Sumner, Petroc  ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0536-0510 and Brandwood, T.
2008.
Oscillations in Motor Priming: Positive Rebound Follows the Inhibitory Phase in the Masked Prime Paradigm.
Journal of Motor Behavior
40
(6)
, pp. 484-490.
10.3200/JMBR.40.6.484-490
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Abstract
Masked stimuli can cause partial motor activation and prime responses to subsequent stimuli. Under certain conditions, a biphasic pattern appears, such that positive priming precedes a negative phase, which has been interpreted as evidence of an inhibitory mechanism that suppresses the motor activity caused by the prime. In this article, the authors report evidence for a further reversal in priming: In two experiments, the authors found that the negative compatibility effect was followed by a small but repeatable positive priming effect at an interval of approximately 500 ms between prime and target. Thus, masked primes appear to produce a triphasic pattern of priming, which is consistent with the notion that oscillation between facilitation and inhibition may be a fundamental property of the competitive interactions between response alternatives in the motor system.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Date Type: | Publication |
| Status: | Published |
| Schools: | Schools > Psychology |
| Uncontrolled Keywords: | automatic, inhibition, NCE, reversed priming, subliminal priming |
| Publisher: | Taylor & Francis |
| ISSN: | 1940-1027 |
| Last Modified: | 17 Oct 2022 09:48 |
| URI: | https://orca.cardiff.ac.uk/id/eprint/5647 |
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