Response Priming With Motion Primes Combined With a Target Flanker Display

Typically, using motion primes in a response priming task results in positive compatibility effects (PCEs) with short stimulus onset asynchronies (SOAs) and negative compatibility effects (NCEs) with long SOAs. This pattern of a PCE-NCE switch is also known from masked priming. When combining masked static primes with a subsequent flanker target, Boy et al. found a flanker effect, a PCE as well as no interaction with the flanker effect in the short SOA and a flanker effect, an NCE and an interaction with the flanker effect in the long SOA. In the present study, we combined a response priming task using motion primes with subsequent static flanker targets. We observed pronounced flanker effects (1) independently of the compatibility between prime and target (with the smallest flanker effects after directionally neutral motion primes) and (2) independently of the SOA. Furthermore, there was a PCE in the short and no compatibility effect in the longer SOA. That is, partially different processes seem to be involved in masked response priming and response priming with motion primes.