Multisensory Integration in Complete Unawareness: Evidence From Audiovisual Congruency Priming

Psychological Science

Volumn 25, Issue 11, 2014, Pages 2006-2016

  Faivre, Nathan ^a   Mudrik, Liad ^b   Schwartz, Naama ^b   Koch, Christof ^c  

^a CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b EPFL   (Switzerland)

^c ALLEN INSTITUTE FOR BRAIN SCIENCE   (United States)

Author keywords

awareness; consciousness; masking; multisensory integration; open data; open materials; semantic priming

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ASSOCIATION; AUDITORY STIMULATION; AWARENESS; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; PERCEPTION; PERCEPTIVE THRESHOLD; PHOTOSTIMULATION; PROCEDURES; REACTION TIME; YOUNG ADULT;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AWARENESS; CUES; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; PERCEPTUAL MASKING; PHOTIC STIMULATION; REACTION TIME; SUBLIMINAL STIMULATION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84910628021     PISSN: 09567976     EISSN: 14679280     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0956797614547916     Document Type: Article

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