Unconscious perception: The need for a paradigm shift

Authors: Daniel Holender; Katia Duscherer

Source: Perception & Psychophysics, Volume 66, Number 5, 1 July 2004 , pp. 872-881(10)

Publisher: Psychonomic Society Publications

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Abstract:

According to Snodgrass, Bernat, and Shevrin (2004), unconscious perception can be demonstrated convincingly only at the objective detection threshold, provided that the conditions of their objective detection/strategic model are met, whereas both the subjective threshold model of Cheesman and Merikle (1984, 1986) and the objective threshold/rapid decay model of Greenwald, Draine, and Abrams (1996) are inconclusive. We argue on theoretical, metatheoretical, and empirical grounds that all three dual-process models, which are based on both conscious and unconscious perception, should be rejected in favor of the single-process conscious perception model.

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