Leboe Jason P, Mondor Todd A, Leboe Launa C
Department of Psychology, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, MB, R3T 2N2 Canada.
Percept Psychophys. 2006 Aug;68(6):897-910. doi: 10.3758/bf03193353.
A handful of studies have revealed that withholding a response to a sound causes impaired responding to that sound when subsequently presented (Buchner & Steffens, 2001; Mondor, Leboe, & Leboe, 2005). In the present study, we investigated whether a switch in the location of a repeated sound might represent an additional source of this auditory negative priming effect. In all three of our experiments, participants performed a series of trials in which they withheld a response to a dichotic pair of prime sounds presented to each ear. A dichotic pair of probe sounds was then presented to each ear, and the participants were required to categorize one of them. Across these experiments, the participants were slower to categorize only repeated sounds that were presented in opposite locations.
