Ignoring a distractor on a prime trial generally impairs responses to that object on a
subsequent probe trial. This negative-priming (NP) effect supports the notion that distracting …

Theories of cognition frequently assume the existence of inhibitory mechanisms that
deactivate mental representations. Justifying this assumption is difficult because cognitive …

Younger and older adults were compared in 4 directed forgetting experiments. These varied
in the use of categorized versus unrelated word lists and in the use of item by item versus …

Negative priming (NP) effects from irrelevant distractors were assessed as a function of
perceptual load in the processing of prime targets. Participants searched for a target letter …

Two negative priming (NP) experiments investigated the effects of stress and load on
selective attention. In Experiment 1, in which stress was relatively low under all conditions …

This study investigated how avatar customization activated leadership styles which may
influence subsequent altruistic behavior. Participants (N= 222) engaged in a resource …

Ever since Broca documented the relation between damage to the left hemisphere and
aphasia, claims have been made regarding the intellectual inferiority of the right …

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Three experiments are reported that examined conceptual negative priming effects in
children 5 to 12 years of age. Experiment 1 used a negative priming variant of a flanker task …

We show that retrieval from semantic memory is vulnerable even to the mere presence of
speech. Irrelevant speech impairs semantic fluency—namely, lexical retrieval cued by a …