NEGATIVE PRIMING WITHOUT PROBE SELECTION

Responses to an object may be slower or less accurate if that object s hares attributes with a recently ignored object (negative priming). So me studies have found negative priming only if the probe trial require d selection against a distractor stimulus. In the present experiment, subjects responded to the location of a target (O), ignoring a distrac tor (X) if it appeared in another location. Reaction time was slower t o probe targets that appeared in the same location as the prime distra ctor, regardless of whether or not the probe target was accompanied by a distractor.