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Demonstrations of subconscious processing with the binary exclusion task

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 January 2014

Navindra Persaud  and
Peter McLeod
Navindra Persaud
Affiliation:
Faculty of Medicine, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON M5B 1X2, Canada. nav.persaud@utoronto.ca
Peter McLeod
Affiliation:
Department of Experimental Psychology, University of Oxford, Queen's College, Oxford OX1 4AW, United Kingdom. peter.mcleod@queens.ox.ac.uk
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Abstract

The binary exclusion task involves “subtle priming effects” and a measure of awareness that is reliable, relevant, immediate, and sensitive. This task, which meets the criteria outlined in the target article, has been used to demonstrate subconscious processing.

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Behavioral and Brain Sciences , Volume 37 , Issue 1 , February 2014 , pp. 37
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2014 

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