Citation

Neill WT, Valdes LA, Terry KM, Gorfein DS. J. Exp. Psychol. Learn. Mem. Cogn. 1992; 18(5): 993-1000.

Affiliation

Department of Psychology, Adelphi University, Long Island, New York 11530.

Copyright

(Copyright © 1992, American Psychological Association)

DOI

unavailable

PMID

1402720

Abstract

Responses to recently ignored stimuli may be slower or less accurate than to new stimuli. This negative priming effect decays over time when delay is randomized within subjects, but not when delay varies between subjects. In Experiment 1, response-stimulus intervals (RSI) of 500 and 4,000 ms were randomized within subjects in a target localization task. Negative priming of ignored locations diminished with longer delay. However, no significant decay was obtained when RSI and the preceding RSI were equal. Similar results were obtained when RSI and preceding RSI were deliberately confounded by blocking (Experiment 2). Negative priming appears to depend on temporal discriminability of the priming episode.

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