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Temporal Negative Priming: Visual and Auditory Alexa C Bates College SCARAB Honors Theses Capstone Projects 5-2019 Temporal Negative Priming: Visual and Auditory Alexa C. M. Harrison Bates College, [email protected] Follow this and additional works at: https://scarab.bates.edu/honorstheses Recommended Citation Harrison, Alexa C. M., "Temporal Negative Priming: Visual and Auditory" (2019). Honors Theses. 293. https://scarab.bates.edu/honorstheses/293 This Restricted: Embargoed [Open Access After Expiration] is brought to you for free and open access by the Capstone Projects at SCARAB. It has been accepted for inclusion in Honors Theses by an authorized administrator of SCARAB. For more information, please contact [email protected]. Running head: TEMPORAL NEGATIVE PRIMING Temporal Negative Priming: Visual and Auditory Empirical Research Honors Thesis Presented to The Faculty of the Department of Psychology Bates College In partial fulfillment of the Requirement for the degree of the Bachelor of Arts By Alexa C. M. Harrison Lewiston, Maine [March 20th, 2019] TEMPORAL NEGATIVE PRIMING 2 Acknowledgments I would like to begin by thanking my advisor, Todd Kahan, for supporting me throughout this process. As daunting as thesis sometimes can be, Professor Kahan was instrumental in keeping me on track with my work, being open to new ideas and areas of research, and entering into engaging conversations about the complex theories which have all contributed to the creation of my thesis. In addition to Todd Kahan, I would also like to thank Louisa Slowiaczek and Melody Altschuler for not only being kind enough as to allow me to continue their research but even offer words of encouragement along the way. I would also like to thank all the individuals who participated in this study. Without their contributions, this work never would have materialized. I would like to thank Pete Schlax from the Library Research Commons and the members of my thesis writing group for providing support and countless hours revising, providing feedback and offering help on formatting. Without their time, my thesis would look far different than it does today. I would also like to thank my family and friends for offering continual support throughout this year. Without my friends, I truly believe my last four years at Bates College would have looked immensely different. I am also eternally grateful for my family. Their unending support, kind words of motivation and belief in me were a constant reminder of my capabilities. Thesis is very much a group effort and my friends and family were incredibly influential in the completion of this thesis. Finally, I would like to thank Bates College for opening many doors for me along the way. Bates enabled me to pursue my interests and become involved in academics and the community in many unexpected ways that have been instrumental in shaping who I am. Bates has helped guide and support me through my academic journey, and I not only feel that I picked the ideal major, but that I was able to complete meaningful and thoughtful work throughout my last 4 years TEMPORAL NEGATIVE PRIMING 3 Table of Contents Abstract 5 Temporal Negative Priming: Visual and Auditory 6 Present Study 10 Experiment 1 11 Methods 11 Participants 11 Procedure 11 Conditions 13 Results 16 Confounded Temporal Position and Response Analysis. 18 Isolated Temporal Position Analysis 18 Isolated Response Data 21 Relationship Between Negative Priming and Individual Difference Variables 22 Discussion 23 Summary of Results 23 Next Area of Research 25 Experiment 2 28 Methods 29 Participants 29 Procedure 29 Conditions 30 Results 30 Isolated Temporal Analysis 30 Isolated Response Analysis 32 Discussion 33 Summary of Results 33 Next Area of Research 37 Experiment 3 41 Methods 41 Participants 41 Procedure 41 Results 42 Confounded Trials 42 Isolated Temporal Analysis 45 Isolated Response Analysis 46 Discussion 47 Summary of Results 47 General Discussion 52 Summary of results 52 Limitations of this study 55 TEMPORAL NEGATIVE PRIMING 4 Future Areas of Research 56 Concluding Remarks 58 References 60 Appendix 67 Experiment 1 Consent Form 67 Experiment 1 Debriefing Form 68 Experiment 2 Consent Form 69 Experiment 2 Debriefing Form 70 Experiment 3 Consent Form 71 Experiment 3 Debriefing Form 72 TEMPORAL NEGATIVE PRIMING 5 Abstract Recently Kahan, Slowiaczek, and Altschuler (2017) reported a new form of negative priming, termed temporal negative priming. The purpose of the current study was to first replicate this effect using a slightly altered methodology and then to examine possible mechanisms that contribute to temporal negative priming and the extent to which this effect might generalize across modalities. By requiring participants to attend to both the distractor and target stimuli, the first experiment found robust temporal negative priming effects. The second study explored whether temporal negative priming is in part caused by difficulty binding features of a target with a temporal position that was previously associated with features of a distractor (Park & Kanwisher, 1994). Results were inconclusive but are consistent with the possibility that feature mismatch theory may not be the causal mechanism behind this effect. In addition, the data support memory-based over inhibition-based theories, but additional research is needed to determine if this memory-based negative priming effect is sensitive to manipulations which affect memory retrieval. The final study found temporal negative priming within the auditory modality as well. Fifty-seven individuals participated in the first experiment, 49 individuals participated in the second experiment and 38 individuals participated in the final experiment. Similar to other negative priming studies, participants were shown prime-probe trial pairs. However, in all of the studies reported here, prime-probe trial pairs were shown at different timing sequences to help separate the effects of temporal location and response. TEMPORAL NEGATIVE PRIMING 6 Temporal Negative Priming: Visual and Auditory Individuals are constantly exposed to far more detail than they can process at one time and the ability to distinguish between relevant and irrelevant information requires a fair amount of cognitive control. In fact, in many circumstances learned and reflexive associations are incompatible with the behavior that is needed, and in these situations top-down cognitive control is engaged (Braver, 2012). Negative priming experiments require control of this sort and results may help to clarify the mechanisms involved in ignoring distraction. Negative priming is the finding that reaction times (RTs) to a stimulus are significantly slowed if that stimulus was previously ignored. This is a well-researched and robust effect found across several modalities such as vision (Tipper, 1985; May, Kane, & Hasher, 1995; Schrobsdorff, Ihrke, Behrendt, Herrmann, & Hasselhorn, 2012), audition (Mayr & Buchner, 2006; Mayr, Buchner, Moller, & Hauke, 2011) and even tactile senses (Frings, Mast, & Spence, 2014). Experimental trials for negative priming generally contain a prime-probe pairing. During the prime trial, participants are shown both a target and distractor stimulus and are required to respond to the target. In the probe trial participants are either shown a target and distractor or simply a target to which they are required to respond. Research has consistently indicated that when the target stimulus from the probe trial originally appeared as the distractor stimulus from the prime trial, participant responses are significantly slower and more prone to error compared to control trials (Dalrymple-Alford & Budayr, 1966; Tipper, 1985). Negative priming effects have traditionally been broken into two major categories: spatial and identity. Spatial negative priming indicates that when a probe target is placed in the same location on a display as the prime distractor, participants will have significantly slower RTs than if the probe stimulus appears in any other location (Tipper, Brehaut, & Driver, 1990; Neill & TEMPORAL NEGATIVE PRIMING 7 Kleinsmith, 2016). Conversely, identity-based negative priming occurs when a participant is asked to identify a target while ignoring the identity of a distractor (Tipper, 1985). In subsequent probe trials, research has shown that participants are significantly slower to identify a probe-trial target if that item’s identity had previously appeared as a distractor during the prime trial. Negative priming research might provide clues about the mechanisms involved in selective attention. This is particularly important considering certain groups with attentional deficits exhibit diminished negative priming and may have impaired cognitive control. For example, individuals with schizophrenia, Alzheimer’s disease, ADHD or depression show decreased levels of negative priming (Vaughan, Hughes, Jones, Woods, & Tipper, 2006; Ungar, Nestor, Niznikiewicz, Wible, & Kubicki, 2010; Macqueen, Galway, Goldberg, & Tipper, 2003; Ossmann & Mulligan, 2003; Frings, Wentura, & Holtz, 2007). In the case of individuals with Alzheimer’s disease, a significant decrease was found for identity negative priming but not for spatial negative priming, indicating that these two types of priming reflect different attentional mechanisms (Vaughan et al., 2006). Negative priming likewise diminishes for other groups such as frequent cannabis users (Albertella, Le Pelley, & Copeland, 2016). Albertella et al.’s (2016) study further indicated that this reduction in spatial negative priming is gender specific and only
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