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During affective priming, perception of an emotional “prime stimulus” influences the reaction time to the subsequent emotional “target stimulus”. If prime and target have the same valence (congruent trials), reactions to the target are faster than if prime and target have different valences (incongruent trials). Bem introduced a backward priming paradigm in 2011, where first the target was presented and then the prime after the response. Similar to the classical affective forward priming effects, he found faster reaction times in congruent compared to incongruent trials, and interpreted these results as evidence supporting precognition. In the present exploratory study, while measuring EEG, we combined a forward priming paradigm with a related backward priming paradigm, following Bem’s study. We analysed the EEG data on a group level (ERPs) and on an individual level (single participants, applying artificial neural networks). We found significantly faster reaction times for congruent compared to incongruent trials in the forward priming experiment (p = 0.0004) but no statistically significant differences in the backward priming experiment (p = 0.12). We also found significant differences in ERP amplitude in the forward priming congruent vs incongruent conditions (P8 electrode: p = 0.0002). Backward priming results show weaker, shorter, and less significant differences between congruent and incongruent trials, with maxima at electrodes P7, P3, CP5, and CP1. The neural network results were very variable across participants in both the backward and forward priming and on average, the accuracy results were at chance level for both the forward priming as well as the backward priming. Our results replicate behavioural findings and extend the EEG findings for forward priming. We did not replicate Bem’s backward priming results. These exploratory EEG results are weak, however they give a good starting point for future studies.
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The Necker-Zeno model of bistable perception provides a formal relation between the average duration of meta-stable percepts (dwell times T) of ambiguous figures and two other basic time scales (t(0), ΔT) underlying cognitive processing. The model predicts that dwell times T covary with t(0), ΔT or both. We tested this prediction by exploiting that observers, in particular experienced meditators, can volitionally control dwell times T. Meditators and non-meditators observed bistable Necker cubes either passively or tried to hold their current percept. The latencies of a centro-parietal event-related potential (CPP) were recorded as a physiological correlate of t(0). Dwell times T and the CPP latencies, correlated with t(0), differed between conditions and observer groups, while ΔT remained constant in the range predicted by the model. The covariation of CPP latencies and dwell times, as well as their quadratic functional dependence extends previous psychophysical confirmation of the Necker-Zeno model to psychophysiological measures.
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- Event-related potentials
- Adult (1)
- Ambiguous figures (1)
- Behavior (1)
- Bistable perception (1)
- Cerebral Cortex/*physiology (1)
- Cognitive time scales (1)
- EEG (1)
- Electroencephalography (2)
- Event-Related Potentials, P300/physiology (1)
- Evoked Potentials/*physiology (1)
- Female (1)
- Humans (1)
- Male (1)
- *Meditation (1)
- Meditation (1)
- Middle Aged (1)
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- Necker cube (1)
- Necker-Zeno model (1)
- Neural networks (1)
- Parapsychology (1)
- Pattern Recognition, Visual/*physiology (1)
- Priming (psychology) (1)
- Psychomotor Performance/*physiology (1)
- Quantum cognition (1)
- Reaction time (1)
- Semantics (1)
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