Stimulus-response bindings in priming.
People can rapidly form arbitrary associations between stimuli and the responses they make in the presence of those stimuli. Such stimulus-response (S-R) bindings, when retrieved, affect the way that people respond to the same, or related, stimuli. Only recently, however, has the flexibility and ubiquity of these S-R bindings been appreciated, particularly in the context of priming paradigms. This is important for the many cognitive theories that appeal to evidence from priming. It is also important for the control of action generally. An S-R binding is more than a gradually learned association between a specific stimulus and a specific response; instead, it captures the full, context-dependent behavioral potential of a stimulus.
MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Cambridge, UK. Electronic address: rik.henson@mrc-cbu.cam.ac.uk.
Richard N
RN
Henson
Institut für Psychologie, Universität Bern, Bern, Switzerland; Center for Cognition, Learning, and Memory, Universität Bern, Bern, Switzerland.
Doris
D
Eckstein
Institut Neurosciences Cognition, Université Paris Descartes, Paris, France; CNRS Laboratoire Psychologie de la Perception UMR 8242, Université Paris Descartes, Paris, France.
Florian
F
Waszak
Allgemeine Psychologie und Methodenlehre, Universtät Trier, Trier, Germany.
Christian
C
Frings
Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience, University College London, London, UK; Institute of Neurology, University College London, London, UK.
Aidan J
AJ
Horner
D000818:Animals; D001245:Association Learning / Q000502:physiology; D001288:Attention / Q000502:physiology; D001364:Awareness / Q000502:physiology; D001921:Brain / Q000502:physiology; D006801:Humans; D008568:Memory / Q000502:physiology; D008960:Models, Psychological; D060865:Repetition Priming / Q000502:physiology
S–R bindings; automaticity; masked priming; negative priming; repetition suppression; subliminal priming