Collicular Vision Guides Nonconscious Behavior

Collicular Vision Guides Nonconscious Behavior

Following destruction or deafferentation of primary visual cortex (area V1, striate cortex), clinical blindness ensues, but residual visual functions may, nevertheless, persist without perceptual consciousness (a condition termed blindsight). The study of patients with such lesions thus offers a unique opportunity to investigate what visual capacities are mediated by the extrastriate pathways t...

Gratitude and Nonconscious Mimicry Behavior

Specific Nonconscious Emotions and Behavior 1 Running Head: SPECIFIC NONCONSCIOUS EMOTIONS AND BEHAVIOR Effects of Specific, Nonconscious Emotions on Self-Control Behavior

Current empirical evidence regarding nonconscious emotion is limited to positively versus negatively valenced affect. This paper demonstrates that specific, equally valenced emotions can be subliminally primed, remain inaccessible to conscious awareness, and still differentially affect behavior. In experiments 1 and 2 participants subliminally primed with a guilty emotion show higher self-contr...

Nonconscious Effects of Scent on Cognition and Behavior

Three studies explored whether odor can influence people’s cognition and behavior without their being consciously aware of the influence. In two studies, we tested and confirmed that when participants were unobtrusively exposed to citrus-scented all-purpose cleaner, the mental accessibility of the behavior concept of cleaning was enhanced, as was indicated by faster identification of cleaning-r...

Asymmetric influences of temporally vs. nasally presented masked visual information: evidence for collicular contributions to nonconscious priming effects.

It was tested whether the retino-collicular projection allows for the processing of nonconsciously registered visual information in healthy individuals. Masked primes were presented to different visual hemifields. Because the retino-collicular projection is stronger for temporal than for nasal hemifields, priming should be stronger by temporal than by nasal primes. This pattern was tested in tw...