Attentional sensitization of unconscious visual processing: Top-down influences on masked priming

Attentional sensitization of unconscious visual processing: Top-down influences on masked priming Kiefer Adams Zovko

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Attentional sensitization of unconscious visual processing: Top-down influences on masked priming 2012 Advances in Cognitive Psychology 10.5709/acp-0102-4 Kiefer2012-attentional-sensitization-of-unconscious-vis Kiefer2012-attentional-sensitization-of-unconscious-vis.txt, the project's staged copy 5254264243bd63ba76c06514ca9246ba8267c5da not-redistributable cognitive-psychology

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0 spans located by searching the stored text for the quote's exact words, allowing any whitespace between them mechanism Quotation withheld because this record is not cleared for redistribution. subliminal masked priming Quotation withheld because this record is not cleared for redistribution. review review Quotation withheld because this record is not cleared for redistribution. mechanisms Task representations raise the neuronal gain of task-relevant processing pathways and lower it in task-irrelevant ones, so unconscious stimuli are amplified or attenuated according to their congruence with the current task set Quotation withheld because this record is not cleared for redistribution. mechanisms Prefrontal top-down signals adjust the sensitivity of posterior processing pathways to incoming sensory input, whether or not that input reaches awareness Quotation withheld because this record is not cleared for redistribution. mechanisms Backward inhibition suppresses the just-abandoned task set while the next task is prepared, which reverses the direction of the sensitization effect at long intervals Quotation withheld because this record is not cleared for redistribution. mechanisms Attentional sensitization applies to unconscious and conscious stimuli alike, being blind to whether the stimulus is consciously perceived Quotation withheld because this record is not cleared for redistribution. The model's central neural assumption, a prefrontal top-down signal modulating posterior pathway sensitivity, has not yet been tested in detail. Quotation withheld because this record is not cleared for redistribution. The theory is not yet formally specified, so its predictions about the dynamics of attentional control remain imprecise. Quotation withheld because this record is not cleared for redistribution. The gain parameter of neural network models, together with attentional gain modulation observed in primate single-cell recordings, is imported as the computational mechanism of the psychological attentional sensitization model Quotation withheld because this record is not cleared for redistribution. automaticity automaticity Quotation withheld because this record is not cleared for redistribution. autonomous autonomous Quotation withheld because this record is not cleared for redistribution. attentional sensitization attentional sensitization Quotation withheld because this record is not cleared for redistribution. top-down control top-down control Quotation withheld because this record is not cleared for redistribution. subliminal priming subliminal priming Quotation withheld because this record is not cleared for redistribution. task sets task sets Quotation withheld because this record is not cleared for redistribution. attentional resources attentional resources Quotation withheld because this record is not cleared for redistribution. automaticity, CLASSICAL - and the sense worth recording is the OPERATIONAL consequence rather than the phrasing: if automatic processes are autonomous, then a behavioural or neurophysiological effect `has to be INVARIANT in order to index a truly automatic process`. The definition dictates a test, the test is invariance, and invariance is what gets measured. A conceptual assumption turned into an experimental criterion Quotation withheld because this record is not cleared for redistribution. A DEFINITION REJECTED BECAUSE ITS EXTENSION IS EMPTY. Attention and task demands modulate nearly every effect that has been looked at, so `it is difficult to identify processes that actually meet the classical criteria` - and `the apparent lack of processes that fully meet the criteria of automaticity renders the classical view UNSATISFACTORY`. Not refuted by a counter-example: retired because nothing in the world satisfies it. That is a distinct way for a term to change and the corpus should be able to find the cases Quotation withheld because this record is not cleared for redistribution. automaticity, REVISED - the same word with one criterion removed: automatic now means `does not depend on conscious awareness` and `is initiated without deliberate intention`, and no longer means unmodulable. The paper states the consequence explicitly - unconscious automatic processing and attentional control `is NOT A CONTRADICTION as it has been previously thought`. Two criteria kept, one dropped, and the dropped one is the one that was selecting nothing Quotation withheld because this record is not cleared for redistribution. subliminal priming used as the HARD CASE for a general claim about automaticity: it is the field's prototypical automatic process, so showing four separate top-down influences on it - attentional resources, stimulus expectations, action intentions, task sets - is an argument about automaticity in general rather than about priming. The corpus's central phenomenon serving as somebody else's test object Quotation withheld because this record is not cleared for redistribution. contradicts → classical theories of automaticity (Posner & Snyder, 1975; Schneider & Shiffrin, 1977) Quotation withheld because this record is not cleared for redistribution. builds-on → Kiefer & Martens, 2010 Quotation withheld because this record is not cleared for redistribution. attentional sensitization —contrasted-with→ autonomous attentional sensitization autonomous differs in: WHETHER AN UNCONSCIOUS PROCESS CAN BE REACHED FROM ABOVE - the classical account makes autonomy definitional, this one makes prior attentional configuration a PRECONDITION for the process running at all. Not a weaker version of the same claim: the direction of dependence is reversed · strength of the relation: 0.95 · note: THE PAPER'S ARGUMENT, and the abstract states both sides in one sentence pair - 'In contrast to these classical conceptions'. Confidence 0.95. Quotation withheld because this record is not cleared for redistribution. top-down control —causes→ subliminal priming top-down control subliminal priming direction on the measure: increases · strength of the relation: 0.9 · note: The direction is recorded as 'increases' because the paper's own summary is 'enhances OR attenuates' - attention moves the effect in either direction depending on congruence with the task set, which is the point. A 'no-change' reading would be wrong and a purely positive one incomplete; the quote carries both words. Audit 2026-09-28: DOUBTFUL - read against its full span and kept, but attentional manipulations 'MODULATE' subliminal priming; the 'increases' sign is not stated. Quotation withheld because this record is not cleared for redistribution. task sets —causes→ subliminal priming task sets subliminal priming direction on the measure: increases · strength of the relation: 0.9 · note: One of the four enumerated influences, kept as its own edge because 'what the participant is set up to do changes what an unseen stimulus does' is the concrete form of the configuration claim. Audit 2026-09-28: DOUBTFUL - read against its full span and kept, but subliminal priming 'is modulated by task sets' and attention 'enhances or attenuates'; the 'increases' sign is not stated. Quotation withheld because this record is not cleared for redistribution. attentional resources —causes→ subliminal priming attentional resources subliminal priming direction on the measure: increases · strength of the relation: 0.9 · note: The sharpest of the four against the classical view: a process that consumes attentional resources is not autonomous by anybody's definition. Quotation withheld because this record is not cleared for redistribution. A semantic induction task performed shortly before a masked prime enhanced subsequent subliminal semantic priming in both reaction time and N400, whereas a perceptual induction task attenuated it. Quotation withheld because this record is not cleared for redistribution. The pattern reversed at the long response-prime interval, with priming present after the perceptual but not the semantic induction task. Quotation withheld because this record is not cleared for redistribution. Semantic and visuo-motor priming were doubly dissociated by induction task type, with visuo-motor priming appearing only after the perceptual task. Quotation withheld because this record is not cleared for redistribution. Attentional sensitization operates even within the perceptual domain: only a shape induction task, not a colour one, produced occipito-parietal ERP priming. Quotation withheld because this record is not cleared for redistribution. A phonological letter-classification induction task, which discourages word reading, abolished subsequent subliminal semantic priming. Quotation withheld because this record is not cleared for redistribution. attentional sensitization model of unconscious cognition attentional sensitization model of unconscious cognition Quotation withheld because this record is not cleared for redistribution. gain gain Quotation withheld because this record is not cleared for redistribution. preemptive control preemptive control Quotation withheld because this record is not cleared for redistribution. reactive control reactive control Quotation withheld because this record is not cleared for redistribution. task set task set Quotation withheld because this record is not cleared for redistribution. conditional automaticity conditional automaticity Quotation withheld because this record is not cleared for redistribution. masked visuo-motor response priming masked visuo-motor response priming Quotation withheld because this record is not cleared for redistribution. masked semantic priming masked semantic priming Quotation withheld because this record is not cleared for redistribution. N400 ERP component N400 ERP component Quotation withheld because this record is not cleared for redistribution. induction task paradigm induction task paradigm Quotation withheld because this record is not cleared for redistribution. type of induction task type of induction task Quotation withheld because this record is not cleared for redistribution. RPI RPI Quotation withheld because this record is not cleared for redistribution. subliminal priming effect subliminal priming effect Quotation withheld because this record is not cleared for redistribution. 200 or 800 ms — The two response-prime intervals between the induction-task response and masked prime onset, manipulated to track how the task set decays Quotation withheld because this record is not cleared for redistribution. about 600 ms — Duration a task representation is claimed (from the task-switching literature) to remain active after task completion, motivating the choice of the two RPIs Quotation withheld because this record is not cleared for redistribution. 40 targets — Large target set size in the cited Kiesel et al. expectancy manipulation, contrasted with a small four-target set Quotation withheld because this record is not cleared for redistribution.

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