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Demonstrations of subconscious processing with the binary exclusion task

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 January 2014

Navindra Persaud
Affiliation:
Faculty of Medicine, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON M5B 1X2, Canada. nav.persaud@utoronto.ca
Peter McLeod
Affiliation:
Department of Experimental Psychology, University of Oxford, Queen's College, Oxford OX1 4AW, United Kingdom. peter.mcleod@queens.ox.ac.uk

Abstract

The binary exclusion task involves “subtle priming effects” and a measure of awareness that is reliable, relevant, immediate, and sensitive. This task, which meets the criteria outlined in the target article, has been used to demonstrate subconscious processing.

Type
Open Peer Commentary
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2014 

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