Subliminal priming with nearly perfect performance in the prime-classification task

Attention, Perception, and Psychophysics

Volumn 73, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 1255-1265

  Finkbeiner, Matthew ^a  

^a MACQUARIE UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Prime identification; Subliminal priming; Visual awareness

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ATTENTION; COLOR VISION; HUMAN; PAIRED ASSOCIATE LEARNING; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PERCEPTION; PERCEPTIVE THRESHOLD; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; PSYCHOPHYSICS; REACTION TIME; SEMANTICS;

ATTENTION; COLOR PERCEPTION; HUMANS; PAIRED-ASSOCIATE LEARNING; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PERCEPTUAL MASKING; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; PSYCHOPHYSICS; REACTION TIME; SEMANTICS; SUBLIMINAL STIMULATION;

EID: 79955846278     PISSN: 19433921     EISSN: 1943393X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3758/s13414-011-0088-8     Document Type: Article

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