Inhibitory effect of a second stimulus on reaction time to a primary stimulus: a partial successful replication.
A second visual stimulus, to which no response was required, following a primary one lengthened the reaction time to the first stimulus for 25 college students. Reaction time rose as a function of the increase in the interstimulus interval. Duration time of the second stimulus did not affect this response. These results were found under a condition of stimulus-response certainty.
D000161:Acoustic Stimulation; D000328:Adult; D001288:Attention; D001364:Awareness; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007266:Inhibition, Psychological; D008297:Male; D010775:Photic Stimulation; D011930:Reaction Time; D013997:Time Factors; D014796:Visual Perception