Raising awareness about measurement error in research on unconscious mental processes

MA Vadillo, S Malejka, DYH Lee, Z Dienes… - Psychonomic Bulletin & …, 2022 - Springer
Experimental psychologists often neglect the poor psychometric properties of the dependent
measures collected in their studies. In particular, a low reliability of measures can have …

No evidence for contextual cueing beyond explicit recognition

S Meyen, MA Vadillo, U von Luxburg… - Psychonomic Bulletin & …, 2024 - Springer
Many studies claim that visual regularities can be learned unconsciously and without explicit
awareness. For example in the contextual cueing paradigm, studies often make claims using …

[HTML][HTML] The challenge of inferring unconscious mental processes

DR Shanks, S Malejka… - Experimental Psychology, 2021 - econtent.hogrefe.com
Studies of unconscious mental processes often compare a performance measure (eg, some
assessment of perception or memory) with a measure of awareness (eg, a verbal report or …

On the reliability of value-modulated attentional capture: An online replication and multiverse analysis

F Garre-Frutos, MA Vadillo, F González… - Behavior Research …, 2024 - Springer
Stimuli predicting rewards are more likely to capture attention, even when they are not
relevant to our current goals. Individual differences in value-modulated attentional capture …

An integrative review of dual-and single-process accounts of evaluative conditioning

M Hütter - Nature Reviews Psychology, 2022 - nature.com
The co-occurrence of a person, object or concept and a valent stimulus can change how a
person evaluates the person, object or concept. Such effects of stimulus pairings on attitudes …

Obtaining evidence for no effect

Z Dienes - Collabra: Psychology, 2021 - online.ucpress.edu
Obtaining evidence that something does not exist requires knowing how big it would be
were it to exist. Testing a theory that predicts an effect thus entails specifying the range of …

Unconscious integration: Current evidence for integrative processing under subliminal conditions

R Yu - British Journal of Psychology, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Integrative processing is traditionally believed to be dependent on consciousness. While
earlier studies within the last decade reported many types of integration under subliminal …

[HTML][HTML] Conscious and unconscious memory and eye movements in context-guided visual search: A computational and experimental reassessment of Ramey …

DYH Lee, DR Shanks - Cognition, 2023 - Elsevier
Are eye movements unconsciously guided towards target locations in familiar scenes? In a
recent eyetracking study, Ramey, Yonelinas, and Henderson (2019) measured eye …

[HTML][HTML] The pervasive problem of post hoc data selection in studies on unconscious processing

M Rothkirch, DR Shanks… - Experimental …, 2022 - econtent.hogrefe.com
Studies on unconscious mental processes typically require that participants are unaware of
some information (eg, a visual stimulus). An important methodological question in this field …

Learning to suppress a distractor may not be unconscious

F Vicente-Conesa, T Giménez-Fernández… - Attention, Perception, & …, 2023 - Springer
The additional singleton task has become a popular paradigm to explore visual statistical
learning and selective attention. In this task, participants are instructed to find a different …