title: Prime retrieval of motor responses in negative priming: evidence from lateralized readiness potentials.
abstract: In two experiments using a sequential prime-probe design we analyzed whether distractors repeated as targets retrieve the former prime response, although the prime response had to be withheld until after probe responding. Following Gibbons and Stahl (2008), we applied the lateralized readiness potential (LRP) as a measure for the retrieval of compatible or incompatible motor activation from the prime. When targets retrieved episodes containing the same response hand, the LRP onset occurred earlier, whereas when targets retrieved episodes containing the other response hand, the LRP onset was delayed. This data pattern supports prime-response retrieval theories of negative priming (Mayr and Buchner, 2006; Rothermund, De Houwer, and Wentura, 2005). In addition, the results show that executing a prime response is not a precondition for stimulus-response bindings.
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychology, Saarland University, Saarbrücken, Germany. c.frings@mx.uni-saarland.de
authors.forename: Christian
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Frings
authors.forename: Christina
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Bermeitinger
authors.forename: Henning
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Gibbons
mesh_terms: D000704:Analysis of Variance; D003265:Contingent Negative Variation / Q000502:physiology*; D003463:Cues; D004569:Electroencephalography; D005071:Evoked Potentials / Q000502:physiology; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D009068:Movement / Q000502:physiology*; D010775:Photic Stimulation; D011597:Psychomotor Performance / Q000502:physiology; D011930:Reaction Time / Q000502:physiology; D055815:Young Adult