No diffference between conscious and nonconscious visuomotor control: Evidence from perceptual learning in the masked prime task
Schlaghecken, Friederike, Blagrove, Elisabeth and Maylor, Elizabeth A. . (2008) No diffference between conscious and nonconscious visuomotor control: Evidence from perceptual learning in the masked prime task. Consciousness and Cognition, Vol.17 (No.1). pp. 84-93. ISSN 1053-8100Full text not available from this repository.
Official URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.concog.2006.11.004
Negative compatibility effects (NCEs) in the masked-prime paradigm are usually obtained when primes are masked effectively. With ineffective masks-and primes above the perceptual threshold-positive compatibility effects (PCEs) occur. We investigated whether this pattern reflects a causal relationship between conscious awareness and low-level motor control, or whether it reflects the fact that both are affected in the same way by changes in physical stimulus attributes. In a 5-session perceptual learning task, participants learned to consciously identify masked primes. However, they showed unaltered NCEs that were not different from those produced by participants in a control group without equivalent perceptual learning. A control experiment demonstrated that no NCEs occur when prime identification is made possible by ineffective masking. The results suggest that perceptual awareness and low-level motor control are affected by the same factors, but are fundamentally independent of each other. (c) 2006 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
|Item Type:||Journal Article|
|Subjects:||B Philosophy. Psychology. Religion > BF Psychology|
|Divisions:||Faculty of Science > Psychology|
|Journal or Publication Title:||Consciousness and Cognition|
|Official Date:||March 2008|
|Number of Pages:||10|
|Page Range:||pp. 84-93|
|Access rights to Published version:||Restricted or Subscription Access|
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