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The time-course of masked negative primingChristian Frings
Saarland University, Faculty of Behavioural Sciences, Department of Psychology, Saarbrucken, Germany
Exp Psychol 56:301-6. 2009..This result is in line with the predictions of the temporal discrimination account and retrieval accounts of NP...- Analysing the relationship between target-to-target and distractor-to-target repetitions: evidence for a common mechanismChristian Frings
Faculty of Behavioural Sciences, Department of Psychology, Saarland University, Saarbrucken, Germany
Q J Exp Psychol (Hove) 61:1641-9. 2008..This result is interpreted as evidence for a common retrieval mechanism... 
Center-surround or spreading inhibition: which mechanism caused the negative effect from repeated masked semantic primes?Christian Frings
Department of Psychology, Saarland University, Saarbrucken, Germany
Exp Psychol 55:234-42. 2008..This is indicative of the repeated masked semantic priming effect being a negatively signed semantic priming effect due to a center-surround mechanism...- Decomposing the emotional Stroop effectChristian Frings
Saarland University, Saarbrucken, Germany
Q J Exp Psychol (Hove) 63:42-9. 2010.... - Crossmodal congruency effects based on stimulus identityChristian Frings
Faculty of Behavioral Sciences, Department of Psychology, Saarland University, Building A2 4, PO Box 15 11 50, Germany
Brain Res 1354:113-22. 2010..Intriguingly, the magnitude of the crossmodal congruency effects differed as a function of the target modality, but were unaffected by the modality of the distractor... - On the decay of distractor-response episodesChristian Frings
Saarland University, Faculty of Behavioral Sciences, Department of Psychology, Saarbrucken, Germany
Exp Psychol 58:125-31. 2011..In addition, distractor repetition effects were affected by the temporal separability. In concert, the data yield evidence for retrieval-based explanations of distractor-to-distractor repetitions... - Increased perceptual and conceptual processing difficulty makes the immeasurable measurable: negative priming in the absence of probe distractorsChristian Frings
Faculty of Behavioral Sciences, Department of Psychology, Saarland University, Faculty of Behavioral Sciences, Department of Psychology, Building A24, P O Box 15 11 50, D 66041 Saarbrucken
J Exp Psychol Hum Percept Perform 37:72-84. 2011..In addition, our results also show that NP without probe distractors can be found by exclusively manipulating probe display processing. This finding furthers our understanding of the processes causing NP... - Binding targets' responses to distractors' locations: distractor response bindings in a location-priming taskChristian Frings
Faculty of Behavioral Sciences, Department of Psychology, Saarland University, Saarbrucken, Germany
Atten Percept Psychophys 72:2176-83. 2010.... - When seeing doesn't matter: assessing the after-effects of tactile distractor processing in the blind and the sightedChristian Frings
Faculty of Behavioral Sciences, Department of Psychology, Saarland University, Saarbrucken, Germany
J Exp Psychol Hum Percept Perform 37:1174-81. 2011..These results suggest that non-spatial tactile distractors are processed and selected quite differently from visual distractors... - To be or not to be...included in an event file: integration and retrieval of distractors in stimulus-response episodes is influenced by perceptual groupingChristian Frings
Department of Psychology, Saarland University, Saarbrucken, Germany
J Exp Psychol Learn Mem Cogn 37:1209-27. 2011..In 6 experiments, we found evidence for the modulation of distractor-response bindings according to perceptual grouping principles... - Selection in touch: negative priming with tactile stimuliChristian Frings
Saarland University, Faculty of Behavioral Sciences, Department of Psychology, Saarbrülcken, Germany
Percept Psychophys 70:516-23. 2008..This result shows that tactile selection is in part achieved by active ignoring of distractor representations, as has been shown previously in both the visual and auditory modalities... - Prime retrieval of motor responses in negative priming: evidence from lateralized readiness potentialsChristian Frings
Department of Psychology, Saarland University, Saarbrucken, Germany
Brain Res 1407:69-78. 2011..In addition, the results show that executing a prime response is not a precondition for stimulus-response bindings... - Negative priming with masked distractor-only prime trials: awareness moderates negative primingChristian Frings
Faculty of Behavioral Sciences, Department of Psychology, Saarland University, Saarbrucken, Germany
Exp Psychol 52:131-9. 2005..e., the prime contains the to-be-attended vs. the to-be-ignored signal) did not moderate NP. These findings are discussed with regard to theories of negative priming and the debate on conscious vs. unconscious perception... - Negative priming is stronger for task-relevant dimensions: Evidence of flexibility in the selective ignoring of distractor informationChristian Frings
Department of Psychology, Faculty of Behavioral Sciences, Saarland University, Saarbrucken, Germany
Q J Exp Psychol (Hove) 59:683-93. 2006..These results suggest that selective NP is a much more flexible process than previously assumed... - Strategy effects counteract distractor inhibition: negative priming with constantly absent probe distractorsChristian Frings
Department of Psychology, Saarland University, Saarbrucken, Germany
J Exp Psychol Hum Percept Perform 32:854-64. 2006..For this reason, the data suggest that the absence of NP, which is usually observed under these conditions, may be due to a contingency-based component... - Relevant distractors do not cause negative primingChristian Frings
Saarland University, Saarbrucken, Germany
Psychon Bull Rev 13:322-7. 2006..In contrast, no slowing was observed for participants' own names when those names had just previously been used as distractors... - Prime display offset modulates negative priming only for easy-selection tasksChristian Frings
Faculty of Behavioral Sciences, Department of Psychology, Saarland University, Saarbrucken, Germany
Mem Cognit 35:504-13. 2007..A modified version of the selective attention model can explain the results of the present study. However, we also discuss the results in light of episodic retrieval theory and temporal discrimination theory... - Children do show negative priming: further evidence for early development of an intact selective control mechanismChristian Frings
Saarland University, Faculty of Behavioral Sciences, Department of Psychology, Saarbrucken, Germany
Dev Psychol 43:1269-73. 2007..The authors also linked this empirical finding to the broader literature on negative priming by a direct comparison with an adult sample... - Distractor repetitions retrieve previous responses to targetsChristian Frings
Department of Psychology, Saarland University, Saarbrucken, Germany
Q J Exp Psychol (Hove) 60:1367-77. 2007..In three experiments we confirmed this prediction: Distractor repetition facilitated responding in the probe in the case of response repetition whereas repeating the distractor delayed responding in the case of response change... - Electrophysiological correlates of visual identity negative primingChristian Frings
Cognitive Psychology Unit, Department of Psychology, Saarland University, Saarbruecken, Germany
Brain Res 1176:82-91. 2007.... - Category priming with aliens: analysing the influence of targets' prototypicality on the centre surround inhibition mechanismChristian Frings
Department of Psychology, Saarland University, Saarbrucken, Germany
Memory 19:585-96. 2011..e., material that prevents experimental manipulation of prototypicality) observed mixed results concerning the prototypicality of targets... - Trial-by-trial effects in the affective priming paradigmChristian Frings
Saarland University, Faculty of Behavioral Sciences, Department of Psychology, Saarbrucken, Germany
Acta Psychol (Amst) 128:318-23. 2008..Furthermore, our results can help to improve the statistical power of studies in which the affective priming task is used as a measure for automatic evaluations of attitude-objects... - Reversing the N400: event-related potentials of a negative semantic priming effectChristina Bermeitinger
Saarland University, Saarbrucken, Germany
Neuroreport 19:1479-82. 2008..The result indicates that the N400 can reflect temporarily reduced access to semantic representations... - Nature and facts about natural and artifactual categories: Sex differences in the semantic priming paradigmChristina Bermeitinger
Department of Psychology, Saarland University, Campus A2 4, D 66123 Saarbrucken, Germany
Brain Lang 106:153-63. 2008..functional features. The results can be interpreted as first evidence that there are (eventually in addition to different "crystallized" semantic structures) specific default processing modes that differ for males and females... - Further evidence for "hyper-priming" in thought-disordered schizophrenic patients using repeated masked category primingDirk Wentura
Saarland University, Department of Psychology, Saarbrucken, Germany
Schizophr Res 102:69-75. 2008..Previous research has yielded evidence for enhanced semantic priming in formal thought-disordered schizophrenia patients, a result that fits well with the hypothesis of disinhibited processes of spreading activation in this population... - Where has all the inhibition gone? Insights from electrophysiological measures into negative priming without probe distractorsChristian Groh-Bordin
Clinical Neuropsychology Unit, Department of Psychology, Saarland University, Saarbruecken, Germany
Brain Cogn 71:92-8. 2009..This effect is interpreted as reflecting automatic retrieval of the prime episode occurring independently of the presence of probe distractors... - Remember the touch: tactile distractors retrieve previous responses to targetsBirte Moeller
Faculty of Behaviorial Sciences, Department of Psychology, Saarland University, Campus A2 4, 66123 Saarbrucken, Germany
Exp Brain Res 214:121-30. 2011..Our results indicate that binding of responses to distractors is a cognitive process that is independent of the stimulus' modality... - How to switch on and switch off semantic priming effects for natural and artifactual categories: activation processes in category memory depend on focusing specific feature dimensionsChristina Bermeitinger
Department of Psychology, University of Hildesheim, Marienburger Platz 22, 31141, Hildesheim, Germany
Psychon Bull Rev 18:579-85. 2011.... - Integrating the irrelevant soundBirte Moeller
Department of Psychology, University of Trier, Germany
Exp Psychol 59:258-64. 2012..Distractor-based retrieval of the prime response was stronger for the grouped compared to the non-grouped presentation of stimuli indicating that binding of irrelevant auditory stimuli with responses is modulated by perceptual grouping... - Differences in the strength of distractor inhibition do not affect distractor-response bindingsCarina Giesen
Department of Psychology, Friedrich Schiller Universitat Jena, Am Steiger 3, Haus 1, D 07743 Jena, Germany
Mem Cognit 40:373-87. 2012..Instead, our results suggest that distractor-response binding and distractor inhibition are independent mechanisms that are recruited for the automatization of behavior and action control... - Repeated masked category primes interfere with related exemplars: new evidence for negative semantic primingDirk Wentura
Department of Psychology, Saarland University, Saarbrucken, Germany
J Exp Psychol Learn Mem Cogn 31:108-20. 2005..The results are discussed with regard to different theories on semantic priming... - When the brain decides: a familiarity-based approach to the recognition heuristic as evidenced by event-related brain potentialsTimm Rosburg
Saarland University, Department of Psychology, Experimental Neuropsychology Unit, Campus, Building A2 4, D 66123 Saarbrucken, Germany
Psychol Sci 22:1527-34. 2011..Specifically, the findings show that familiarity--that is, recognition in the absence of recollection--contributes to decisions made on the basis of such heuristics... - Response to Paller et al.: the role of familiarity in making inferences about unknown quantitiesAxel Mecklinger
Department of Psychology, Saarland University, Campus D 66123 Saarbrücken, Germany
Trends Cogn Sci 16:315-6. 2012..2011) and is also too limited to account for the midfrontal old/new effect (FN400), which, in our view, is a multiply determined familiarity-related brain signal... - A case for inhibition: visual attention suppresses the processing of irrelevant objectsPeter Wuhr
Friedrich Alexander Universitat, Institut fur Psychologie I, Kochstrasse 4, Erlangen 91054, Germany
J Exp Psychol Gen 137:116-30. 2008..In summary, results support the notion of an inhibitory mechanism of object-based attention, which can be applied in addition to the amplification of relevant objects...