Testing the attentional boundary conditions of subliminal semantic priming: The influence of semantic and phonological task sets

Frontiers in Human Neuroscience

Volumn , Issue AUGUST, 2012, Pages

  Adams, Sarah C ^a   Kiefer, Markus ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ULM   (Germany)

Author keywords

Attention; Automatic processes; Masked semantic priming; Task sets; Unconscious visual processing

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; ATTENUATION; AWARENESS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DECISION MAKING; EVOKED VISUAL RESPONSE; EXECUTIVE FUNCTION; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LATENT PERIOD; MALE; MASKING; NORMAL HUMAN; ORIENTING RESPONSE; PERCEPTIVE THRESHOLD; PHONETICS; SEMANTICS; TASK PERFORMANCE; UNCONSCIOUSNESS; VOWEL; WORD RECOGNITION;

EID: 84933675904     PISSN: 16625161     EISSN: 16625161     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fnhum.2012.00241     Document Type: Article

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