SynthesisPsychonomic bulletin & review2022
Raising awareness about measurement error in research on unconscious mental processes.
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- Replicating the unconscious working memory effect: a multisite Registered Report.Neuroscience of consciousness · 2026Article
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- Kelley's Paradox and strength skewness in research on unconscious mental processes.Psychonomic bulletin & review · 2025Review
- The Conscious Side of 'Subliminal' Linguistic Priming: A Systematic Review With Meta-Analysis and Reliability Analysis of Visibility Measures.Journal of cognition · 2025Article
- In Search of an Integrative Method to Study Unconscious Processing: An Application of Bayesian and General Recognition Theory Models to the Processing of Hierarchical Patterns in the Absence of Awareness.Journal of cognition · 2025Article
- New methods, old questions: advancing the study of unconscious perception.Frontiers in psychology · 2025Review
- Neural correlates of unconscious processing in functional magnetic resonance imaging: does brain activity contain more information than can be consciously reported?Neuroscience of consciousness · 2025Article
- Training can enhance unconscious response priming on fast trials even when measuring consciousness on a trial-by-trial basis.Neuroscience of consciousness · 2025Article
- No evidence for contextual cueing beyond explicit recognition.Psychonomic bulletin & review · 2024Article
- Differential effects of bilateral hippocampal CA3 damage on the implicit learning and recognition of complex event sequences.Cognitive neuroscience · 2024Article
- Perceptual foundation and extension to phase tagging for rapid invisible frequency tagging (RIFT).Imaging neuroscience (Cambridge, Mass.) · 2024Article
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Abstract
Experimental psychologists often neglect the poor psychometric properties of the dependent measures collected in their studies. In particular, a low reliability of measures can have dramatic consequences for the interpretation of key findings in some of the most popular experimental paradigms, especially when strong inferences are drawn from the absence of statistically significant correlations. In research on unconscious cognition, for instance, it is commonly argued that the lack of a correlation between task performance and measures of awareness or explicit recollection of the target stimuli provides strong support for the conclusion that the cognitive processes underlying performance must be unconscious. Using contextual cuing of visual search as a case study, we show that given the low reliability of the dependent measures collected in these studies, it is usually impossible to draw any firm conclusion about the unconscious character of this effect from correlational analyses. Furthermore, both a psychometric meta-analysis of the available evidence and a cognitive-modeling approach suggest that, in fact, we should expect to see very low correlations between performance and awareness at the empirical level, even if both constructs are perfectly related at the latent level. Convincing evidence for the unconscious character of contextual cuing and other effects will most likely demand richer and larger data sets, coupled with more powerful analytic approaches.
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