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Article: Revisiting the role of probe distractors in negative priming: Location negative priming is observed when probe distractors are consistently absent
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- Attention, Perception and Psychophysics
- Article date:
- July 1, 2009
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CopyrightCopyright Psychonomic Society, Inc. Jul 2009. Provided by ProQuest LLC. (Hide copyright information)
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Negative priming (NP) refers to the delayed response to a probe target that was previously a prime distractor. One peculiar problem in NP literature is the observation that the manifestation of identity NP is contingent on the presence and type of probe distractors. When the probe distractors wer
e completely removed, positive priming, rather than NP, was usually observed. This study investigated whether location NP was affected by the same manipulations. The proportion of ignored repetition trials, attended repetition trials, and control trials was manipulated across Experiments 1-3. These three experiments showed reliable location NP effect when the probe distractor was consistently ...