Dos and don’ts in response priming research

Schmidt, Haberkamp, Schmidt · Advances in Cognitive Psychology · 2011 · cognitive-psychology · 10.2478/v10053-008-0092-2 · record Schmidt2011-dos-and-don-ts-in-response-priming-research
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zero sensitivity criterion double dissociation prime visibility response priming visual awareness The prime activates the response mapped to it, and the longer the delay before the target arrives the longer the prime alone can drive that response, which is why priming grows with SOA Backward masking works by disrupting recurrent processing, which is what awareness depends on, while priming rides the earlier feedforward sweep and is therefore left intact Participants guess prime identity from perceived flicker, and because flicker itself grows with prime-target SOA, this strategy produces the SOA-dependent reversal of bias in prime identification priming effect priming function interstimulus interval feedforward sweep metacontrast masking type-A masking type-B masking prime identification task SOA prime energy review

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limitationsGuidance on three-stimulus (prime-mask-target) designs is limited by unresolved knowledge about motor activation in that situation.
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transfersthe argument against discarding subjects who fail an awareness check is made by analogy with a clinical trial: excluding those subjects is like removing from the analysis the patients the drug killed
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sensesevidence as a SHAPE rather than a LEVEL - the double dissociation replaces `awareness must be zero` with `awareness and priming must move in opposite directions across SOAs`. If a range of prime-mask SOAs shows visibility DECREASING while priming INCREASES, then the two cannot both be driven by one source of conscious information. The criterion needs a time-course, not a threshold - the sixth time this sitting that a time course is the load-bearing variable
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sensesA DESIGN FLAW THAT MANUFACTURES THE CORRELATION IT IS USED TO SHOW: `varying the prime's duration while leaving the prime-target ISI constant` confounds prime duration with SOA and `creates a spurious correlation between priming and prime visibility by two mechanisms` - a stronger prime gives stronger priming, and a longer SOA gives stronger priming. The fix is to leave the prime intact and control visibility by varying the MASK. A confound that produces apparent evidence for a link between priming and awareness out of the timing alone
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sensesthe paradigm's power located in PARAMETRIC VARIATION rather than in a single contrast: response priming effects are `numerically large ... and pretty stable across individuals`, so the recommendation is to trace them across a range of SOAs. `the paradigm unfolds its true power only in parametric experiments` - a methods paper telling its field that one comparison is not the way to use its own tool
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sensesTHE ZERO SENSITIVITY CRITERION, AND WHY IT IS UNMEETABLE - not `too strict`, but resting on an instrument that does not exist: it `requires an exhaustive measure of visual awareness which is guaranteed to never miss a change in visual awareness, however tiny`. A standard whose satisfaction cannot be established, which is a different failing from a standard that is hard to reach. Second record in a row retiring a criterion on this ground (see Kiefer2012)
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claim_relationsbuilds-on → existing theories of response priming: direct parameter specification (Neumann, 1990), the action trigger account (Kunde, Kiesel, & Hoffmann, 2003) and rapid-chase theory (Schmidt et al., 2006)
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differs in: WHETHER ONE CAN BE READ OFF THE OTHER - masked stimuli 'can influence…', so the motor effect does not track what was seen. That independence is what the paper calls the paradigm's useful feature rather than a nuisance · strength of the relation: 0.9 · note: Re-grounded off the zero-sensitivity passage, which never names 'response priming'. This sentence pair names both endpoints, is free of brackets, and states the separation as the paradigm's defining property. Weighted 0.9: the paper is a methods review reporting an established feature, not an experiment establishing it here.
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content_tagsResponse priming effects are among the numerically largest in reaction-time research, accounting for 25% or more of the total response time.
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content_tagsPriming effects grow the longer the interval between prime and target onset, because the prime has more time to drive the response before the target takes over motor control.
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content_tagsPriming effects can keep increasing while the prime becomes less visible.
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content_tagsIn any design that modifies visibility by varying the prime, the direct and indirect measures are always confounded.
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content_tagsComputing d' separately for consistent and inconsistent trials confounds sensitivity with response bias.
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content_tagsExcluding participants whose prime identification is above chance is a sampling fallacy, since dropping observations does not alter the population the sample came from.
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content_tagsPrime identification performance carries an SOA-dependent bias: participants lean toward the target's direction at short SOAs and away from it at long SOAs.
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content_tagsThe authors recommend varying prime-target SOA in at least three steps across the whole range of interest, roughly 0 to 100 ms, rather than testing a single SOA.
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content_tagsAbout 60 trials per condition per participant has proved a reasonable number for reliable data patterns with small standard errors.
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content_tagsThe authors strongly recommend matching direct and indirect tasks on the stimuli, the features judged, and how those features map onto motor responses.
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content_tagsPriming effects in error rates matter as much as those in response times and should be analysed just as carefully.
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content_tagsThe earliest phase of response activation is determined by prime information alone and is independent of all target information.
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content_tags25% — Share of overall response time that response priming effects can account for
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content_tags100 ms — SOA below which the prototypical, approximately linear priming function is obtained
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