Subliminal understanding of negation: Unconscious control by subliminal processing of word pairs

Consciousness and Cognition

Volumn 22, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 1022-1040

  Armstrong, Anna Marie ^a   Dienes, Zoltan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SUSSEX   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Contrast masking; Guessing criterion; Subjective thresholds; Subliminal priming; Unconscious cognition

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN FUNCTION; COGNITION; COMPREHENSION; CONSCIOUSNESS; CONTRAST; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEFENSE MECHANISM; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; INTELLIGENCE; MALE; MASKING; MOTIVATION; NEGATION; NORMAL HUMAN; PERCEPTION; SEMANTIC MEMORY; STIMULUS RESPONSE; TASK PERFORMANCE; UNCONSCIOUS COGNITION; WORD RECOGNITION;

CONTRAST MASKING; GUESSING CRITERION; SUBJECTIVE THRESHOLDS; SUBLIMINAL PRIMING; UNCONSCIOUS COGNITION;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; COGNITION; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; PERCEPTUAL MASKING; REACTION TIME; REPETITION PRIMING; SUBLIMINAL STIMULATION; UNCONSCIOUS (PSYCHOLOGY); YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84881519507     PISSN: 10538100     EISSN: 10902376     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.concog.2013.06.010     Document Type: Article

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