title: Priming effects under correct change detection and change blindness.
abstract: In three experiments, we investigated the priming effects induced by an image change on a successive animate/inanimate decision task. We studied both perceptual (Experiments 1 and 2) and conceptual (Experiment 3) priming effects, under correct change detection and change blindness (CB). Under correct change detection, we found larger positive priming effects on congruent trials for probes representing animate entities than for probes representing artifactual objects. Under CB, we found performance impairment relative to a "no-change" baseline condition. This inhibition effect induced by CB was modulated by the semantic congruency between the changed item and the probe in the case of probe images, but not for probe words. We discuss our results in the context of the literature on the negative priming effect.
authors.affiliation: Dipartimento di Psicologia, Università degli Studi di Firenze, Via di San Salvi 12, Complesso di San Salvi, Padiglione 26, 50135 Firenze (FI), Italy. corrado.caudek@unifi.it
authors.forename: Corrado
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Caudek
authors.forename: Fulvio
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Domini
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D001288:Attention; D003657:Decision Making; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007266:Inhibition, Psychological; D008297:Male; D012044:Regression Analysis; D060865:Repetition Priming; D012660:Semantics; D014796:Visual Perception; D055815:Young Adult