title: Reporting on the temporal properties of visual events masked with continuous flash suppression.
abstract: To what extent can individuals introspect on dynamic properties of masked stimuli? Specifically, can observers report about the order in which a visual stimulus occurs, relative to a behavior, even when that stimulus is dramatically reduced in visibility via masking? Masking stimuli using continuous flash suppression, we asked participants to report on whether the stimulus appeared before or after a button-press. Data collected across three studies are consistent with the notion that information on the temporal order of events is preserved even when the visibility of the event in question is impoverished. These data may suggest that dynamic properties of masked stimuli are a promising set of features for understanding questions regarding an observer's perceptual experience and limitations of high-level information processing.
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychology, Columbia University, 406 Schermerhorn Hall, 1190 Amsterdam Ave, New York, NY 10027, United States. Electronic address: tar2119@columbia.edu.
authors.forename: Travis
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Riddle
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychology, Columbia University, 406 Schermerhorn Hall, 1190 Amsterdam Ave, New York, NY 10027, United States.
authors.forename: Hakwan
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Lau
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychology, Columbia University, 406 Schermerhorn Hall, 1190 Amsterdam Ave, New York, NY 10027, United States.
authors.forename: Betsy
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Sparrow
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D001364:Awareness / Q000502:physiology*; D003463:Cues; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D010470:Perceptual Masking / Q000502:physiology*; D013998:Time Perception / Q000502:physiology*; D014796:Visual Perception / Q000502:physiology*; D055815:Young Adult
keywords: Awareness; Continuous flash suppression; Introspection; Temporal order; Unconscious perception