Unconscious processing of color and form in metacontrast masking

Attention, Perception, and Psychophysics

Volumn 71, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 95-103

  Ro, Tony ^a   Singhal, Neel S ^b   Breitmeyer, Bruno G ^c   Garcia, Javier O ^d  

^a CITY COLLEGE OF NEW YORK   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF HOUSTON   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; AWARENESS; COLOR VISION; CONTRAST SENSITIVITY; EGO DEVELOPMENT; FEMALE; HUMAN; LEARNING; MALE; ORIENTATION; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PERCEPTION; PERCEPTIVE THRESHOLD; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; REACTION TIME;

ADOLESCENT; ASSOCIATION LEARNING; AWARENESS; COLOR PERCEPTION; CONTRAST SENSITIVITY; CUES; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; ORIENTATION; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PERCEPTUAL MASKING; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; REACTION TIME; SUBLIMINAL STIMULATION; UNCONSCIOUS (PSYCHOLOGY); YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 64749111923     PISSN: 19433921     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3758/APP.71.1.95     Document Type: Article

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