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12Did you see it? Robust individual differences in the speed with which meaningful visual stimuli break suppressionCognition 211 (C): 104638. 2021.Perceptual conscious experiences result from non-conscious processes that precede them. We document a new characteristic of the cognitive system: the speed with which visual meaningful stimuli are prioritized to consciousness over competing noise in visual masking paradigms. In ten experiments (N = 399) we find that an individual's non-conscious visual prioritization speed (NVPS) is ubiquitous across a wide variety of stimuli, and generalizes across visual masks, suppression tasks, and time. We …Read more
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15Getting to the heart of it: Multi-method exploration of nonconscious prioritization processesConsciousness and Cognition 85 103005. 2020.
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11Implicit motivation improves executive functions of older adultsConsciousness and Cognition 63 267-279. 2018.
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5Non-conscious goal pursuit and the effortful control of behaviorIn Ezequiel Morsella, John A. Bargh & Peter M. Gollwitzer (eds.), Oxford handbook of human action, Oxford University Press. 2008.
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43Consciousness might still be in business, but not in this businessConsciousness and Cognition 20 (2): 299-300. 2011.In a recent comment on our paper Implicit Working Memory Guterman argued that a possible interpretation of the results of one of our experiments is that “conscious awareness … enabled the participants to find ways to benefit from the predictability … while nullifying the cost.” Unfortunately, the data do not support this interpretation. Additionally, Guterman seems to have suggested that our results may be explained by non-working memory processes. We argue against this interpretation
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179The New Unconscious. Oxford Series in Social Cognition and Social Neuroscience (edited book)Oxford University Press. 2005.
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37Inherently Ambiguous: Facial Expressions of Emotions, in ContextEmotion Review 5 (1): 60-65. 2013.With a few yet increasing number of exceptions, the cognitive sciences enthusiastically endorsed the idea that there are basic facial expressions of emotions that are created by specific configurations of facial muscles. We review evidence that suggests an inherent role for context in emotion perception. Context does not merely change emotion perception at the edges; it leads to radical categorical changes. The reviewed findings suggest that configurations of facial muscles are inherently ambigu…Read more
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54Guess what? Implicit motivation boosts the influence of subliminal information on choiceConsciousness and Cognition 21 (3): 1232-1241. 2012.When is choice affected by subliminal messages? This question has fascinated scientists and lay people alike, but it is only recently that reliable empirical data began to emerge. In the current paper we bridge the literature on implicit motivation and that on subliminal persuasion. We suggest that motivation in general, and implicit motivation more specifically, plays an important role in subliminal persuasion: It sensitizes us to subliminal cues. To examine this hypothesis we developed a new p…Read more
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20Social task switching: On the automatic social engagement of executive functionsCognition 146 (C): 223-228. 2016.
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Nonconscious control and implicit working memoryIn Ran R. Hassin, James S. Uleman & John A. Bargh (eds.), The New Unconscious. Oxford Series in Social Cognition and Social Neuroscience, Oxford University Press. pp. 196-222. 2005.
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49Implicit working memoryConsciousness and Cognition 18 (3): 665-678. 2009.Working Memory plays a crucial role in many high-level cognitive processes . The prevalent view holds that active components of WM are predominantly intentional and conscious. This conception is oftentimes expressed explicitly, but it is best reflected in the nature of major WM tasks: All of them are blatantly explicit. We developed two new WM paradigms that allow for an examination of the role of conscious awareness in WM. Results from five studies show that WM can operate unintentionally and o…Read more
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