The influence of intention on masked priming: A study with semantic classification of words

Eckstein, Perrig · Cognition · 2007 · cognitive-psychology · 10.1016/j.cognition.2006.07.005 · record Eckstein2007-the-influence-of-intention-on-masked-priming
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unconscious perception intentional control automatic masked priming An intention instantiates a task-set that pre-tunes the automatic perceptual-classification-response chain, so masked primes are run through the same task-defined categorization as targets and interfere at the response stage Above-chance prime discrimination arises because forced-choice responding under uncertainty recruits the very same practised automatic classification processes, not because the primes were consciously seen priming short-lived priming priming effect affect priming combined priming task-set test task prime masking accuracy of target classification responses prime discrimination stimulus set ANOVA ANOVA mixed-model design t-test onesample t tests signal detection sensitivity index correlation the correlation between priming and da planned contrast a planned contrast power analysis post-hoc power analysis ... using the GPower program alpha level standard deviation Standard deviations are given in parentheses behavioural-experiment

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limitationsThe results do not settle whether the priming effects rest on conscious or nonconscious prime perception.
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limitationsExperiment 4's masked-vs-unmasked comparison was underpowered for small differences.
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limitationsSemantic processing of primes in this paradigm is bounded by what was practised beforehand, limiting claims about semantic depth.
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controlsparticipants were randomly assigned to the evaluative-decision or the animacy-decision task
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conceptsunconscious perception
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sensesIT ARGUES IN 2007 WHAT hesselmann2016 OFFERS IN 2016 AS SPECULATION: `Quotation withheld. We challenge this view by arguing that some automatic processes may indeed be under intentional control.` hesselmann2016 closes with `SPECULATIVELY, the category task might have DESENSITIZED perceptual pathways ... the shape task SENSITIZED` them, citing Kiefer 2012. This paper made it the thesis of three experiments nine years earlier, and the 2016 paper does not cite it. Two records, one claim, nine years, no link - the corpus can show that without asserting anyone should have known
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sensesAND THE AWARENESS RESULT CUTS ACROSS Finkbeiner2011 FROM THE OTHER SIDE: `Quotation withheld.` The same primes are above chance under one awareness test and at chance under another. Finkbeiner2011 argues the prime-classification task UNDERESTIMATES awareness because it is harder; this shows the answer depends on WHICH TASK, not only how hard. Every subliminal claim in this corpus rests on a single such test
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sensesAND ONE SENTENCE MAKES THE WHOLE FRAMING AWKWARD: `priming was as pronounced when the primes were visible as when they were invisible.` If visibility does not change the effect, awareness was never the variable. Schmidt2010 reaches the same place from a different paradigm - a qualitative dissociation with the stimuli in plain view - and this is the second record today to arrive there. Two papers, two methods, one conclusion the masked-priming literature is organised against
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sensesAND THE MECHANISM IS THE TASK, NOT THE STIMULUS: `Quotation withheld.` Same words, same masks, same subjects - only the instruction changed, and the priming changed with it. That is a manipulation of the observer rather than of the stimulus, which is rare in this corpus and is why the result bears on what `automatic` can mean
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content_tagsWith one and the same word set, masked priming appeared only on the dimension the current task required: valence congruency affected only the valence task and animacy congruency only the animacy task.
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content_tagsA brand-new, never-practised classification (a disjunction/conjunction of the two practised categories) produced larger task-relevant priming than the simple single-dimension tasks did.
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content_tagsPrime discrimination in the direct test was clearly above chance in both groups (accuracy 0.66 and 0.74).
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content_tagsParticipants could not discriminate masked word from nonword primes in a lexical decision task.
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content_tagsUnmasking the primes did not cancel priming.
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content_tagsAmount of priming was unrelated to how well an individual could discriminate the primes.
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content_tagsThe main effect of test half was not significant.
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content_tagsaccuracy of target classification responses
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content_tagsF(1, 22) = 29.85, p < .001 — the task x type-of-priming interaction in Experiment 1, showing priming was confined to the task-relevant dimension
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content_tagsF(1, 14) = 20.95, p < .001 — the same interaction in Experiment 3, where the task was switched within subjects every 16 trials
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content_tagsda = 0.42 — prime discrimination in Experiment 3, above chance despite the shortened 42 ms prime
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content_tagst(7) = 3.51, p = .01 vs t(6) = 1.67, p = .15 — lexical-decision prime discrimination was above zero only for unmasked primes, not for masked ones
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content_tags0.91 — post-hoc statistical power to detect a borderline-conscious discrimination effect (da = 0.3) in the masked group
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content_tags482 ms — the deadline within which classification responses had to be produced under the response-window procedure
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content_tags56 ms — prime presentation duration in Experiments 1 and 2, between a 156 ms premask and a 14 ms postmask
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content_tags60% — share of inaccurate responses on incongruent trials even when primes were fully visible
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content_tags26 — number of participants recruited for Experiment 1
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