Theta-band behavioral oscillations in face priming with and without conscious awareness
Journal of Pacific Rim Psychology April 21, 2026 Mengjin Li, Bingbing Guo, Guiping Zheng et al.
Recent research has underscored the rhythmic nature of visual perception, yet the connection between these perceptual rhythms, conscious awareness, and their underlying mechanisms remains largely elusive. This study employed a fine-grained temporal priming paradigm to investigate the oscillatory dynamics of face perception. In Experiment 1, we manipulated the awareness of prime stimuli to...