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ERIC Number: EJ761554
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2007-Jul
Pages: 17
Abstractor: Author
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ISSN: ISSN-0010-0277
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Unconscious Priming According to Multiple S-R Rules
Kiesel, Andrea; Kunde, Wilfried; Hoffmann, Joachim
Cognition, v104 n1 p89-105 Jul 2007
The present study investigated if unconscious primes can be processed according to different stimulus-response (S-R) rules simultaneously. Participants performed two different S-R rules, such as judging a digit as smaller or larger than five and judging a letter as vowel or consonant. These S-R rules were administered in random order and announced by a previously presented cue. Each target stimulus was preceded by subliminal primes which afforded a different or an identical response according to either the currently irrelevant or currently relevant S-R rule. In three experiments, we consistently found priming effects according to currently irrelevant S-R rules, even when primes for the relevant and irrelevant S-R rules were presented simultaneously. Thus, unconscious stimuli have the power to activate responses according to currently required and currently not required S-R rules concurrently. The results are in line with response activation accounts of subliminal priming and suggest that at least two routes may gain access on response processes simultaneously.
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research
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Language: English
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