Perception without awareness: Further evidence from a Stroop priming task

• Published in: Perception & psychophysics Vol. 64; no. 8; pp. 1316 - 1324
• Main Authors: DAZA, M. Teresa, ORTELLS, Juan J, FOX, Elaine
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Austin, TX Psychonomic Society 01.11.2002
• Subjects: Adult; Awareness; Biological and medical sciences; Cognition; Fundamental and applied biological sciences. Psychology; Humans; Perception; Perceptual Masking; Photic Stimulation - methods; Psychology. Psychoanalysis. Psychiatry; Psychology. Psychophysiology; Random Allocation; Reaction Time; Vision; Visual Perception; Vocabulary; Facilitation; Human; Word; Stimulus onset asynchrony; Priming effect; Color; Interference; Cognition; Experimental study; Stroop effect; Vision; Perception; Consciousness unconsciousness; Masking

In the present research, we examined the influence of prime-target stimulus onset asynchrony (SOA) on Stroop-priming effects from masked words. Participants indicated the color of a central target, which was preceded by a 33-msec prime word followed either immediately or after a variable delay by a...