Reduced ERP amplitudes for animal stimuli in the absence of conscious awareness

Abstract

and easily extracted; (2) Animal stimuli deviate from non-animal stimuli around 150ms after stimulus onset (ERPs, Thorpe, Fize et al. 1996) Question: (1) Does this remarkable capability function in the absence of awareness? (2) Are there any differences between animal and non-animal in the suppressed condition? (Are animals special?) Introduction Paradigm: CFS (continuous flash suppression) break-through (experiment 1) and plain CFS paradigm (experiment 2,3, EEG) were used.