Commentary on: “Evidence of weak conscious experiences in the exclusion task”

Frontiers in Psychology

Gary D. Fisk¹ 

关键词: unconscious perception;    subliminal perception;    process dissociation procedure;    exclusion task;    exhaustiveness;   

DOI  :  10.3389/fpsyg.2015.00370

学科分类：心理学（综合）

来源: Frontiers

【 摘 要 】

Most studies of unconscious perception aim to demonstrate that the participants are unaware of the prime stimuli (e.g., a measurement of zero sensitivity on prime detection, discrimination, or identification) yet show evidence of perception on another variable (e.g., semantic priming). Dissociation studies of this kind are popular, but the approach has an inherently weak logic. The problem is the need to establish that the awareness measure is exhaustively sensitive to conscious perception (Reingold and Merikle, 1988). The exhaustiveness issue is critical. If exhaustiveness cannot be demonstrated, any findings suggesting unconscious perception can be plausibly attributed to a Type II statistical error (a failure to measure a real effect on the awareness measure) and are open to alternative interpretations.

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