Influence of Temporal Expectations on Response Priming by Subliminal Faces.

ABSTRACT: Unconscious processes are often assumed immune from attention influence. Recent behavioral studies suggest however that the processing of subliminal information can be influenced by temporal attention. To examine the neural mechanisms underlying these effects, we used a stringent masking paradigm together with fMRI to investigate how temporal attention modulates the processing of unseen (masked) faces. Participants performed a gender decision task on a visible neutral target face, preceded by a masked prime face that could vary in gender (same or different than target) and emotion expression (neutral or fearful). We manipulated temporal attention by instructing participants to expect targets to appear either early or late during the stimulus sequence. Orienting temporal attention to sublim

SUBMITTER: Pichon S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5072568 | biostudies-literature | 2016

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature