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| Research article summary (published 30 Aug 2002): |
Unconscious masked priming depends on temporal attention.
Full Abstract
The cognitive processes at work in masked priming experiments are usually considered automatic and independent of attention. We provide evidence against this view. Three behavioral experiments demonstrate that the occurrence of unconscious priming in a number comparison task is determined by the allocation of temporal attention to the time window during which the prime-target pair is presented. Both response-congruity priming and physical repetition priming vanish when temporal attention is focused away from this time window. These findings are inconsistent with the concept of a purely automatic spreading of activation during masked priming.
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Author information
Author/s: Naccache, Lionel (L); Blandin, Elise (E); Dehaene, Stanislas (S);
Affiliation: Clinical Neurophysiology Department, Hôpital de la Pitié-Salpêtrière, Paris, France. naccache(-atsign-)shfj.cea.fr
Journal and publication information
Publication Type: Journal Article; Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
Journal: Psychological science : a journal of the American Psychological Society / APS (Psychol Sci), published in United States. (Language: eng)
Reference: 2002-Sep; vol 13 (issue 5) : pp 416-24
Dates: Created 2002/09/10; Completed 2002/10/21; Revised 2006/11/15;
PMID: 12219807, status: MEDLINE (last retrieval date: 11/6/2008)
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