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Negative Priming
Every moment of our waking lives our perceptual and cognitive processes are bombarded with information. Some of the information is relevant to performance and some is not. Attentional mechanisms have evolved to enhance relevant information and to filter out irrelevant information. Most of the research has examined the facilitation of attended information. Recently however, more and more of the research has focused on what happens to the unattended information. Much of this research has focused on the "negative priming effect." Three very different theoretical accounts of the negative priming effect have been proposed. The current experiments, in collaboration with Dr. Dawn McBride, are designed to try to distinguish between these different alternatives.
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