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Does the Concept of Negative Priming Contribute to Our Understanding of Selective Attention?
Summary: The essay talks about the possible connection between negative priming and selective attention. Inhibitory component of the selective attention as well as theories of Dr. Bruce Milliken and Broadbent's are analyzed. The discussion of the attenuation model of selective attention and Shaffer and LaBerge theories. The analysis of the current debate over the issue of negative priming in the light of Milliken and Joordens experiments.
It is often thought that humans can receive all the information that invades their senses, however, it is fact they are not able to process all of the received information. Humans must selectively choose what information to perceive and ignore irrelevant information. Two questions are raised, therefore: what allows us to selectively attend information and what happens to unattended information, is it proceeded to any extend or not proceeded at all? Recently, the phenomenon of negative-priming started to be used to study selective attention.
Negative priming is following. Two stimuli are presented to participants and they are asked to react only to one stimulus and ignore the other. The observed responses are slow if the item they have to respond to is the same as the item they have to ignore. The theory of negative priming holds that this slowdown is a result of the dual-process mechanism of...
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