Effects of thought suppression on visual perception

Diplôme Master Effects of thought suppression on visual perception eng 2015 author Pieroni Ilde 765170 director Schwartz Sophie 0000-0001-7718-4053 35633 Thought suppression has paradoxical effects. Previous research has shown that this mental control strategy may increase the accessibility of the suppressed thoughts. This intriguing effect is usually explained by the need to closely monitor the target thought in order to efficiently suppress its occurrence in one's mind. The aim of the present study was to examine whether thought suppression can also modulate the detection and representation of visual stimuli. We used the technique of continuous flash suppression (CFS), which allows to investigate the processing of visual information in the absence of visual awareness. Specifically, we hypothesized that when participants are instructed to suppress thoughts about a “target picture”, the target-picture presented to one eye may have a paradoxical advantage in perception and thus break suppression faster than non-target stimuli against a dynamic noise pattern presented to the other eye... Dewey 150 Dewey 616.8 Maîtrise universitaire interdisciplinaire en neurosciences 16 Centre interfacultaire de neurosciences 0D9 108 Section de psychologie 71 false b1d65857-08d3-43a2-b045-d52e07673c49 Master thesis Private Mémoire Ilde Pieroni.pdf 634184 application/pdf closedAccess Centres et instituts / Centre interfacultaire de neurosciences Faculté de psychologie et des sciences de l'éducation / Section de psychologie

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