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Adult; Association Learning; Attention; Awareness; Cues; Discrimination Learning; Female; Humans; Male; Orientation; Pattern Recognition, Visual; Psychomotor Performance; Psychophysics; Reaction Time; Subliminal Stimulation
Abstract:
In a recent study, it was shown that subliminal primirig (SP) effects are affected by the tern a stimulus onset If predictability is not given, SP effects are eliminated (Naccache, Blandin, & Dehaene, 2002). In two experiments, we investigated how different levels of preparation for target processing affect SP effects. For this purpose, an accessory tone stimulus was presented at different times prior to a subliminal priming task. The results demonstrate a clear modulation of the SP effects at different foreperiod intervals. Relative to conditions without an accessory stimulus, SP effects were smaller for short foreperiod intervals of the accessory stimulus, and larger for long foreperiod intervals. The results suggest that the presentation of an accessory stimulus facilitates response activation processes because of the participants' enhanced level of preparation for stimulus processing. Copyright 2007 Psychonomic Society, Inc.
