The role of visual awareness for conflict adaptation in the masked priming task: Comparing block-wise adaptation with trial-by-trial adaptation

Frontiers in Psychology

Volumn 5, Issue NOV, 2014, Pages

  Hasegawa, Kunihiro ^a   Takahashi, Shin'ya ^b  

^a NAGOYA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b TOKAI GAKUEN UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Cognitive control; Conflict adaptation; Contingency learning; Proportion congruency; Subliminal priming

Indexed keywords

EID: 84923339512     PISSN: None     EISSN: 16641078     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2014.01347     Document Type: Article

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