Task cue influences on lexical decision performance and masked semantic priming effects: The role of cue-task compatibility.

ABSTRACT: Recent research demonstrated that mere presentation of a task cue influences subsequent unconscious semantic priming by attentional sensitization of related processing pathways. The direction of this influence depended on task-set dominance. Dominant task sets with a compatible cue-task mapping were supposed to be rapidly suppressed, while weak task sets showed more sustainable activation. Building on this research, we manipulated cue-task compatibility as instance of task-set dominance in two experiments and tested how masked semantic priming was influenced by actually performing the cued task (induction-task trials) or by mere cue presentation (task cue-only trials). In induction-task trials, the results of earlier research were replicated; semantic priming was larger following a semanti

SUBMITTER: Berger A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9630217 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature