Priming of awareness or how not to measure visual awareness

Journal of Vision

Volumn 14, Issue 1, 2014, Pages

  Lin, Zhicheng ^a   Murray, Scott O ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

Cognitive control; Consciousness; Priming of awareness; Top down attention; Unconscious processing; Visual awareness

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ATTENTION; AWARENESS; BEHAVIOR; CONSCIOUSNESS; EXECUTIVE FUNCTION; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; PHOTOSTIMULATION; PHYSIOLOGY; PRIMING OF AWARENESS; REPETITION PRIMING; TOP-DOWN ATTENTION; UNCONSCIOUS PROCESSING; VISION; VISUAL AWARENESS; YOUNG ADULT;

COGNITIVE CONTROL; CONSCIOUSNESS; PRIMING OF AWARENESS; TOP-DOWN ATTENTION; UNCONSCIOUS PROCESSING; VISUAL AWARENESS;

ATTENTION; AWARENESS; BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; PHOTIC STIMULATION; REPETITION PRIMING; VISUAL PERCEPTION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84893582796     PISSN: None     EISSN: 15347362     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1167/14.1.27     Document Type: Article

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