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A handful of studies have revealed that withholding a response to a sound causes impaired responding to that sound when subsequently presented (Buchner & Steffens, 2001; Mondor, Leboe, & Leboe, 2005). In the present study, we investigated whether a switch in the location of a repeated sound might represent an additional source of this auditory negative priming effect. In all three of our experiments, participants performed a series of trials in which they withheld a response to a dichotic pair of prime sounds presented to each ear. A dichotic pair ofprobe sounds was then presented to each ear, and the participants were required to categorize one of them. Across these experiments, the participants were slower to categorize only repeated sounds that were presented in opposite locations.
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This research was supported by grants to J.P.L. and T.A.M. from the Natural Science and Engineering Research Council of Canada.
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Leboe, J.P., Mondor, T.A. & Leboe, L.C. Feature mismatch effects in auditory negative. Perception & Psychophysics 68, 897–910 (2006). https://doi.org/10.3758/BF03193353
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