Dos and don’ts in response priming research

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.

• Publication year

  2011

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  Advances in Cognitive Psychology

• Publication date

  2011-12-22

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  Medicine, Computer Science, Psychology

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  DOI 10.2478/v10053-008-0092-2PMID 22253674PMCID 3259048
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