Increased Perceptual and Conceptual Processing Difficulty Makes the Immeasurable Measurable: Negative Priming in the Absence of Probe Distractors

Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance

Volumn 37, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 72-84

  Frings, Christian ^a   Spence, Charles ^b  

^a SAARLAND UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Episodic retrieval; Inhibition; Negative priming; Probe conflict in negative priming; Selection difficulty

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; HUMAN; INHIBITION (PSYCHOLOGY); LEARNING; PHOTOSTIMULATION; REACTION TIME; RECOGNITION; STIMULATION; TOUCH; VIBRATION;

ADULT; ASSOCIATION LEARNING; ATTENTION; HUMANS; INHIBITION (PSYCHOLOGY); PHOTIC STIMULATION; PHYSICAL STIMULATION; REACTION TIME; RECOGNITION (PSYCHOLOGY); TOUCH; VIBRATION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 79951538942     PISSN: 00961523     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/a0020673     Document Type: Article

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