A cue from the unconscious - masked symbols prompt: Spatial anticipation

Frontiers in Psychology

Volumn 3, Issue OCT, 2012, Pages

  Reuss, Heiko ^a   Kiesel, Andrea ^a   Kunde, Wilfried ^a   Wühr, Peter ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WÜRZBURG   (Germany)

^b TU DORTMUND UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Anticipation; Endogenous shifts of attention; Masked priming; Spatial cueing; Unconscious processing

Indexed keywords

EID: 84870981536     PISSN: None     EISSN: 16641078     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2012.00397     Document Type: Article

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