Abstract

S. BORINE, Monica. Conscience, emotion and cognition: the effect of priming affective subliminal in attention tasks.. Ciênc. cogn. [online]. 2007, vol.11, pp. 67-79. ISSN 1806-5821.

Abstract This thesis evaluated two lines of research, developed in the last few decades: the study of subliminal stimulation "priming", and the triggering of emotional reactions by controlled stimuli. The present study aims at combining these lines for the study the consciousness with the affective priming: the effect of stimuli with aversive contents, subliminal and supraliminal, on cognition, by analysis of performance during attention task. Three experimental tasks were performed by 35 individuals in neuron psychology laboratory: a baseline task where detection of simple visual target was tested, and the same task with interposed distracting aversive stimuli, both in supraliminal and subliminal presentation (500 ms or 50 ms duration), in random blocks among the subjects. Detection and response criterion rates were calculated and used for the statistical comparison between conditions (repeated measures). The results show a significant difference in the detection significant change of "criterion", indicating change of strategy in the presence of aversive affective images. The conclusion the subliminal task made a destructive effect in supraliminal task, damage false alarms, have a "protector" effect. The results are argued in the context of the relevance of emotional influences on the behavior.

Keywords : consciousness; awareness; subliminal; affective priming; attention; emotion..

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