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Context-specific control in the single-prime negative-priming procedure.

Maria C D'Angelo¹, Bruce Milliken

¹Department of Psychology, Neuroscience & Behaviour, McMaster University, Hamilton, ON, Canada. dangelmc@mcmaster.ca

Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology (2006)

|January 10, 2012

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This study shows context-specific control is key to understanding negative priming. Learning effects within experiments highlight how context-sensitive memory shapes perception and action integration.

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Area of Science:

Cognitive Psychology
Memory Research

Background:

Negative priming effects are influenced by probe selection.
The context-specific control principle offers a framework for understanding these effects.

Purpose of the Study:

To examine the applicability of the context-specific control principle to negative priming.
To investigate the role of probe context and learning effects in negative priming.

Main Methods:

Utilized a single-prime procedure across a series of experiments.
Manipulated probe contexts and analyzed learning effects within experimental sessions.

Main Results:

Demonstrated the importance of context-specific control, challenging the contextual similarity principle.
Identified a novel learning effect within a single experimental session.
Showed that context-specific control learning is independent of contingency learning.

Conclusions:

Context-specific control is crucial for understanding negative priming.
Context-sensitive memory plays a significant role in integrating current experiences with past ones.