Affective and cognitive reactions to subliminal flicker from fluorescent lighting

Consciousness and Cognition

Volumn 26, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 97-104

  Knez, Igor ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GÄVLE   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Affect; Flicker; Fluorescent lighting; Implicit perception; Problem solving; Subliminal perception

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; COGNITION; CRITICAL FLICKER FUSION; FEMALE; FLUORESCENT LIGHTING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; IMPLICIT MEMORY; LONG TERM MEMORY; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PERCEPTION; PROBLEM SOLVING; SELF REPORT; SHORT TERM MEMORY; TASK PERFORMANCE; VISION; ADOLESCENT; AFFECT; FLUORESCENCE; ILLUMINATION; PERCEPTIVE THRESHOLD; PHYSIOLOGY; RANDOMIZATION; YOUNG ADULT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AFFECT; COGNITION; FLUORESCENCE; HUMANS; LIGHTING; MALE; RANDOM ALLOCATION; SUBLIMINAL STIMULATION; TASK PERFORMANCE AND ANALYSIS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84897426579     PISSN: 10538100     EISSN: 10902376     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.concog.2014.02.006     Document Type: Article

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