In the classic Stroop effect, naming the color of an incompatible color word (eg the word
RED printed in green ink; say,'green') is much slower and more error-prone than is naming …

Negative Priming (NP) is an influential paradigm in cognitive psychology that was originally
developed to measure attentional selection. Yet, up to the mid-1990s, a large number of …

What does inhibition in psychology mean? Most psychologists have presupposed that its
meaning in psychology is practically the same as in physiology. They begin with illustrations …

'The book is well-organized and comprehensive in covering the essential material. The
inclusion of human factors material is a strength that is not covered in other books.... The …

Priming effects of ignored distractor words were investigated in a task-switching situation
that allowed an orthogonal variation of priming and response compatibility between prime …

Even an irrelevant distractor stimulus is integrated into event files. Subsequently repeating
the distractor triggers retrieval of the event file; however, an unresolved issue concerns the …

Despite considerable interest in both action perception and social attention over the last 2
decades, there has been surprisingly little investigation concerning how the manual actions …

In two priming experiments, we manipulated the perceptual quality of the target or the
distractor on the prime trial; the stimuli were repeated or novel. Negative priming was found …

The appearance of an object or event sometimes facilitates responding to a subsequent
similar stimulus, an effect often called priming. However, under some circumstances …

Disturbances in selective attention represent a core characteristic of schizophrenia, whose
neural underpinnings have yet to be fully elucidated. Consequently, we recorded brain …