Negative Priming in a Spatial Localization Task: Feature Mismatching and Distractor Inhibition

Negative priming has recently been demonstrated in tasks requiring spatial localization (S. P. Tipper, J. C. Brehaut, & J. Driver, 1990), supporting the notion that distractors are actively inhibited during selection. However, it has since been argued that this effect is caused by the appearance of mismatching identities at a single location (J. Park & N. Kanwisher, 1994). The present studies show that negative priming in a spatial localization …