Loads of unconscious processing: The role of perceptual load in processing unattended stimuli during inattentional blindness

摘要

Schematic of the experimental task in Experiment . Participants categorized the peripheral number as smaller or greater than 5 as quickly as possible. Every trial consisted of two phases: waiting phase and target phase. In the target phase, the target number appeared at one of the eight positions of the hashtags. In half of the trials ( low-load condition) the other hashtags stayed the same while in the other half of the trials ( high-load conditions) the other hashtags change to letters. In the irrelevant central array half of the characters were numbers matching the category of the peripheral, to-be-judged numeral ( congruent condition) or pertaining to the opposite category ( incongruent condition)