Increasing power for detecting awareness: a new approach to test group level objective performance
Shaked Lublinsky, Itay Yaron, William Marshall, Liad Mudrik · 2026
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Shaked Lublinsky, Itay Yaron, William Marshall, and Liad Mudrik propose in 2026 sharper statistical tests for whether people truly saw nothing in unconscious-processing experiments. Proving a stimulus stayed unconscious demands strong proof of unawareness. Weak awareness checks have let conscious seeing contaminate many claims in the field.
Two group-level tests, one classic and one Bayesian, were tailored for objective awareness tasks. Computer simulations pitted them against five common tests across varied scenarios, and they won clearly on power. Reanalysis of 79 published effects from fifteen papers found cases where the new tests caught awareness others missed. Adopting stronger checks should clean up which unconscious effects the field can trust.
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| CREATOR | Shaked Lublinsky, Itay Yaron, William Marshall, Liad Mudrik |
|---|---|
| YEAR | 2026 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 52 KB |
| LICENSE | https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |