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Unconscious masked priming depends on temporal attention.
MedLine Citation:
PMID:  12219807     Owner:  NLM     Status:  MEDLINE    
Abstract/OtherAbstract:
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.
Authors:
Lionel Naccache; Elise Blandin; Stanislas Dehaene
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Publication Detail:
Type:  Journal Article; Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't    
Journal Detail:
Title:  Psychological science     Volume:  13     ISSN:  0956-7976     ISO Abbreviation:  Psychol Sci     Publication Date:  2002 Sep 
Date Detail:
Created Date:  2002-09-10     Completed Date:  2002-10-21     Revised Date:  2011-05-20    
Medline Journal Info:
Nlm Unique ID:  9007542     Medline TA:  Psychol Sci     Country:  United States    
Other Details:
Languages:  eng     Pagination:  416-24     Citation Subset:  IM    
Affiliation:
Clinical Neurophysiology Department, Hôpital de la Pitié-Salpêtrière, Paris, France. naccache@shfj.cea.fr
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MeSH Terms
Descriptor/Qualifier:
Adult
Attention*
Automatism / psychology*
Female
Humans
Male
Pattern Recognition, Visual*
Perceptual Masking*
Problem Solving
Psychomotor Performance
Reaction Time*
Semantics

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