Strategic behavior without awareness? Effects of implicit learning in the Eriksen flanker paradigm.
This experiment investigated whether subjects' selection and use of strategies in detecting a target letter in a flanker task requires intention. Subjects' expectancies for compatible and incompatible trials (trials on which the response to the flanker stimulus was consistent or inconsistent with th...
| Published in: | Memory & Cognition Vol. 38; no. 2; pp. 197 - 206 |
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Springer Science & Business Media B.V.
March 2010
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