Unconscious processing of multiple nonadjacent letters in visually masked words

Consciousness and Cognition

Volumn 14, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 585-601

  Abrams, Richard L ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^b DICKINSON COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

Priming; Subliminal; Unconscious

Indexed keywords

ANALYTIC METHOD; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EGO DEVELOPMENT; EVALUATION; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INFORMATION PROCESSING; NORMAL HUMAN; READING; SEMANTICS; VISUAL MEMORY; WORD RECOGNITION;

CONSCIOUSNESS; HUMANS; MENTAL PROCESSES; PERCEPTUAL MASKING; PSYCHOLINGUISTICS; REACTION TIME; SEMANTICS; SUBLIMINAL STIMULATION; UNITED STATES;

EID: 23644440428     PISSN: 10538100     EISSN: 10902376     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.concog.2005.01.004     Document Type: Article

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