Negative priming under rapid serial visual presentation.
Negative priming (NP) was examined under a new paradigm wherein a target and distractors were temporally separated using rapid serial visual presentation (RSVP). The results from the two experiments revealed that (a) NP was robust under RSVP, such that the responses to a target were slower when the target served as a distractor in a previous trial than when it did not; (b) NP was found regardless of whether the distractors appeared before or after the targets; and (c) NP was stronger when the distractor was more distinctive. These findings are generally similar to those on NP in the spatial search task. The implications for the processes causing NP under RSVP are discussed in the current paper.
Department of Management, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong SAR, China. mnewong@ust.hk
Kin Fai Ellick
KF
Wong
D001288:Attention / Q000502:physiology*; D006801:Humans; D007266:Inhibition, Psychological; D010775:Photic Stimulation / Q000379:methods*; D011930:Reaction Time / Q000502:physiology; D013997:Time Factors; D055815:Young Adult