The effects of alerting signals in masked priming
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- Alerting signals often serve to reduce temporal uncertainty by predicting the time of stimulus onset. The resulting response time benefits have often been explained by facilitated translation of stimulus codes into response codes on the basis of established stimulus-response (S-R) links. In paradigms of masked S-R priming alerting signals also modulate response activation processes triggered by subliminally presented prime stimuli. In the present study we tested whether facilitation of visuo-motor translation processes due to alerting signalsAlerting signals often serve to reduce temporal uncertainty by predicting the time of stimulus onset. The resulting response time benefits have often been explained by facilitated translation of stimulus codes into response codes on the basis of established stimulus-response (S-R) links. In paradigms of masked S-R priming alerting signals also modulate response activation processes triggered by subliminally presented prime stimuli. In the present study we tested whether facilitation of visuo-motor translation processes due to alerting signals critically depends on established S-R links. Alerting signals resulted in significantly enhanced masked priming effects for masked prime stimuli that included and that did not include established S-R links fi.e., target vs. novel primes). Yet, the alerting-priming interaction was more pronounced for target than for novel primes. These results suggest that effects of alerting signals on masked priming are especially evident when S-R links between prime and target exist. At the same time, an alerting-priming interaction also for novel primes suggests that alerting signals also facilitate stimulus-response translation processes when masked prime stimuli provide action-trigger conditions in terms of programmed S-R links.…
Author: | Rico Fischer, Franziska Plessow, Andrea Kiesel |
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URN: | urn:nbn:de:bvb:20-opus-122581 |
Document Type: | Journal article |
Faculties: | Fakultät für Humanwissenschaften (Philos., Psycho., Erziehungs- u. Gesell.-Wissensch.) / Institut für Psychologie |
Language: | English |
Parent Title (English): | Frontiers in Psychology |
ISSN: | 1664-1078 |
Year of Completion: | 2013 |
Volume: | 4 |
Issue: | 448 |
Source: | Frontiers in Psychology 4:448. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2013.00448 |
DOI: | https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2013.00448 |
Dewey Decimal Classification: | 1 Philosophie und Psychologie / 15 Psychologie / 150 Psychologie |
Tag: | accessory; action-trigger; alerting signal; automaticity; masked priming; mechanism; novel primes; perception; performance; primes; response selection; simon task; stimuli; target primes; temporal predictability; visual cortex |
Release Date: | 2016/02/26 |
Licence (German): | CC BY: Creative-Commons-Lizenz: Namensnennung |