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Article: Negative priming without overt prime selection
- Article from:
- Canadian Journal of Experimental Psychology
- Article date:
- December 1, 1996
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CopyrightCopyright Canadian Psychological Association Dec 1996. Provided by ProQuest LLC. (Hide copyright information)
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Negative Priming Without Overt Prime Selection
BRUCE MILLIKEN, McMaster University STEVE JOORDENS, University of Toronto at Scarborough
Abstract The procedure typically used to demonstrate negative priming requires subjects to respond to one of two simultaneously presented stimuli a
cross two consecutive displays. Negative priming is defined by slower responses to targets in the second display that appeared as distractors in the first display, than to targets in the second display that did not appear in the first display. It is widely assumed that negative priming occurs as a result of the selection that occurs in the first display. In the present article, we show that negative priming ...