Unconscious Cues Bias First Saccades in a Free-saccade Task

Overview

Journal Conscious Cogn

Specialties Psychiatry
Psychology

Date 2014 Aug 11

PMID 25108793

Citations 6

Authors

Yu-Feng Huang

Edlyn Gui Fang Tan

Chun Siong Soon

Po-Jang Hsieh

Affiliations

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Abstract

Visual-spatial attention can be biased towards salient visual information without visual awareness. It is unclear, however, whether such bias can further influence free-choices such as saccades in a free viewing task. In our experiment, we presented visual cues below awareness threshold immediately before people made free saccades. Our results showed that masked cues could influence the direction and latency of the first free saccade, suggesting that salient visual information can unconsciously influence free actions.

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