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Responses to an object may be slower or less accurate if that object shares attributes with a recently ignored object(negative priming). Some studies have found negative priming only if the probe trial required selection against a distractor stimulus. In the present experiment, subjects responded to the location of a target (O), ignoring a distractor (X) if it appeared in another location. Reaction time was slower to probe targets that appeared in the same location as the prime distractor, regardless of whether or not the probe target was accompanied by a distractor.
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This experiment was first presented in November 1992, at the annual meeting of the Psychonomic Society in St. Louis. We are grateful to Teresa Tokarska for assistance with data collection and to Jim Neely for helpful comments on the manuscript.
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Neill, W.T., Terry, K.M. & Valdes, L.A. Negative priming without probe selection. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review 1, 119–121 (1994). https://doi.org/10.3758/BF03200767
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