Hemisphere differences in conscious and unconscious word reading

Consciousness and Cognition

Volumn 13, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 550-564

  Fecteau, Jillian H ^a,b   Kingstone, Alan ^a   Enns, James T ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^b QUEEN S UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Conscious awareness; Explicit processing; Hemisphere differences; Implicit processing; Masking; Perception without awareness; Unconscious priming; Word reading

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BRAIN ASYMMETRY; BRAIN CORTEX; CONSCIOUSNESS; CONTROLLED STUDY; EGO DEVELOPMENT; FEMALE; HEMISPHERE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LEFT HEMISPHERE; MALE; MEASUREMENT; READING; SPLIT BRAIN; VISUAL FIELD; WORD RECOGNITION;

ADULT; AWARENESS; BRAIN; CONSCIOUSNESS; CORPUS CALLOSUM; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HUMANS; MALE; PERCEPTUAL MASKING; READING; UNCONSCIOUS (PSYCHOLOGY); VOCABULARY;

EID: 4344639439     PISSN: 10538100     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.concog.2004.05.007     Document Type: Article

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