Subliminal Perception and Subception
- 1 April 1956
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Taylor & Francis in The Journal of Psychology
- Vol. 41 (2) , 437-458
- https://doi.org/10.1080/00223980.1956.9713017
Abstract
The problem was to investigate possible relationship between veridical information obtained from subliminal stimuli and GSR syllable discrimination, using 3 subliminal levels of illumination. Would recognition at higher levels be above chance? 1. There was definite relationship; 2. When no information is gotten from the presentation, the subception effect fails to reach significance; 3. There is no evidence of autonomic discrimination without awareness; rather GSR seems to be mediated by the partial recognition that the subject gets from the presentation; 4. The data support the hypothesis that there is only veridical perception which involves various stages of clarity. 33 references.This publication has 30 references indexed in Scilit:
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