The relationship between the objective identification threshold and priming effects does not provide a definitive boundary between conscious and unconscious perceptual processes

Consciousness and Cognition

Volumn 20, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 1221-1231

  Fisk, Gary D ^a   Haase, Steven J ^b  

^a GEORGIA SOUTHWESTERN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b SHIPPENSBURG UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Dissociation.; Lexical decision; Objective Threshold Strategic Model; Repetition priming; Semantic priming; Subliminal perception; Unconscious perception

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; COGNITION; CONSCIOUSNESS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DECISION MAKING; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MODEL; PERCEPTION; PREDICTION; RECOGNITION;

CONSCIOUSNESS; HUMANS; PERCEPTUAL MASKING; PHOTIC STIMULATION; REACTION TIME; REPETITION PRIMING; SENSORY THRESHOLDS; SUBLIMINAL STIMULATION; UNCONSCIOUS (PSYCHOLOGY); VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 80054848220     PISSN: 10538100     EISSN: 10902376     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.concog.2011.03.016     Document Type: Article

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