“…Thus, the NCE is generally perceived as a behavioural indicator of the occurrence of unconscious inhibitory processes; that is, the prime automatically triggers an initial activation of their corresponding motor response, which is subsequently inhibited. Within this framework, competing hypotheses assume either that the NCE reflects an automatic activation-followed-by-inhibition process (Bowman, Schlaghecken, & Eimer, 2006; Eimer, 1999; Eimer & Schlaghecken, 1998, 2002; Schlaghecken & Eimer, 2002, 2004) or that inhibition is triggered by perceiving the mask (Boy, Clarke, & Sumner, 2008; Jaśkowski, 2007, 2008; Jaśkowski, Białuńska, Tomanek, & Verleger, 2008; Schmidt, Hauch, & Schmidt, 2015). Schlaghecken and Eimer (2002) suggested that the perceptual strength of the prime must be sufficiently large to reach the inhibitory threshold, after which the inhibitory process can be triggered (inhibitory threshold account).…”