Unconscious task set priming with phonological and semantic tasks

Consciousness and Cognition

Volumn 22, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 517-527

  Weibel, Sébastien ^a   Giersch, Anne ^a   Dehaene, Stanislas ^b   Huron, Caroline ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL OF STRASBOURG   (France)

^b Cognitive Neuroimaging Unit ^*  (France)

Author keywords

Cognitive control; Consciousness; Masking; Phonological judgment; Semantic judgment; Task switching

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COGNITION; EGO DEVELOPMENT; EXECUTIVE FUNCTION; FEMALE; HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; MALE; MENTAL TASK; NORMAL HUMAN; PERCEPTION; PHONETICS; REPETITION PRIMING; SEMANTICS; TASK PERFORMANCE;

EID: 84875768790     PISSN: 10538100     EISSN: 10902376     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.concog.2013.02.010     Document Type: Article

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