Catarina Amado

Number processing outside awareness? Systematically testing sensitivities of direct and indirect measures of consciousness.

Attention, Perception & Psychophysics August 2021 Iris A Zerweck, Chung-Shan Kao, Sascha Meyen et al.

In priming research, it is often argued that humans can discriminate stimuli outside consciousness. For example, the semantic meaning of numbers can be processed even when the numbers are so strongly masked that participants are not aware of them. These claims are typically based on a certain pattern of results: Direct measures indicate no conscious awareness of the masked stimuli, while...