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Can the location negative priming process operate in a proactive manner?

Eric Buckolz1, Sarah Guy, Michael Khan

  • 1Thames Hall, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Western Ontario, N6A 3K7 London, Ontario, Canada. ebuckolz@uwo.ca

Psychological Research
|February 8, 2005
PubMed
Summary

Negative priming (NP) occurs when processing is delayed for stimuli at recently occupied locations. This study found location NP is reactive, not proactive, inhibiting only actual distractors.

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Area of Science:

  • Cognitive Psychology
  • Neuroscience
  • Attention Research

Background:

  • Location negative priming (NP) delays target processing at previously occupied distractor sites.
  • The NP effect is hypothesized to involve persistent inhibition of internal representations.
  • The proactive nature of this inhibition process remains unclear.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To investigate whether location negative priming (NP) inhibition can be proactively allocated to predicted distractor locations.
  • To determine if inhibition occurs before an actual distractor appears.

Main Methods:

  • A location NP paradigm was adapted.
  • A cue indicated the probe distractor's location.
  • Participants completed trials with targets at cued, new, or prime-distractor locations.

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Main Results:

  • No proactive NP effect was observed.
  • Target latency was similar at cued and new locations.
  • A significant NP effect (delayed latency) occurred only at the prime-distractor location.

Conclusions:

  • Location negative priming (NP) appears to be a reactive process.
  • Inhibition is applied only in response to an actual distractor event.
  • Proactive allocation of inhibition to predicted locations was not supported.