Dos and don'ts in response priming research

• Authors: Filipp Schmidt , Anke Haberkamp , Thomas Schmidt

Abstracts

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Response priming is a well-understood but sparsely employed paradigm in cognitive science. The method is powerful and well-suited for exploring early visuomotor processing in a wide range of tasks and research fields. Moreover, response priming can be dissociated from visual awareness, possibly because it is based on the first sweep of feedforward processing of primes and targets. This makes it a theoretically interesting device for separating conscious and unconscious vision. We discuss the major opportunities of the paradigm and give specific recommendations (e.g., tracing the time-course of priming in parametric experiments). Also, we point out typical confounds, design flaws, and data processing artifacts.

Keywords

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response priming; unconscious percep

• Publisher: Wyższa Szkoła Finansów i Zarządzania w Warszawie
• Journal: Advances in Cognitive Psychology
• Year: 2011
• Volume: 7
• Pages: 120-131

Contributors

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Filipp Schmidt

• Faculty of Social Sciences, Psychology I, University of Kaiserslautern, Germany

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Anke Haberkamp

• Faculty of Social Sciences, Psychology I, University of Kaiserslautern, Germany

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Thomas Schmidt

• Faculty of Social Sciences, Psychology I, University of Kaiserslautern, Germany

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DOI

10.2478/v10053-008-0092-2