TY - JOUR AB - Four experiments investigated the influence of a metacontrast-masked prime on temporal order judgments. The main results were (1) that a masked prime reduced the latency of the mask's conscious perception (perceptual latency priming), (2) that this effect was independent of whether the prime suffered strong or weak masking, (3) that it was unaffected by the degree of visual similarity between the prime and the mask, and that (4) there was no difference between congruent and incongruent primes. Finding (1) suggests that location cueing affects not only response times but also the latency of conscious perception. (2) The finding that priming was unaffected by the prime's detectability argues against a response bias interpretation of this effect. (3) Since visual similarity had no effect on the prime's efficiency, it is unlikely that sensory priming was involved. (4) The lack of a divergence between the effects of congruent and incongruent primes implies a functional difference between t AU - Scharlau, Ingrid AU - Neumann, Odmar ID - 6078 IS - 3 JF - Psychological Research KW - perceptual latency priming KW - temporal order judgments KW - masked stimuli KW - unmasked stimuli KW - attentional interpretation KW - response times KW - location cueing KW - visual perception KW - Adult KW - Attention KW - Female KW - Humans KW - Male KW - Models KW - Psychological KW - Perceptual Masking KW - Psychometrics KW - Reaction Time KW - Task Performance and Analysis KW - Time Perception KW - Masking KW - Reaction Time KW - Response Latency KW - Stimulus Parameters KW - Visual Contrast KW - Attention KW - Cues KW - Priming KW - Temporal Frequency KW - Temporal Order (Judgment) SN - 0340-0727 TI - Perceptual latency priming by masked and unmasked stimuli: Evidence for an attentional interpretation. VL - 67 ER -