Working memory biasing of visual perception without awareness

Attention, Perception, and Psychophysics

Volumn 76, Issue 7, 2014, Pages 2051-2062

  Pan, Yi ^a   Lin, Bingyuan ^a   Zhao, Yajun ^b   Soto, David ^c  

^a HANGZHOU NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b SOUTHWEST UNIVERSITY FOR NATIONALITIES   (China)

^c IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Conscious awareness; Interocular suppression; Nonconscious processing; Top down modulation; Visual prior entry; Working memory

Indexed keywords

ASSOCIATION; AWARENESS; CONSCIOUSNESS; FACE; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PHYSIOLOGY; REACTION TIME; REPETITION PRIMING; SHORT TERM MEMORY; VISION;

AWARENESS; CONSCIOUSNESS; CUES; FACE; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MEMORY, SHORT-TERM; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; REACTION TIME; REPETITION PRIMING; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 84904578358     PISSN: 19433921     EISSN: 1943393X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3758/s13414-013-0566-2     Document Type: Article

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