Jove
Visualize
Contact Us
JoVE
x logofacebook logolinkedin logoyoutube logo
ABOUT JoVE
OverviewLeadershipBlogJoVE Help Center
AUTHORS
Publishing ProcessEditorial BoardScope & PoliciesPeer ReviewFAQSubmit
LIBRARIANS
TestimonialsSubscriptionsAccessResourcesLibrary Advisory BoardFAQ
RESEARCH
JoVE JournalMethods CollectionsJoVE Encyclopedia of ExperimentsArchive
EDUCATION
JoVE CoreJoVE BusinessJoVE Science EducationJoVE Lab ManualFaculty Resource CenterFaculty Site
Terms & Conditions of Use
Privacy Policy
Policies

Related Experiment Videos

Negative priming without overt prime selection

B Milliken1, S Joordens

  • 1Department of Psychology, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario. millike@mcmaster.ca

Canadian Journal of Experimental Psychology = Revue Canadienne De Psychologie Experimentale
|December 1, 1996
PubMed
Summary
This summary is machine-generated.

Related Concept Videos

You might also read

Related Articles

Articles linked to this work by shared authors, journal, and citation graph.

Sort by
Same author

Proactive control: Endogenous cueing effects in a two-target attentional blink task.

Consciousness and cognition·2024
Same author

Attentional influences on memory formation: A tale of a not-so-simple story.

Memory & cognition·2018
Same author

Gradual proportion congruent effects in the absence of sequential congruent effects.

Acta psychologica·2014
Same author

On the strategic modulation of the time course of facilitation and inhibition of return.

The Quarterly journal of experimental psychology. A, Human experimental psychology·2001
Same author

Recollection and familiarity through the looking glass: when old does not mirror new.

Journal of experimental psychology. Learning, memory, and cognition·2001
Same author

Attending, ignoring, and repetition: on the relation between negative priming and inhibition of return.

Perception & psychophysics·2000
Same journal

The costs and benefits of mind-wandering: 13 Years on.

Canadian journal of experimental psychology = Revue canadienne de psychologie experimentale·2026
Same journal

Can computational sentiment analysis classify autobiographical memories? Comparing VADER and TextBlob.

Canadian journal of experimental psychology = Revue canadienne de psychologie experimentale·2026
Same journal

Development of enumeration processes for kindergarten children: Evidence from eye-tracking data.

Canadian journal of experimental psychology = Revue canadienne de psychologie experimentale·2026
Same journal

Differential sensitivity to outcome valence reveals two classes of shift behaviour related to exploitation and exploration.

Canadian journal of experimental psychology = Revue canadienne de psychologie experimentale·2026
Same journal

Effects of valence and list composition on memory predictions, performance, and beliefs.

Canadian journal of experimental psychology = Revue canadienne de psychologie experimentale·2026
Same journal

Differential response to cognitive stimulation in moderate versus moderately severe Alzheimer's disease.

Canadian journal of experimental psychology = Revue canadienne de psychologie experimentale·2026
See all related articles

Negative priming, a cognitive phenomenon, can occur without requiring selective attention. This study challenges existing methods for measuring negative priming and offers a new procedure to evaluate theoretical accounts.

Area of Science:

  • Cognitive Psychology
  • Neuroscience
  • Perception

Background:

  • Negative priming is typically demonstrated using tasks requiring selective attention to one of two stimuli.
  • This selective process in the first display is widely assumed to underlie negative priming effects observed in the second display.
  • Existing methodologies may misinterpret the fundamental mechanisms of negative priming.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To investigate whether negative priming can be observed without the requirement of selective attention in the initial display.
  • To propose a revised procedure for measuring negative priming that addresses potential methodological misunderstandings.
  • To evaluate the utility of the new procedure in assessing theoretical accounts of negative priming, specifically the code co-ordination account.

Main Methods:

Related Experiment Videos

  • Participants performed a task involving two consecutive displays of stimuli.
  • The procedure was designed to elicit negative priming without explicit instructions for selective attention in the first display.
  • Two studies were conducted to assess the code co-ordination account using the novel procedure.

Main Results:

  • Negative priming effects were observed even when selective attention was not explicitly required in the first display.
  • The results indicate that the traditional procedure may not be essential for demonstrating negative priming.
  • The proposed methodology proved useful in evaluating the code co-ordination account.

Conclusions:

  • The findings challenge the assumption that selective attention is a prerequisite for negative priming.
  • A revised understanding of negative priming measurement procedures is warranted.
  • The novel procedure offers a valuable tool for advancing research and theoretical development in negative priming.