Frings Christian, Eder Andreas B
Saarland University, Faculty of Behavioural Sciences, Department of Psychology, Saarbrücken, Germany.
Exp Psychol. 2009;56(5):301-6. doi: 10.1027/1618-3169.56.5.301.
Negative priming (NP) refers to the finding that reaction times and errors increase when a previously ignored prime distractor is presented as a target. In a variant of this task, the prime display is composed of only a single masked distractor that is followed by the simultaneous presentation of a target and a distractor in the probe display. In one experiment, we explore the time-course of masked NP using different variations of the prime-probe interval (short, medium, and long), and compare the results with time-course investigations of unmasked NP. We found clear evidence for a rapid-decay function of masked NP: With an increase in the prime-probe interval, masked NP decreased. This result is in line with the predictions of the temporal discrimination account and retrieval accounts of NP.
负启动（NP）指的是这样一个发现：当一个先前被忽视的启动干扰项作为目标呈现时，反应时间和错误会增加。在这个任务的一个变体中，启动显示仅由一个被掩蔽的干扰项组成，随后在探测显示中同时呈现一个目标和一个干扰项。在一项实验中，我们使用启动 - 探测间隔的不同变体（短、中、长）来探究掩蔽负启动的时间进程，并将结果与未掩蔽负启动的时间进程研究进行比较。我们发现了掩蔽负启动快速衰减函数的明确证据：随着启动 - 探测间隔的增加，掩蔽负启动减少。这一结果与负启动的时间辨别理论和提取理论的预测一致。
