Publications by authors named "Nitzan Micher"
Article Synopsis
- Assessing unconscious processing relies on accurate measures of conscious perception, but subjective reports and forced-choice discrimination often yield conflicting results.
- Researchers investigated this issue using masked response priming to compare how invisible primes are processed versus consciously perceived primes.
- Their findings indicate that while subjects can perform above chance in forced-choice discrimination for unseen stimuli, this performance likely reflects unconscious processing rather than conscious awareness.
Finding that invisible primes affect categorization of visible targets (response priming) is held to demonstrate that semantic processing does not require conscious perception. However, the effects are typically very small, they do not indicate whether conscious perception enhances response priming and they often reflect visuo-motor rather than semantic processing. Here, we compared response priming elicited by liminal words when these were clearly seen vs missed, while participants categorized target animals' names.
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