Subliminal temporal integration of linguistic information under discontinuous flash suppression.

ABSTRACT: Whether unconscious complex visual information integration occurs over time remains largely unknown and highly controversial. Previous studies have tended to use a combination of strong masking or suppression and a weak stimulus signal (e.g., low luminance), resulting in a low signal-to-noise ratio during unconscious stimulus presentation. To lengthen the stimulus exposure, we introduced intermittent presentation into interocular suppression. This discontinuous suppression allowed us to insert a word during each suppression period and deliver multiple words over time unconsciously. We found that, after participants received the subliminal context, they responded faster to a syntactically incongruent target word in a lexical decision task. We later replicated the finding in a separate exper

SUBMITTER: Hung SM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8164368 | biostudies-literature | 2021 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature