PhD student at Hebrew University. Consciousness & attention, speech perception, M/EEG, stats & data enthusiast. Unsure at which order.
Gal Chen
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With @deouell.bsky.social and Ran Hassin. Read more in the open-access version of the paper:
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
Negative words are detected *less* often when you focus on another task, regardless of task difficulty, the specific word set, or potentially confounding features. The decision of the system to disengage from a primary (visual, in our case) task might not conform to our conscious intuition.
We found that, while low-level/phonetic features, and pronunciation intelligibility play a large role in determining awareness, word valence plays a role too - suggesting semantic information is prioritized before conscious awareness. And not in the direction you'd think!
