Visual stimuli (primes) presented too briefly to be consciously identified
can nevertheless affect responses to subsequent stimuli-an instance
of unconscious cognition. There is a lively debate as to whether
such priming effects originate from unconscious semantic processing
of the primes or from reactivation of learned motor responses that
conscious stimuli afford during preceding practice. In four experiments
we demonstrate that unconscious stimuli owe their impact neither
to automatic semantic categorization nor to memory traces of preceding
stimulus-response episodes, but to their match with pre-specified
cognitive action-trigger conditions. The intentional creation of
such triggers allows actors to control the way unconscious stimuli
bias their behaviour.
%0 Journal Article
%1 Kunde:2003b
%A Kunde, W.
%A Kiesel, A.
%A Hoffmann, J.
%D 2003
%J COGNITION
%K KeyWords MASKED MOTOR-RESPONSES; PERCEPTION; Plus: STIMULI; TASK WORDS; action cognition; control number processing; unconscious
%P 223-242
%T Conscious control over the content of unconscious cognition
%V 88
%X Visual stimuli (primes) presented too briefly to be consciously identified
can nevertheless affect responses to subsequent stimuli-an instance
of unconscious cognition. There is a lively debate as to whether
such priming effects originate from unconscious semantic processing
of the primes or from reactivation of learned motor responses that
conscious stimuli afford during preceding practice. In four experiments
we demonstrate that unconscious stimuli owe their impact neither
to automatic semantic categorization nor to memory traces of preceding
stimulus-response episodes, but to their match with pre-specified
cognitive action-trigger conditions. The intentional creation of
such triggers allows actors to control the way unconscious stimuli
bias their behaviour.
@article{Kunde:2003b,
abstract = {Visual stimuli (primes) presented too briefly to be consciously identified
can nevertheless affect responses to subsequent stimuli-an instance
of unconscious cognition. There is a lively debate as to whether
such priming effects originate from unconscious semantic processing
of the primes or from reactivation of learned motor responses that
conscious stimuli afford during preceding practice. In four experiments
we demonstrate that unconscious stimuli owe their impact neither
to automatic semantic categorization nor to memory traces of preceding
stimulus-response episodes, but to their match with pre-specified
cognitive action-trigger conditions. The intentional creation of
such triggers allows actors to control the way unconscious stimuli
bias their behaviour.},
added-at = {2009-06-26T15:25:19.000+0200},
author = {Kunde, W. and Kiesel, A. and Hoffmann, J.},
biburl = {https://www.bibsonomy.org/bibtex/2e88baace5caf09619011dbc05b199493/butz},
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journal = {COGNITION},
keywords = {KeyWords MASKED MOTOR-RESPONSES; PERCEPTION; Plus: STIMULI; TASK WORDS; action cognition; control number processing; unconscious},
owner = {butz},
pages = {223-242},
timestamp = {2009-06-26T15:25:43.000+0200},
title = {Conscious control over the content of unconscious cognition},
volume = 88,
year = 2003
}