Eckstein, D.; Koenig, T.; Wyss, M.; Perrig, Walter J. (2012). Monitoring the Time Course of Perception without Awareness: A Comparison of Mirror Masked Words and Nonwords. Kognitive Neurophysiologie des Menschen - Human Cognitive Neurophysiology, 5(1), pp. 1-26. Wolfgang Skrandies
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Mirror masked words are embedded into a context that makes them appear as senseless patterns or as strings of unfamiliar letters. Thus, mirror masked words can be shown for several hundreds of milliseconds without being recognised as words. We sought to further investigate effects of nonsconscious reading by monitoring event-related brain potentials (ERPs) while participants observed mirror masked letter strings. ERPs were recorded while participants observed mirror masked words and nonwords. Data of 15 participants was segmented into periods of quasi-stable field topography (microstates). Microstates for masked words and nonwords were compared using randomization tests, statistical parametric scalp maps and Low
Resolution Electromagnetic Tomography (LORETA). ERPs to masked words and nonwords showed significant topographic differences between 136 and 256 ms, indicating that stimuli were nonconsciously discriminated. A LORETA model localised sources of activation discriminating between masked words and nonwords in left operculum, the right superior parietal lobe and right superior temporal gyrus indicating higher current density for nonwords than for words in these areas.
ERPs of mirror masked stimuli can indicate unconscious discrimination even in cases where behavioural priming is unreliable. This approach might be useful for investigating differences in early, nonconscious stages of word perception.
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Journal Article (Original Article) |
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Division/Institute: |
07 Faculty of Human Sciences > Institute of Psychology > Psychological and Behavioral Health 04 Faculty of Medicine > University Psychiatric Services > University Hospital of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy > Psychiatric Neurophysiology [discontinued] |
UniBE Contributor: |
Eckstein, Doris, König, Thomas, Perrig, Walter |
Subjects: |
100 Philosophy > 150 Psychology 600 Technology > 610 Medicine & health 500 Science > 570 Life sciences; biology |
ISSN: |
1867-576X |
Series: |
Kognitive Neurophysiologie des Menschen |
Publisher: |
Wolfgang Skrandies |
Language: |
English |
Submitter: |
Thomas König |
Date Deposited: |
05 Feb 2014 13:32 |
Last Modified: |
28 May 2023 14:19 |
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Uncontrolled Keywords: |
Reading, Language, Subliminal perception, ERPs, LORETA |
BORIS DOI: |
10.7892/boris.39695 |
URI: |
https://boris.unibe.ch/id/eprint/39695 |
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