TY  - JOUR
PY  - 2012//
TI  - At the mercy of prior entry: Prior entry induced by invisible primes is not susceptible to current intentions
JO  - Acta psychologica
A1  - Weiß, Katharina
A1  - Scharlau, Ingrid
SP  - 54
EP  - 64
VL  - 139
IS  - 1
N2  - If one of two events is attended to, it will be perceived earlier than a simultaneously occurring unattended event. For 150 years, this effect has been ascribed to the facilitating influence of attention, also known as prior entry. Yet, the attentional origin of prior-entry effects(1) has been repeatedly doubted. One criticism is that prior-entry effects might be due to biased decision processes that would mimic a temporal advantage for attended stimuli. Although most obvious biases have already been excluded experimentally (e.g. judgment criteria, response compatibility) and prior-entry effects have shown to persist (Shore, Spence, & Klein, 2001), many other biases are conceivable, which makes it difficult to put the debate to an end. Thus, we approach this problem the other way around by asking whether prior-entry effects can be biased voluntarily. Observers were informed about prior entry and instructed to reduce it as far as possible. For this aim they received continuous feedback about the correctness of their temporal judgments. If elicited by invisible primes the effect could not be reduced at all and only by 12ms if elicited by visible cues. This challenges decision biases as primary source of prior-entry effects - at least if attention is oriented exogenously.<p />  <p>Language: en</p>
LA  - en
SN  - 0001-6918
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.actpsy.2011.10.007
ID  - ref1
ER  -