2001 年 20 巻 1 号 p. 31-32
In the previous study (Nagai, Yokosawa, & Takano, 2000), we found that negative priming did not occur when distractor characters were rotated (180°), regardless of whether target characters were rotated or not. In the present study, we investigated whether the rotated distractors would produce interference in order to examine the relation between distractor interference and negative priming. As a result, the interference by rotated distractors was not observed when the targets were upright (Experiment 1), whereas it was observed when the targets were also rotated (Experiment 2). We discussed the reason why the interference depended upon the targets' orientation and its relation to negative priming in our previous study.