Early and Late Selection in Unconscious Information Processing

Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance

Volumn 36, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 268-285

  Pohl, Carsten ^a   Kiesel, Andrea ^a   Kunde, Wilfried ^b   Hoffmann, Joachim ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WÜRZBURG   (Germany)

^b TU DORTMUND UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

early late selection; masked priming

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; COGNITION; DECISION MAKING; EGO DEVELOPMENT; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; PERCEPTION; PERCEPTIVE THRESHOLD; PHOTOSTIMULATION; REACTION TIME; SEMANTICS; TIME; VISION;

CHOICE BEHAVIOR; COGNITION; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; PERCEPTUAL MASKING; PHOTIC STIMULATION; REACTION TIME; SEMANTICS; SUBLIMINAL STIMULATION; TIME FACTORS; UNCONSCIOUS (PSYCHOLOGY); VISUAL PERCEPTION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 77950590827     PISSN: 00961523     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/a0015793     Document Type: Article

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