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Attending, ignoring, and repetition: on the relation between negative priming and inhibition of return
B Milliken1, S P Tipper, G Houghton
1Department of Psychology, McMaster University, Hamilton, ON, Canada. millike@mcmaster.ca
Abstract:
A series of spatial localization experiments is reported that addresses the relation between negative priming and inhibition of return. The results of Experiment 1 demonstrate that slowed responses to repeated location stimuli can be obscured by repetition priming effects involving stimulus dimensions other than spatial location. The results of Experiments 2, 3A, and 3B demonstrate that these repetition priming effects may occur only when participants are required to respond to the prime display. Together, these results suggest that differences between attended and ignored repetition effects in selective attention studies of spatial localization do not provide a basis for distinguishing between spatial negative priming and inhibition of return.
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