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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.