Enhancing free choice masked priming via switch trials during repeated practice
The masked priming paradigm has been extensively used to investigate the indirect impacts of unconscious stimuli on conscious behaviors, and the congruency effect of priming on free choices has gained increasing attention. Free choices allow participants to voluntarily choose a response from multipl...
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| author | Qi Dai Lichang Yao Qiong Wu Yiyang Yu Wen Li Jiajia Yang Satoshi Takahashi Yoshimichi Ejima Jinglong Wu Jinglong Wu |
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| description | The masked priming paradigm has been extensively used to investigate the indirect impacts of unconscious stimuli on conscious behaviors, and the congruency effect of priming on free choices has gained increasing attention. Free choices allow participants to voluntarily choose a response from multiple options during each trial. While repeated practice is known to increase priming effects in subliminal visual tasks, whether practice increases the priming effect of free choices in the masked priming paradigm is unclear. And it is also not clear how the proportions of free choice and forced choice trials in one block will affect the free choice masked priming effect. The present study applied repeated practice in the masked priming paradigm and found that after training, the participants were more likely to be influenced by masked primes during free choice, but this training process did not alter the visibility of masked stimuli. In addition, this study revealed that when the proportions of free choice and forced choice trials were equal during the training stage, this enhanced effect by practice was the strongest. These results indicated that practice could enhance masked stimulus processing in free-choice, and that the learning effect may mainly be derived from the early selection and integrated processing of masked stimuli. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-36e39d0fdcc84d3e8ce4c80de4e3b4922022-12-22T04:02:53ZengFrontiers Media S.A.Frontiers in Psychology1664-10782022-09-011310.3389/fpsyg.2022.927234927234Enhancing free choice masked priming via switch trials during repeated practiceQi Dai0Lichang Yao1Qiong Wu2Yiyang Yu3Wen Li4Jiajia Yang5Satoshi Takahashi6Yoshimichi Ejima7Jinglong Wu8Jinglong Wu9Cognitive Neuroscience Laboratory, Graduate School of Interdisciplinary Science and Engineering in Health Systems, Okayama University, Okayama, JapanCognitive Neuroscience Laboratory, Graduate School of Interdisciplinary Science and Engineering in Health Systems, Okayama University, Okayama, JapanSchool of Education, Suzhou University of Science and Technology, Suzhou, ChinaCognitive Neuroscience Laboratory, Graduate School of Interdisciplinary Science and Engineering in Health Systems, Okayama University, Okayama, JapanSchool of Education, Suzhou University of Science and Technology, Suzhou, ChinaCognitive Neuroscience Laboratory, Graduate School of Interdisciplinary Science and Engineering in Health Systems, Okayama University, Okayama, JapanCognitive Neuroscience Laboratory, Graduate School of Interdisciplinary Science and Engineering in Health Systems, Okayama University, Okayama, JapanCognitive Neuroscience Laboratory, Graduate School of Interdisciplinary Science and Engineering in Health Systems, Okayama University, Okayama, JapanCognitive Neuroscience Laboratory, Graduate School of Interdisciplinary Science and Engineering in Health Systems, Okayama University, Okayama, JapanBeijing Institute of Technology, Beijing, ChinaThe masked priming paradigm has been extensively used to investigate the indirect impacts of unconscious stimuli on conscious behaviors, and the congruency effect of priming on free choices has gained increasing attention. Free choices allow participants to voluntarily choose a response from multiple options during each trial. While repeated practice is known to increase priming effects in subliminal visual tasks, whether practice increases the priming effect of free choices in the masked priming paradigm is unclear. And it is also not clear how the proportions of free choice and forced choice trials in one block will affect the free choice masked priming effect. The present study applied repeated practice in the masked priming paradigm and found that after training, the participants were more likely to be influenced by masked primes during free choice, but this training process did not alter the visibility of masked stimuli. In addition, this study revealed that when the proportions of free choice and forced choice trials were equal during the training stage, this enhanced effect by practice was the strongest. These results indicated that practice could enhance masked stimulus processing in free-choice, and that the learning effect may mainly be derived from the early selection and integrated processing of masked stimuli.https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpsyg.2022.927234/fullmasked priming effectfree choicesubliminal learning effectmasked stimulus processingintention |
| spellingShingle | Qi Dai Lichang Yao Qiong Wu Yiyang Yu Wen Li Jiajia Yang Satoshi Takahashi Yoshimichi Ejima Jinglong Wu Jinglong Wu Enhancing free choice masked priming via switch trials during repeated practice Frontiers in Psychology masked priming effect free choice subliminal learning effect masked stimulus processing intention |
| title | Enhancing free choice masked priming via switch trials during repeated practice |
| title_full | Enhancing free choice masked priming via switch trials during repeated practice |
| title_fullStr | Enhancing free choice masked priming via switch trials during repeated practice |
| title_full_unstemmed | Enhancing free choice masked priming via switch trials during repeated practice |
| title_short | Enhancing free choice masked priming via switch trials during repeated practice |
| title_sort | enhancing free choice masked priming via switch trials during repeated practice |
| topic | masked priming effect free choice subliminal learning effect masked stimulus processing intention |
| url | https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpsyg.2022.927234/full |
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