Attentional Control and Asymmetric Associative Priming

作者：Hutchison Keith A^*; Heap Shelly J; Neely James H; Thomas Matthew A

来源：Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition , 2014, 40(3): 844-856.

DOI：10.1037/a0035781

• attentional control
• semantic priming
• asymmetric association

Participants completed a battery of 3 attentional control (AC) tasks (OSPAN, antisaccade, and Stroop, as in Hutchison, 2007) and performed a lexical decision task with symmetrically associated (e. g., sister-brother) and asymmetrically related primes and targets presented in both the forward (e. g., atom-bomb) and backward (e. g., fire-blaze) directions at either a 250-or 1,250-ms stimulus onset asynchrony (SOA). As predicted, high-AC individuals showed greater forward priming than low-AC individuals. There was also some evidence that low-AC individuals exhibited greater backward priming than high-AC individuals, and this difference was most pronounced in the later portions of the reaction time distribution. These results suggest that high-AC individuals are more likely to prospectively generate and maintain expected targets in working memory, whereas low-AC individuals are more likely to rely on a retrospective semantic matching or integration processes. These findings support the distinction between proactive and reactive forms of cognitive control embodied in Braver, Gray, and Burgess%26apos;s (2007) dual-mechanism model of cognitive control.

• 出版日期2014-5