González-García Carlos, Tudela Pío, Ruz María
Department of Experimental Psychology; Mind, Brain and Behavior Research Center, University of Granada, Granada, Spain.
Conscious Cogn. 2015 Dec;37:44-56. doi: 10.1016/j.concog.2015.08.001. Epub 2015 Aug 13.
Recent studies highlight the influence of non-conscious information on task-set selection. However, it has not yet been tested whether this influence depends on conscious settings, as some theoretical models propose. In a series of three experiments, we explored whether non-conscious abstract cues could bias choices between a semantic and a perceptual task. In Experiment 1, we observed a non-conscious influence on task-set selection even when perceptual priming and cue-target compound confounds did not apply. Experiments 2 and 3 showed that, under restrictive conditions of visibility, cues only biased task selection when the conscious task-setting mindset led participants to search for information during the time period of the cue. However, this conscious strategy did not modulate the effect found when a subjective measure of consciousness was used. Altogether, our results show that the configuration of the conscious mindset determines the potential bias of non-conscious information on task-set selection.
最近的研究突出了非意识信息对任务集选择的影响。然而，正如一些理论模型所提出的，这种影响是否依赖于意识设定尚未得到检验。在一系列三个实验中，我们探究了非意识抽象线索是否会使语义任务和知觉任务之间的选择产生偏差。在实验1中，即使不存在知觉启动和线索 - 目标复合混淆的情况，我们也观察到了非意识对任务集选择的影响。实验2和实验3表明，在能见度受限的条件下，只有当有意识的任务设定思维模式引导参与者在线索呈现期间搜索信息时，线索才会使任务选择产生偏差。然而，当使用意识的主观测量方法时，这种有意识的策略并未调节所发现的效应。总体而言，我们的结果表明，有意识思维模式的配置决定了非意识信息对任务集选择的潜在偏差。
