Psychonomic Bulletin & Review
August 1, 2026
Shanglin Yang, Jeffrey N. Rouder
In this study, we replicate a striking dissociation of consciousness from action. The dissociation comes from Vorberg et al. (2003) who explored whether metacontrast-masked stimuli still prime subsequent actions. In metacontrast masking, stimuli are rendered less visible by increasing the time between it and a subsequent mask (ISI). Vorberg et al. demonstrated that as stimuli were less visible...
Psychonomic Bulletin & Review
March 12, 2026
Tian Yuan, Haoyue Ji, Baoyi Zhu et al.
The perception of eye gaze plays a pivotal role in human social interactions, which even occurs outside conscious awareness. However, whether such nonconscious gaze perception is susceptible to top-down cognitive processes, like working memory (WM), remains unclear. Using a delayed match-to-sample paradigm, we investigated the WM modulation on the perception of eye gaze rendered invisible...
Psychonomic Bulletin & Review
October 1, 2024
Yingbing Sun, Ruiyu Zhu, Bernhard Hommel et al.
3 citations
Sense of ownership and agency are two important aspects of the minimal self, but how self-perception is affected by social conditions remains unclear. Here, we studied how social inclusion or exclusion of participants in the course of a virtual Cyberball game would affect explicit judgments and implicit measures of ownership and agency (proprioceptive drift, skin conductance responses, and...
Psychonomic Bulletin & Review
December 1, 2020
Ali Pournaghdali, Bennett L Schwartz
Studies utilizing continuous flash suppression (CFS) provide valuable information regarding conscious and nonconscious perception. There are, however, crucial unanswered questions regarding the mechanisms of suppression and the level of visual processing in the absence of consciousness with CFS. Research suggests that the answers to these questions depend on the experimental configuration and...
Psychonomic Bulletin & Review
June 9, 2016
S. Goldinger, Megan H. Papesh, Anthony S. Barnhart et al.
324 citations
In recent years, there has been rapidly growing interest in embodied cognition, a multifaceted theoretical proposition that (1) cognitive processes are influenced by the body, (2) cognition exists in the service of action, (3) cognition is situated in the environment, and (4) cognition may occur without internal representations. Many proponents view embodied cognition as the next great paradigm...
Psychonomic Bulletin & Review
December 1, 2015
Donald D Hoffman, Manish Singh, Chetan Prakash
We propose that selection favors nonveridical perceptions that are tuned to fitness. Current textbooks assert, to the contrary, that perception is useful because, in the normal case, it is veridical. Intuition, both lay and expert, clearly sides with the textbooks. We thus expected that some commentators would reject our proposal and provide counterarguments that could stimulate a productive...