Unconscious perception: the need for a paradigm shift.
According to Snodgrass, Bernat, and Shevrin (2004), unconscious perception can be demonstrated convincingly only at the objective detection threshold, provided that the conditions of their objective detection/strategic model are met, whereas both the subjective threshold model of Cheesman and Merikle (1984, 1986) and the objective threshold/rapid decay model of Greenwald, Draine, and Abrams (1996) are inconclusive. We argue on theoretical, metatheoretical, and empirical grounds that all three dual-process models, which are based on both conscious and unconscious perception, should be rejected in favor of the single-process conscious perception model.
Holender
Daniel
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Laboratoire de Psychologie Expérimentale, Université Libre de Bruxelles, 50 avenue F. D. Roosevelt, CP 191, B-1050 Brussels, Belgium. holender@ulb.ac.be
Duscherer
Katia
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D006801:Humans; D010465:Perception; D010470:Perceptual Masking; D014473:Unconscious, Psychology