title: Immediate priming and cognitive aftereffects.
abstract: Three forced-choice perceptual word identification experiments tested the claim that transitions from positive to negative priming as a function of increasing prime duration are due to cognitive aftereffects. These aftereffects are similar in nature to perceptual aftereffects that produce a negative image due to overexposure and habituation to a stimulus. Each experiment tested critical predictions that come from including habituation in a dynamic neural network with multiple levels of processing. The success of this account in explaining the dynamics of repetition priming, associative-semantic priming, and forward masking effects suggests that habituation is a useful mechanism for reducing source confusion between successively presented stimuli. Implications are considered for visible persistence, repetition blindness, attention-based negative priming, attentional blink, inhibition of return, the negative compatibility effect, affect priming, and flanker preview effects.
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychology, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, CA 92093-0109, USA. dhuber@psy.ucsd.edu
authors.forename: David E
authors.initials: DE
authors.lastname: Huber
mesh_terms: D001288:Attention; D003071:Cognition; D003463:Cues; D006185:Habituation, Psychophysiologic; D006801:Humans; D007266:Inhibition, Psychological; D010153:Paired-Associate Learning; D010470:Perceptual Masking; D011930:Reaction Time; D011932:Reading; D012660:Semantics