Tight coupling between positive and reversed priming in the masked prime paradigm.

Boy, Frederic and Sumner, Petroc ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0536-0510 2010. Tight coupling between positive and reversed priming in the masked prime paradigm. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance 36 (4) , pp. 892-905. 10.1037/a0017173

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Abstract

When associations between certain visual stimuli and particular actions are learned, those stimuli become capable of automatically and unconsciously activating their associated action plans. Such sensorimotor priming is assumed to be fundamental for efficient responses, and can be reliably measured in masked prime studies even when the primes are not consciously perceived. However, when the delay between prime and target is increased, reversed priming effects are often found instead (the negative compatibility effect, NCE). The main accounts of the NCE assume that it too is a sensorimotor phenomenon, predicting that it should occur only when the initial positive priming phase also occurs. Alternatively, reversed priming may reflect a perceptual process entirely independent from positive motor priming (which is simply evident at a different temporal delay), in which case no dependency is expected between the NCE and positive priming. We tested these predictions while new sensorimotor associations were learned, and found a remarkable symmetry between positive and reversed priming during all such learning phases, supporting the idea that reversed priming is a sensorimotor process that automatically follows the positive priming phase.

Item Type:	Article
Status:	Published
Schools:	Psychology
Subjects:	B Philosophy. Psychology. Religion > BF Psychology
Uncontrolled Keywords:	action; motor inhibition; negative compatibility effect; perception; subliminal priming
Publisher:	American Psychological Association
ISSN:	0096-1523
Last Modified:	20 Oct 2022 09:15
URI:	https://orca.cardiff.ac.uk/id/eprint/31174

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