AUTHOR=Schrobsdorff Hecke , Ihrke Matthias , Behrendt Jörg , Hasselhorn Marcus , Herrmann J M.

TITLE=Inhibition in the Dynamics of Selective Attention: An Integrative Model for Negative Priming

JOURNAL=Frontiers in Psychology

VOLUME=Volume 3 - 2012

YEAR=2012

URL=https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/psychology/articles/10.3389/fpsyg.2012.00491

DOI=10.3389/fpsyg.2012.00491

ISSN=1664-1078

ABSTRACT= We introduce a computational model of the negative priming (NP) effect that
  includes perception, memory, attention, decision making, and action. The model
  is designed to provide a coherent picture across competing theories of NP and
  to relate psychological experiments to physiological measurements. The model
  is formulated in terms of an abstract dynamics of activations of features,
  their binding into object entities or their semantic categorization as well as
  related memories and implied reactions. The dynamical variables interact in a
  connectionist network which is shown to be adaptable to a variety of
  experimental paradigms. We find that selective attention can be modeled by
  means of inhibitory processes and by a threshold dynamics. Considering the
  implementation it becomes obvious that the specificity of the experimental
  paradigm must be taken into account when predicting the nature of the NP
  effect.