Subliminal number priming within and across the visual and auditory modalities

Experimental Psychology

Volumn 56, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 418-433

  Kouider, Sid ^a,b   Dehaene, Stanislas ^b,c  

^a ECOLE NORMALE SUPÉRIEURE   (France)

^b DIF   (France)

^c Centre de Recherche Interdisciplinaire en Biologie   (France)

Author keywords

Cross modal; Numerosity; Priming; Subliminal

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; AWARENESS; EGO DEVELOPMENT; HUMAN; PERCEPTION; PERCEPTIVE THRESHOLD; PHOTOSTIMULATION; PHYSIOLOGY; REACTION TIME; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; VISION;

ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ATTENTION; AWARENESS; HUMANS; PERCEPTUAL MASKING; PHOTIC STIMULATION; REACTION TIME; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SUBLIMINAL STIMULATION; UNCONSCIOUS (PSYCHOLOGY); VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 68649101512     PISSN: 16183169     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1027/1618-3169.56.6.418     Document Type: Article

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