Negative Priming 1985 to 2015: A Measure of Inhibition, the Emergence of Alternative Accounts, and the Multiple Process Challenge

D'Angelo, Maria C.; Thomson, David R.; Tipper, Steven P.; Milliken, Bruce

doi:10.1080/17470218.2016.1173077

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“…The design of Experiment 2 was identical to that of Experiment 1. To detect a medium difference in the size of the negative priming effect between context repeated and context changed trials (i.e., f = 0.25 as defined by Cohen, 1988), given desired levels of α = β = .05 and an assumed correlation of ρ = .4 between the negative priming effects in both context conditions, data had to be collected from a sample of 65 participants (Faul et al, 2007). The final sample comprised 61 participants, so that the power was slightly smaller (.94) than what we had planned for.…”

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Contextual modulation of prime response retrieval processes: Evidence from auditory negative priming

Mayr

Möller

Buchner

2018

Atten Percept Psychophys

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Contextual similarity between learning and test phase has been shown to be beneficial for memory retrieval. Negative priming is known to be caused by multiple processes; one of which is episodic retrieval. Therefore, the contextual similarity of prime and probe presentations should influence the size of the negative priming effect. This has been shown for the visual modality. In Experiment 1, an auditory four-alternative forced choice reaction time task was used to test the influence of prime-probe contextual similarity on negative priming and the processes underlying the modulation by context. The negative priming effect was larger when the auditory context was repeated than when it was changed from prime to probe. The modulation by context was exclusively caused by an increase in prime response retrieval errors in ignored repetition trials with context repetition, whereas repeating only the context but not the prime distractor did not lead to an increase in prime response retrieval. This exact pattern of results was replicated in Experiment 2. The findings suggest that contextual information is integrated with prime distractor and response information. Retrieval of the previous episode, including prime distractor, prime response, and context (event file), can be triggered when the former prime distractor is repeated, whereas a context cue alone does not retrieve the event file. This suggests an event file structure that is more complicated than its usually assumed binary structure.

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Contextual modulation of prime response retrieval processes: Evidence from auditory negative priming

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Buchner

2018

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“…Another way of altering the basic Bwhere^paradigm is to include a second nontarget stimulus (Bdistractor^) in each display, such that identity information must be extracted from the stimuli prior to the target response. Paradigmatically speaking, this is the major difference between a typical inhibition of return paradigm and a typical spatial negative priming paradigm (D'Angelo, Thomson, Tipper, & Milliken, 2016; for recent discussion, see Christie & Klein, 2008;Frings, Schneider, & Fox, 2015, for reviews). Researchers between paradigms often debate whether spatial negative priming occurs when a stimulus appears at a prior target location (i.e., inhibition of return; Hilchey, Klein, & Satel, 2014;Posner, Rafal, Choate, & Vaughan, 1985) or whether this only occurs when a target appears at a prior distractor location, for which the phrase spatial negative priming is typically reserved.…”

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Testing the role of response repetition in spatial priming in visual search

Hilchey

Leber

Pratt

2018

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In common "attention" tasks, which require stimulus-identity processing prior to the formation of a speeded key-press response, spatial priming effects depend on response repetition. Typically, the repetition of a stimulus location is advantageous when the prior response repeats, but disadvantageous or inconsequential when the prior response changes. This link between responding and space makes it difficult to draw inferences about attentional bias from two-choice key-press tasks. Instead, the findings are accounted for by episodic retrieval theories, which argue that the response associated with a prior stimulus location is retrieved when a later stimulus occupies its space. This retrieval operation is advantageous if the prior response is needed but not otherwise, which explains typical patterns. This perspective motivated us to evaluate whether spatial priming effects in the visual-search literature depend critically on response repetition. To assess this, we reevaluated a series of experiments recently published by Tower-Richardi, Leber, and Golomb (Attention, Perception, & Psychophysics, 78(1), 114-132, 2016). Their goal was to determine the reference frame of spatial priming across visual search displays. Reassessment reveals that spatial priming was strongly dependent on response repetition when spatiotopic, retinotopic, and object-centered reference frames were perfectly confounded. However, when eye movements were made to dissociate the spatiotopic and object-centered reference frame from the retinotopic reference frame, spatial priming was positive and unaffected by response repetition. The findings demonstrate that at least two distinct processes factor into spatial priming across visual searches, which occur at different levels of representation.

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“…The behavioral data collected in this study did not reveal a significant difference in performance between switches in the LI condition and the TS condition. This connects to a larger body of literature having difficulties to provide convincing evidence for persisting distracter inhibition when focusing on discrete data alone (D'Angelo et al, 2016;Frings et al, 2015).…”

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“…What is more controversial is whether a similar source of interference results from inert inhibitory processes that hamper the re-allocation of attention (see e.g. D'Angelo et al, 2016;Frings et al, 2015;MacLeod et al, 2003). In the paradigm used here, this should be primarily reflected in differences between LI switches and TS switches: Whereas the former affords participants to shift the focus of attention to a different color that had to be ignored beforehand, the latter requires a shift in attention to a different color that had not been part of the previous stimulus display.…”

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Frontal Midline Theta Reveals Temporal Dynamics of Target Amplification and Distracter Inhibition During Mental Set-Shifting

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Surrey²,

Dshemuchadse³

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When humans shift between tasks, they initially show slower responses in the new task than in the previous one. Persisting attentional settings are increasingly recognized as a source for these shifting costs. However, the extent to which specific mechanisms underlying information selection and interference control contribute to this phenomenon remains less clear. Here, we use time-frequency analyses of human electroencephalogram (EEG) data to explore the aftereffects of two such mechanisms: target amplification and distracter inhibition. Participants completed a set-shifting task in which interference during switch trials could either result from the persisting amplification of previous target colors or the persisting inhibition of previous distracter colors. In a first set of analyses, we focused on frontal midline theta (FMT) as a time-continuous marker of overall interference. Compared to a control condition, we found transient peaks of FMT in both experimental conditions that matched the effects of persisting target amplification and distracter inhibition predicted by a computational model of the task. In a second set of analyses we used steady-state visually evoked potentials (SSVEPs) as a direct measure of the attentional resources allocated to target and distracter colors. However, SSVEP amplitudes did not differ reliably between stimulation frequencies during switch trials, preventing us from drawing further conclusions on the origins of the interference processes reflected in FMT dynamics. Implications for theories of selective attention and potential limitations of frequency tagging in the context of mental set-shifting research are discussed.

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Negative Priming 1985 to 2015: A Measure of Inhibition, the Emergence of Alternative Accounts, and the Multiple Process Challenge

Cited by 41 publications

References 104 publications

Contextual modulation of prime response retrieval processes: Evidence from auditory negative priming

Contextual modulation of prime response retrieval processes: Evidence from auditory negative priming

Testing the role of response repetition in spatial priming in visual search

Frontal Midline Theta Reveals Temporal Dynamics of Target Amplification and Distracter Inhibition During Mental Set-Shifting

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