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  • Neuroscience
  • Psychological Research Methods

Background:

  • Recent criticisms and replication failures question the extent of unconscious perception and cognition.
  • Failures to detect unconscious processing effects at the population level may stem from absent individual effects or opposing effects canceling out.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To investigate whether individual differences in effect signs mask true unconscious processing effects.
  • To arbitrate between the absence of individual effects and the averaging out of opposing effects in unconscious processing research.

Main Methods:

  • Analysis of previously collected data (26 effects, 470 participants) where unconscious processing effects were not found.
  • Application of five frequentist and Bayesian statistical tests robust to individual differences in effect direction.
  • Examination of 136 non-significant effects from other domains using novel non-parametric tests.

Main Results:

  • No reliable evidence was found for unconscious effects being masked by individual differences in the initial dataset.
  • Two novel tests revealed hidden effects in other domains, potentially due to opposing individual results or design factors.
  • Multiple analysis approaches indicate restricted unconscious processing effects across participants and within individuals.

Conclusions:

  • The findings provide strong evidence for the limited scope of unconscious processing.
  • Consciousness may be necessary for tested processes, as effects are not reliably masked by individual differences.
  • Recommendations for testing non-directional effects and analysis code are provided to improve research practices.