ArticleNeuropsychologia2019
Emotional priming depends on the degree of conscious experience.
Article in Neuropsychologia, 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 10 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.
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- Affective priming from briefly presented facial expressions: a three-level and network meta-analysis.BMC psychology · 2026Pooled it
- Updated Expectations are Needed for Masked Priming Experiments: Commentary on Tsikandilakis et al. (2025).Integrative psychological & behavioral science · 2026Article
- Reappraising intuitions about consciousness.Frontiers in psychology · 2026Article
- Affective priming through Indian ragas: influence on perception of ambiguous visual stimuli and creativity.Frontiers in psychology · 2026Article
- Comment on 'Criterion placement threatens the construct validity of neural measures of consciousness'.eLife · 2025Article
- Ultrahigh Field fMRI Reveals Different Roles of the Temporal and Frontoparietal Cortices in Subjective Awareness.The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience · 2024Article
- Gender differences in subliminal affective face priming: A high-density ERP study.Brain and behavior · 2021Article
- The Perceptual Awareness Scale-recent controversies and debates.Neuroscience of consciousness · 2021Article
- Phenomenal consciousness and cognitive access.Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences · 2018Article
- Neural Responses to Consciously and Unconsciously Perceived Emotional Faces: A Spinal fMRI Study.Brain sciences · 2018Article
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Abstract
Most experiments in consciousness research assume that awareness is a dichotomous 'either/or' phenomenon. However, participants can distinguish multiple levels of subjective experience of simple features (colour, shape etc.), which correlate with their performance in different tasks. As experiments showing multiple levels of perceptual awareness question the widespread idea that many forms of perception can occur unconsciously, we investigated emotional priming combined with methods able to measure small variations in subjective experience. We show awareness of emotional faces is gradual rather than dichotomous, and that the effects of emotional priming are predicted by the level of perceptual awareness of emotional faces, with no effects when reported unseen. The results question how much unconscious perceptions can influence behaviour. As priming is one of the most well-established phenomena believed to occur unconsciously, the results expand the growing body of evidence that questions the contributions of unconscious processing on behaviour.
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