Yung-Hsuan Tien

Role of consciousness in temporal integration of semantic information.

Cognitive, Affective, & Behavioral Neuroscience October 2017 Yung-Hao Yang, Yung-Hsuan Tien, Pei-Ling Yang et al.

Previous studies found that word meaning can be processed unconsciously. Yet it remains unknown whether temporally segregated words can be integrated into a holistic meaningful phrase without consciousness. The first four experiments were designed to examine this by sequentially presenting the first three words of Chinese four-word idioms as prime to one eye and dynamic Mondrians to the other...