Priming of natural scene categorization during continuous flash suppression

No effect of attentional modulation by spatial cueing in a masked numerical priming paradigm using continuous flash suppression (CFS)

“…This additional cognitive load may have further increased the dual-task costs, triggered by prime onset. Together with the relatively long prime-target SOA in our study (200 ms), there is the question whether positive priming effects are to be expected at all, or whether the results are more in the range of inverse priming effects, i.e., negative compatibility effects ( Baumann & Valuch, 2022 ; Lingnau & Vorberg, 2005 ).…”

“…The authors refer to this effect as “nonconscious overstimulation cost”, based on a neural habituation priming model that explains the change from positive to negative priming with increasing prime duration ( Huber & O’Reilly, 2003 ). In a recent study investigating priming of natural scene categorization during CFS ( Baumann & Valuch, 2022 ), positive prime-target congruency effects were observed for the shortest RTs, confirming the presence of response priming, whereas inverted congruency effects were observed for the longest RTs, suggesting that response inhibition processes were also at work.…”

Unconscious integration: Current evidence for integrative processing under subliminal conditions

“…They proposed presenting ‘liminal’ stimuli that would be subliminal on some trials and (partially) visible on others (awareness measured trial‐by‐trial through a graded subjective scale), and the magnitude of performance differences between the subliminal and the visible trials can then be compared to assess how much the process depends on conscious perception. Acknowledging the difficulty of successfully rendering stimuli subliminal, and the methodological issues associated with excluding ‘aware’ participants and trials, some recent studies have opted to compare how processing differ according to visibility levels, without aiming for ‘zero visibility’ (Baumann & Valuch, 2022; Valuch & Mattler, 2019).…”

“…When using subliminal stimuli, studies should compare how processing changes depending on awareness/visibility levels, rather than whether the process can occur with no awareness/visibility. In other words, the focus should be on how much the process depends on conscious perception (Lamy et al, 2019), rather than whether the process can occur without conscious perception at all (Baumann & Valuch, 2022; Valuch & Mattler, 2019).…”