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Immediate and long-term priming effects are independent of prime awareness.
MedLine Citation:
PMID:  21550825     Owner:  NLM     Status:  MEDLINE    
Abstract/OtherAbstract:
Subliminal primes are assumed to produce weaker and short-lived effects on subsequent behavior compared to clearly visible primes. However, this difference in priming effect may be due to differences in signal strength, rather than level of awareness. In the present study we manipulated prime discriminability by using metacontrast masks and pseudomasks, while keeping the prime strength equal. This manipulation resulted in large differences in discriminability of the primes. However, both immediate response priming and long-term response priming (measured with conflict adaptation) was equal for the poorly discriminable and well discriminable primes, and equal for groups that differed markedly in terms of how well they could discriminate the primes. Our findings imply that discriminability of information is independent of both the immediate and long-term effects that information can have on behavior.
Authors:
Jolien C Francken; Simon van Gaal; Floris P de Lange
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Publication Detail:
Type:  Journal Article; Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't     Date:  2011-05-07
Journal Detail:
Title:  Consciousness and cognition     Volume:  20     ISSN:  1090-2376     ISO Abbreviation:  Conscious Cogn     Publication Date:  2011 Dec 
Date Detail:
Created Date:  2011-10-21     Completed Date:  2012-02-24     Revised Date:  2012-10-16    
Medline Journal Info:
Nlm Unique ID:  9303140     Medline TA:  Conscious Cogn     Country:  United States    
Other Details:
Languages:  eng     Pagination:  1793-800     Citation Subset:  IM    
Copyright Information:
Copyright © 2011 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
Affiliation:
Radboud University Nijmegen, Donders Institute for Brain, Cognition and Behavior, The Netherlands.
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MeSH Terms
Descriptor/Qualifier:
Adult
Awareness*
Conflict (Psychology)
Discrimination (Psychology)
Female
Humans
Male
Perceptual Masking
Photic Stimulation
Reaction Time
Recognition (Psychology)
Repetition Priming*
Subliminal Stimulation
Time Factors
Visual Perception
Young Adult
Comments/Corrections
Comment In:
Conscious Cogn. 2012 Sep;21(3):1571-2; discussion 1573-4   [PMID:  22381265 ]

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