Cristian Buc Calderon

Setting the stage subliminally: unconscious context effects.

Consciousness and Cognition October 1, 2011 Filip Van Opstal, Cristian Buc Calderon, Wim Gevers et al.

An important approach to understand how the brain gives rise to consciousness is to probe the depth of unconscious processing, thus to define the key features that cause conscious awareness. Here, we investigate the possibility for subliminal stimuli to shape the context for unconscious processing. Context effects have generally been assumed to require consciousness. In the present experiment,...