Integration without awareness: Expanding the limits of unconscious processing

Psychological Science

Volumn 22, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 764-770

  Mudrik, Liad ^a   Breska, Assaf ^b   Lamy, Dominique ^a   Deouell, Leon Y ^b  

^a TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^b HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

Author keywords

awareness; binocular rivalry; continuous flash suppression; incongruency; integration; object background relations; scene perception

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; AWARENESS; COGNITION; CONSCIOUSNESS; EGO DEVELOPMENT; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; PHOTOSTIMULATION; VISION;

ADULT; AWARENESS; COGNITION; CONSCIOUSNESS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; PHOTIC STIMULATION; UNCONSCIOUS (PSYCHOLOGY); VISUAL PERCEPTION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 79958180721     PISSN: 09567976     EISSN: 14679280     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0956797611408736     Document Type: Article

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