). Experiments 4 and 5 provide further evidence against the distractor inhibition hypothesis and support an alternative mismatching account: NP in the spatial selection task apparently results from a change in the symbol bound to a given location (D. Kahneman, A. M. Treisman, & B. J. Gibbs, 1992), rather than a change in the status of that location from distractor to target (S. P. Tipper, J. C. Brehaut, & J. Driver, 1990).Keywords
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