The relationship between cognitive ability and positive and negative priming in identity and spatial priming tasks

Citation
H. Koshino et al., The relationship between cognitive ability and positive and negative priming in identity and spatial priming tasks, J GEN PSYCH, 127(4), 2000, pp. 372-382
Citations number
27
Language
INGLESE
art.tipo
Article
Categorie Soggetti
Psycology
Journal title
JOURNAL OF GENERAL PSYCHOLOGY
ISSN journal
0022-1309 → ACNP
Volume
127
Issue
4
Year of publication
2000
Pages
372 - 382
Database
ISI
SICI code
0022-1309(200010)127:4<372:TRBCAA>2.0.ZU;2-V
Abstract
The authors examined whether stimulus activation and inhibition in the iden tity priming task are related to the temporal lobe, and whether these proce sses in the spatial priming task are related to the parietal lobe. Forty pa rticipants performed spatial and identity positive and negative priming tas ks, the Vandenberg Mental Rotation task, and the Digit Span task. Both men and women showed significant positive and negative priming in the identity and spatial tasks with no gender difference. The magnitude of identity posi tive priming was predicted by the Digit Span task, and the magnitude of spa tial positive priming was predicted by the mental rotation task. Only women showed a correlation between spatial ability and spatial negative priming. The results are partially consistent with the dorsal-ventral model of cogn itive inhibition.