Meanings of negative priming in English

Results: Results suggest that reduced negative priming is related to positive schizotypy.

Spatial interference and negative priming tasks were used to assess spatial selective attention.

Neither psychopathology nor any sociodemographic variable correlated substantially with negative priming.

Objectives: The relationship between negative priming and the positive symptoms of schizotypy was investigated.

It was hypothesized that high schizotypes would display less negative priming than low schizotypes.

In the present study, it was investigated whether reduced negative priming in schizophrenics may be an experimental artifact.

Design: A paper test based on the German version of the Stroop test was used to measure negative priming.

A conflict adaptation effect was present for RTs that could not be accounted for by associative or negative priming.

Results strongly suggest that reduced negative priming in schizophrenics may not be due to reduced cognitive inhibition but mirrors perceptual deficits.

Reduced negative priming in high schizotypes was unrelated to dyslexia, and found unlikely to be affected by deficits in early processing.

In line with prediction, reduced negative priming in schizophrenics only occurred for trials with 100 ms prime presentation time followed by a mask.