Auditory, visual, and cross-modal negative priming

Buchner, Zabal, Mayr · Psychonomic Bulletin & Review · 2003 · cognitive-psychology · 10.3758/bf03196552 · record buchner2003-auditory-visual-and-cross-modal-ne
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negative priming conflict distractor inhibition episodic retrieval presenting a stimulus in one modality automatically activates its features in the other modality, so an ignored sound can prime (and slow) a later picture distractor inhibition is applied only to distractors that interfere: nonconflict distractors need no inhibition, hence no later cost the probe target retrieves the earlier prime episode, which carries a 'no response was made' tag that conflicts with the current requirement to respond acoustic traces of ignored sounds persist in a long auditory store better than visual distractor traces persist in visual short-term memory, producing facilitation that offsets or reverses the negative-priming cost conflict pair nonconflict pair presentation condition trial type probe reaction time error percentage response category of the ignored prime probe stimulus pair spatial compatibility t-test ANOVA effect size (Cohen's dz) significance level (alpha) standard error standard errors of the means behavioural-experiment

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limitationsPrime conflict is unavoidably confounded with whether the prime and probe responses alternate or repeat, which makes the key finding ambiguous in principle.
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limitationsThe unexpected positive priming after nonconflict primes in the auditory-auditory condition can only be accounted for speculatively.
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limitationsThe positive priming found on nonconflict prime trials in the auditory-auditory condition was not predicted.
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controlsa MATCHED CONTROL TRIAL was built for every ignored-repetition trial by replacing the ignored prime with the stimulus that did not occur
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eliminates: that the effect is a property of the probe pair rather than of the ignored prime - the probe is identical across the pair, so only the prime differs · outcome (stated by the tagger, no quotation): held
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controlsthe response CATEGORY of the ignored prime was held constant across an ignored-repetition trial and its control
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conceptsnegative priming
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sensesA PRIME THAT HURTS BECAUSE IT WAS IGNORED, WHICH IS A RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN PRIME AND TARGET THAT NOTHING ELSE IN THIS CORPUS HAS. `a reaction to a stimulus can be slowed down or more likely to be in error if the stimulus has recently been ignored.` The manipulation is an INSTRUCTION TO DISREGARD, so what carries over is the act of suppression. And it is a cost, not a benefit - the second counterexample tonight to the standard `improvement` definition Minton2017 strikes out, after Huang2018's interference effect
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sensesAND IGNORING IS NOT ENOUGH - IT HAD TO HAVE BEEN COMPETING: `Negative priming was observed only after conflict, but not after nonconflict, primes.` The ignored item must have called for a DIFFERENT response from the attended one. So the phenomenon is not about suppression in general but about suppression under competition, and a design that ignores an irrelevant stimulus with no competing response should find nothing. Another `only when`, and the condition is a property of the RELATION between the two primes rather than of either one
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sensesTHE AUTHORS MARK EXACTLY HOW MUCH OF THEIR CONCLUSION RESTS ON SOMETHING THEY CANNOT TEST: `Although this unavoidable confound renders the interpretation of the present finding ambiguous in principle, we believe that the conflict/nonconflict nature of the primes, and not the prime-probe response alternation/repetition, determined the observed pattern.` Then: `Quotation withheld within...` Four markers in three sentences - unavoidable, ambiguous in principle, we believe, if this position is accepted - and everything downstream is explicitly conditional on the belief. The confound is structural: conflict primes necessarily change the response, so the two cannot be separated by any version of this design
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sensesAN UNEXPECTED RESULT ADMITTED AS UNEXPLAINED: `The positive priming on nonconflict prime trials in the auditory-auditory condition was unexpected. Quotation withheld` The effect ran the WRONG WAY in one cell - facilitation where the paper predicts none - and it gets a paragraph of candidate explanations, each marked as speculation, rather than a footnote. A record that stored only the headline `negative priming after conflict primes` would lose a cell that contradicts the framework
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sensesTHREE ACCOUNTS ARE TESTED AGAINST THE SAME PATTERN AND ONE OF THEM HAS TO BE PATCHED: distractor inhibition and episodic retrieval both accommodate the conflict result, but for the temporal discrimination account `Quotation withheld.` Two alternative extensions are then offered, both hypothetical. The paper reports which theory needs extra machinery to survive its data, which is a more useful thing to record than which theory it prefers
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alternativesmethod: behavioural-experiment
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alternativesphenomenon: negative priming within and across the auditory and visual modalities, and its dependence on response conflict
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claim_relationsreplicates → Driver and Baylis (1993)
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claim_relationsextends → Driver and Baylis (1993, Experiment 1)
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concept_edgesconflict —causes→ negative priming
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direction on the measure: increases · strength of the relation: 0.85 · note: THE 'only after' IS THE CLAIM AND IT IS IN THE QUOTE. Weight 0.85 rather than higher because of the confound the authors name themselves: conflict primes NECESSARILY change the response between prime and probe, so this edge and 'response alternation causes negative priming' are not separable by any version of this design. The paper says so - 'ambiguous in principle' - and the third sense carries it.
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content_tagseffect size (Cohen's dz)
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content_tagsstandard error
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content_tagsNegative priming appeared only when the attended and ignored members of the prime pair called for different responses; nonconflict primes produced none.
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content_tagsThe conflict-only pattern of negative priming held for visual stimuli, for auditory stimuli, and in both cross-modal directions (auditory-to-visual and visual-to-auditory).
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content_tagsAuditory-to-visual and visual-to-auditory negative priming were fairly symmetrical.
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content_tagsIn the auditory-auditory condition, nonconflict-prime trials produced positive priming (faster responses to the previously ignored sound) instead of the null effect seen in the other three presentation conditions.
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content_tagsWhether the probe pair itself was conflicting did not reliably change the size of negative priming.
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content_tagsIgnoring the conflict/nonconflict prime distinction would have shown negative priming in the visual-visual condition but wrongly suggested none in the auditory-auditory condition.
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content_tagsProbe responses were faster after visual than after auditory probes and slower after conflicting than after nonconflicting probes, while prime modality had no effect on probe speed.
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content_tagsDifferences between control and ignored-repetition trials must reflect stimulus identity, not the associated response category.
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content_tagsnegative priming
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content_tagsconflict pair
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content_tagsspatial compatibility
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content_tags284 — number of undergraduate participants tested, 198 of them female, aged 18-58
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content_tags768 — number of prime-probe trials each participant completed
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content_tags96 — number of prime/probe trials of each of the four trial types (NC/NC, NC/C, C/NC, C/C)
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content_tags669 vs. 897 msec — mean probe reaction time after visual probes versus after auditory probes
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content_tags819 vs. 747 msec — mean probe reaction time following conflict probes versus nonconflict probes
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content_tags252 msec — size of the negative priming effect in the auditory-auditory condition, the largest of the four presentation conditions (the PDF extraction renders the minus sign as a leading 2, i.e. -52 msec, followed by -27, -26 and -18 msec)
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content_tags2 msec — the overall auditory-auditory priming effect when conflict and nonconflict prime trials are pooled - negligible and in the positive direction, which is why pooling hides the effect
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content_tags725 vs. 966 msec — mean prime reaction time after visual primes versus after auditory primes
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