The article focuses on the priming effect and reports on experimental studies comparing the degree of influence of previously consciously perceived and previously nonconsciously perceived information on conscious perception. The influence of different types of priming on the perception of an ambiguous figure (Rubin's figure) is investigated. The study indicates that conscious visual perception in the experimental situations that were created was a result of a nonconscious decision to consciously perceive. A comparative analysis of the results of the experiments shows that previously consciously perceived prime stimuli exert a stronger influence on the effects of the conscious perception of an ambiguous figure.

Priming Effect as a Result of the Nonconscious Activity of Consciousness

Recent experiments (eg M M Chun and M C Potter, 1995 Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance21 109 – 127; J E Raymond, K L Shapiro, and K M Arnell, 1992 Journal of Expe...

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