Action influences unconscious visual processing
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- Title
- Action influences unconscious visual processing
- Authors
- Suh, Jihyun; Abrams, Richard A.
- Date Issued
- 2018-08
- Publisher
- Psychonomic Society Inc.
- Abstract
- It has long been known that action is tightly linked to visual perception. In support of this connection, recent studies have shown that making a simple action towards a visual object can bias subsequent visual processing of features of the acted-on object. The present study examined whether conscious awareness of the acted-on object is necessary to yield this action effect. In two experiments, we found that making an action towards an invisible object resulted in greater priming in a subsequent visual search task. This shows that conscious awareness is not necessary to obtain the action-induced visual bias. More importantly, the result implies that action might amplify the sensory signal from the subliminally presented object, which is presumed to occur during early visual processing.
- URI
- https://oasis.postech.ac.kr/handle/2014.oak/107611
- DOI
- 10.3758/s13414-018-1509-8
- ISSN
- 1943-3921
- Article Type
- Article
- Citation
- Attention, Perception & Psychophysics, vol. 80, no. 6, page. 1599 - 1608, 2018-08
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