Immediate priming and cognitive aftereffects.

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Three forced-choice perceptual word identification experiments tested the claim that transitions from positive to negative priming as a function of increasing prime duration are due to cognitive aftereffects. These aftereffects are similar in nature to perceptual aftereffects that produce a negative image due to overexposure and habituation to a stimulus. Each experiment tested critical predictions that come from including habituation in a dynamic neural network with multiple levels of processing. The success of this account in explaining the dynamics of repetition priming, associative-semantic priming, and forward masking effects suggests that habituation is a useful mechanism for reducing source confusion between successively presented stimuli. Implications are considered for visible persistence, repetition blindness, attention-based negative priming, attentional blink, inhibition of return, the negative compatibility effect, affect priming, and flanker preview effects.(c) 2008 APA, all rights reserved

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Author/s: Huber, David E (DE);

Affiliation: Department of Psychology, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, CA 92093-0109, USA. dhuber(-atsign-)psy.ucsd.edu

Grants: MH063993-04 (Agency:United States NIMH) ; MH63993-01 (Agency:United States NIMH)

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Publication Type: Journal Article; Research Support, N.I.H., Extramural; Research Support, U.S. Gov't, Non-P.H.S.

Journal: Journal of experimental psychology. General (J Exp Psychol Gen), published in United States. (Language: eng)

Reference: 2008-May; vol 137 (issue 2) : pp 324-47

Dates: Created 2008/05/13; Completed 2008/08/11;

PMID: 18473662, status: MEDLINE (last retrieval date: 11/6/2008)

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