The Essential Role of Executive Attention in Unconscious Visuomotor Priming.

ABSTRACT: Many reports have emphasized that unconscious processing demands attention. However, some studies were unable to observe a modulation of attentional load in subliminal visual processing. We proposed that the paradoxical phenomena could be explained based on whether the mental workload task was involved in central executive processes. In two experiments, by combining a masked shape discrimination task with an N-back task, executive attention availability for masked visuomotor processing decreased as the N-back task demand increased. We observed that unconscious visuomotor priming diminished with increasing executive attention load in Experiment 2; however, this pattern did not occur in Experiment 1. Further analysis verified that in Experiment 1, the role of the central executive in unconsc

SUBMITTER: Mao X 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9198630 | biostudies-literature | 2022

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature