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Functional brain‐electrical correlates of negative priming in the flanker task: Evidence for episodic retrieval

Author(s) -

Gibbons Henning

Publication year - 2009

Publication title -

psychophysiology

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 1.661

H-Index - 156

eISSN - 1469-8986

pISSN - 0048-5772

DOI - 10.1111/j.1469-8986.2009.00819.x

Subject(s) - psychology , n400 , negative priming , priming (agriculture) , episodic memory , cued speech , event related potential , task (project management) , cognitive psychology , repetition priming , cognition , neuroscience , selective attention , lexical decision task , botany , germination , management , economics , biology

Negative priming (NP) refers to inefficient responding when previous distractors become targets. NP may reflect persisting inhibition of former distractors and/or retrieval of task‐inappropriate information from the primes. In an event‐related potential (ERP) study of the flanker task, NP was accompanied by reduced positivity in the P300 time range. The early portion of this effect was shared with a target‐repetition condition and hence may indicate retrieval processes cued by repeated stimuli. A subsequent N400‐like component was specific for NP and may reflect processing of the retrieved task‐inappropriate information. In addition, NP effects on the lateralized readiness potential (LRP) matched predictions of the episodic‐retrieval view. NP effects on P300, N400, and response‐locked LRP were stronger in participants with above‐median behavioral NP, confirming the significance of these ERP effects for NP. Overall, findings support episodic‐retrieval explanations of NP.

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