Supraliminal but not subliminal distracters bias working memory recall.

ABSTRACT: Information of which observers are not consciously aware can nevertheless influence perceptual processes. Whether subliminal information might exert an influence on working memory (WM) representations is less clear, and relatively few studies have examined the interactions between subliminal and supraliminal information in WM. We present 3 experiments examining this issue. Experiments 1a and b replicated the finding that orientation stimuli can influence behavior subliminally in a visuomotor priming task. Experiments 2 and 3 used the same orientation stimuli, but participants had to remember a target orientation and report it back by adjusting a probe orientation after a memory delay. Before or after presentation of the target orientation, a subliminal or supraliminal distracter orientatio

SUBMITTER: Wildegger T 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4445384 | biostudies-literature | 2015 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature