Project Details
Projekt
Do you know why you kick where you do? An investigation into the simultaneous engagement of distinct modes of (un-)conscious processing in the laboratory and in a natural action task
Subject Area
General, Cognitive and Mathematical Psychology
Personality Psychology, Clinical and Medical Psychology, Methodology
Personality Psychology, Clinical and Medical Psychology, Methodology
Term
from 2014 to 2017
Project identifier
Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) - Project number 257694020
Dehaene, Changeaux, Naccache, Sackur, and Sergent (2006) proposed distinct modes of information processing for perception and decision-making based on a combination of stimulus strength and top-down attention. Three-stimulus strength thresholds follow from this taxonomy, one of which is the objective threshold typically described by the Weber-FechnerLaw. The current project aims to test the appropriateness of Dehaene et al.s taxonomy for representative and natural task environments. In particular, it aims to understand the simultaneous contributions of the modes of processing on a soccer penalty takers perception and decision-making. To this end, the project not only aims to uncover the objective threshold between subliminal and no processing, but also the subjective threshold between conscious and subliminal processing, and the threshold between preconscious and no processing. In doing so, the current project will also examine the influence of situational factors on the stimulus thresholds, such as task requirments, different instructions, and the level of fatique and anxiety. Finally, the taxonomy will be used to examine the phenomena of pseudo-neglect and perceptual accentuation that have recently been observed in natural task situations. This will uncover how the distinct modes of conscious processing interact to control perception and decision-making.
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