TY  - JOUR
PY  - 2008//
TI  - No difference between conscious and nonconscious visuomotor control: evidence from perceptual learning in the masked prime task
JO  - Consciousness and cognition
A1  - Schlaghecken, Friederike
A1  - Blagrove, Elisabeth
A1  - Maylor, Elizabeth A.
SP  - 84
EP  - 93
VL  - 17
IS  - 1
N2  - 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>
LA  - en
SN  - 1053-8100
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.concog.2006.11.004
ID  - ref1
ER  -