Unconscious semantic processing of polysemous words is not automatic.

ABSTRACT: Semantic processing of visually presented words can be identified both on behavioral and neurophysiological evidence. One of the major discoveries of the last decades is the demonstration that these signatures of semantic processing, initially observed for consciously perceived words, can also be detected for masked words inaccessible to conscious reports. In this context, the distinction between conscious and unconscious verbal semantic processing constitutes a challenging scientific issue. A prominent view considered that while conscious representations are subject to executive control, unconscious ones would operate automatically in a modular way, independent from control and top-down influences. Recent findings challenged this view by revealing that endogenous attention and task-settin

SUBMITTER: Rohaut B 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6084553 | biostudies-literature | 2016

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature