Top-down contingencies of nonconscious priming revealed by dual-task interference

Autor(en)

Ulrich Ansorge

Abstrakt

According to the direct parameter specification (DPS) account, reaction time effects of invisible primes depend on top-down control settings directed to targets (Neumann & Klotz, 1994). If this hypothesis holds, effects of invisible primes should decrease in dual-task as compared with single-task conditions: Prior to the primes control settings for the alternative task should be activated, which renders a match between target-directed control settings and primes less likely. In Experiments 1-2 and 4-5, a second task interfered with the validity effect of invisible primes. Control conditions ruled out several alternative explanations. Interference was not due to higher spatial memory loads (Experiments 1 vs. 2), increased numbers of stimuli or responses (Experiments 3-5), or increased response latencies (Experiment 3). If predictable, alternative tasks did not interfere (Experiment 3). The results are in line with the DPS account and less so with some classical definitions of automatic processing (e.g., Posner & Snyder, 1975).

Organisation(en)

Institut für Psychologie der Kognition, Emotion und Methoden

Externe Organisation(en)

Universität Bielefeld

Journal

Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology Section A: Human Experimental Psychology

Band

57

Seiten

1123-1148

Anzahl der Seiten

26

ISSN

0272-4987

DOI

https://doi.org/10.1080/02724980343000792

Publikationsdatum

08-2004

Peer-reviewed

Ja

ÖFOS 2012

501001 Allgemeine Psychologie

ASJC Scopus Sachgebiete

Experimental and Cognitive Psychology, Allgemeine Psychologie

Link zum Portal

https://ucrisportal.univie.ac.at/de/publications/93846a04-59fc-450f-b85b-14ca177059a6