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Unconscious semantic access: A case against a hyperpowerful unconscious

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 June 2003

Daniel Holender  and
Katia Duscherer
Daniel Holender
Affiliation:
Laboratoire de Psychologie Expérimentale, Université Libre de Bruxelles 50, Brussels, Belgium holender@ulb.ac.be
Katia Duscherer
Affiliation:
Laboratoire de Psychologie Expérimentale, Université René Descartes (Paris V), Boulogne-Billancourt, France kduscher@ulb.ac.be
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Abstract

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We analyze some of the recent evidence for unconscious semantic access stemming from tasks that, although based on a priming procedure, generate semantic congruity effects because of response competition, not semantic priming effects. We argue that such effects cannot occur without at least some glimpses of awareness about the identity and the meaning of a significant proportion of the primes.

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Brief Report
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Behavioral and Brain Sciences , Volume 25 , Issue 3 , June 2002 , pp. 340 - 341
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© 2002 Cambridge University Press