[The negative priming effect as an inhibitory phenomenon].
This study examined two hypotheses on the negative priming effect. Hypothesis 1: If a negative priming effect is due to response inhibition toward a distractor stimulus, it should occur in a condition where the response to a distractor stimulus is directly inhibited. Hypothesis 2: If response inhibition toward a distractor stimulus by itself is strong enough to produce a negative priming effect, it should occur even in earlier trials. Results showed that the negative priming effect did occur when the response to a distractor stimulus was directly inhibited thus confirming Hypothesis 1. As for Hypothesis 2, the negative priming effect did not occur with a few number of trials, suggesting that response inhibition toward a distractor stimulus becomes strong over the course of trials.
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Department of Educational Psychology, Faculty of Education, Kyushu University, Fukuoka.
D000328:Adult; D001288:Attention; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007266:Inhibition, Psychological; D008297:Male; D010775:Photic Stimulation; D011930:Reaction Time