On finding negative priming from distractors |
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Authors: | John J Christie Raymond M Klein |
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Institution: | (1) Department of Psychology, National Taiwan University, No. 1, Sec. 4, Roosevelt Rd., Taipei, 106, Taiwan;(2) Department of Psychology, Chung Yuan Christian University, No. 200, Chung Pei Rd, Chung Li, 32023, Taiwan |
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Abstract: | Negative priming from distractors has attracted considerable interest because it appears to reveal a fundamental mechanism
of selective attention. Recently, the phenomenon has become muddled because it can be explained in far too many ways. This
may partly be because the empirical foundation for the phenomenon has been handicapped by an overreliance on a simplistic
comparison of a single experimental condition with control. A sounder approach requires that we collect data that can rule
out alternatives to the hypothesis we might favor or test. Regardless of the paradigm used, we propose collecting data from
a much fuller set of conditions than is typical. Despite the variety of underlying explanations, we show that the various
theories that attribute negative priming to ignoring the distractor predict a common pattern of results across the full set
of related conditions. Theories, such as inhibition of return, that do not attribute the cost in performance to ignoring the
distractor do not predict this pattern. |
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