More Power to the Unconscious: Conscious, but Not Unconscious, Exogenous Attention Requires Location Variation

Psychological Science

Volumn 26, Issue 2, 2015, Pages 221-230

  Lin, Zhicheng ^a,b   Murray, Scott O ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^b OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

attentional aftereffect; consciousness; exogenous attention; repeated cuing; unconscious processing

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ASSOCIATION; ATTENTION; AWARENESS; CONSCIOUSNESS; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; ORIENTATION; PHYSIOLOGY; YOUNG ADULT;

ADULT; ATTENTION; AWARENESS; CONSCIOUSNESS; CUES; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; ORIENTATION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84922744319     PISSN: 09567976     EISSN: 14679280     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0956797614560770     Document Type: Article

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