Evidence of weak conscious experiences in the exclusion task

Frontiers in Psychology

Volumn 5, Issue SEP, 2014, Pages

  Sandberg, Kristian ^a,b   Del Pin, Simon H ^c   Bibby, Bo M ^d   Overgaard, Morten ^a,c  

^a AARHUS UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Denmark)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^c AALBORG UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

^d AARHUS UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Consciousness; Exclusion paradigm; Perceptual awareness scale; Subliminal perception; Unconscious processing

Indexed keywords

EID: 84907184760     PISSN: None     EISSN: 16641078     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2014.01080     Document Type: Article

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