Exclusion failure does not demonstrate unconscious perception II: evidence from a forced-choice exclusion task.

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Systematic failure to perform exclusion (making a response that opposes the participant's natural inclinations) for briefly displayed, masked words has been interpreted as evidence of unconscious perception. The present study required participants to make a forced-choice exclusion after viewing masked word targets. The forced-choice exclusion task was properly performed in all experiments, in contrast to previous studies that have utilized stem-completion as a dependent variable. The exclusion failure effects interpreted as unconscious perception in earlier studies appear to be caused by an insensitive dependent variable (stem-completion) rather than unconscious perception.

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Author/s: Fisk, Gary D (GD); Haase, Steven J (SJ);

Affiliation: Department of Psychology and Sociology, Georgia Southwestern State University, 800 Wheatley Street, Americus, GA 31709, USA. gdf(-atsign-)canes.gsw.edu <gdf(-atsign-)canes.gsw.edu>

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Publication Type: Journal Article

Journal: Vision research (Vision Res), published in England. (Language: eng)

Reference: 2006-Nov; vol 46 (issue 25) : pp 4244-51

Dates: Created 2006/10/23; Completed 2007/01/18; Revised 2008/11/21;

PMID: 17034832, status: MEDLINE (last retrieval date: 12/26/2008)

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