Assessing subjective prime awareness on a trial-by-trial basis interferes with masked semantic priming effects.
Journal of experimental psychology. Learning, memory, and cognition February 1, 2023 Markus Kiefer, Marcel Harpaintner, Michaela Rohr et al.
Ratings of perceptual experience on a trial-by-trial basis are increasingly used in masked priming studies to assess prime awareness. It is argued that such subjective ratings more adequately capture the content of phenomenal consciousness compared to the standard objective psychophysical measures obtained in a session after the priming experiment. However, the concurrent implementation of the...