Publications by authors named "Thorsten A Brinkmann"
Evaluative priming in a semantic flanker task: ERP evidence for a mutual facilitation explanation.
Cogn Affect Behav Neurosci
March 2014
Article Synopsis
- Semantic flanker tasks show that the response times for categorizing targets are influenced by how closely related the flankers are in terms of their meaning and evaluative valence.
- Researchers examined how positive and negative associations between flankers and targets affect this "flanker effect," hypothesizing that concepts that share evaluative congruency enhance each other's activation.
- Results confirmed that when flankers and targets are evaluatively congruent, they either help or hinder the processing of the target, as shown by both behavioral data and brain activity measurements, suggesting significant implications for understanding how we represent and process evaluative meanings.