@article{ref1,
title="No difference between conscious and nonconscious visuomotor control: evidence from perceptual learning in the masked prime task",
journal="Consciousness and cognition",
year="2008",
author="Schlaghecken, Friederike and Blagrove, Elisabeth and Maylor, Elizabeth A.",
volume="17",
number="1",
pages="84-93",
abstract="Negative compatibility effects (NCEs) in the masked-prime paradigm are usually obtained when primes are masked effectively. With ineffective masks-and primes above the perceptual threshold-positive compatibility effects (PCEs) occur. We investigated whether this pattern reflects a causal relationship between conscious awareness and low-level motor control, or whether it reflects the fact that both are affected in the same way by changes in physical stimulus attributes. In a 5-session perceptual learning task, participants learned to consciously identify masked primes. However, they showed unaltered NCEs that were not different from those produced by participants in a control group without equivalent perceptual learning. A control experiment demonstrated that no NCEs occur when prime identification is made possible by ineffective masking. The results suggest that perceptual awareness and low-level motor control are affected by the same factors, but are fundamentally independent of each other.<p /><p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="1053-8100",
doi="10.1016/j.concog.2006.11.004",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.concog.2006.11.004"
}