Unconscious priming of task sets: The role of spatial attention

Attention, Perception, and Psychophysics

Volumn 74, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 105-114

  Zhou, Fanzhi Anita ^a   Davis, Greg ^a  

^a University of Cambridge   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Attention; Cognitive control; dlPFC; Dorsolateral prefrontal cortex; Executive; Priming; Unconscious perception

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; ATTENTION; AWARENESS; COLOR VISION; DEPTH PERCEPTION; EGO DEVELOPMENT; EXECUTIVE FUNCTION; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; ORIENTATION; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PERCEPTIVE THRESHOLD; PHONETICS; REACTION TIME; SEMANTICS;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ASSOCIATION; ATTENTION; AWARENESS; COLOR PERCEPTION; CUES; EXECUTIVE FUNCTION; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; ORIENTATION; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PHONETICS; REACTION TIME; SEMANTICS; SPACE PERCEPTION; SUBLIMINAL STIMULATION; UNCONSCIOUS (PSYCHOLOGY); YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84856180791     PISSN: 19433921     EISSN: 1943393X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3758/s13414-011-0221-8     Document Type: Article

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