subliminal stimulus


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sub·thresh·old stim·u·lus

a stimulus too weak to evoke a response.
Synonym(s): inadequate stimulus, subliminal stimulus

subliminal stimulus

A stimulus that is weaker than a threshold stimulus.
See also: stimulus
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In a study examining the cognitive rather than the affective consequences of a subliminal stimulus, Johnson and Lubke (1975) asked participants to "solve" a conceptual problem that had been presented to them earlier by using ESP to pick from among several envelopes the one containing the solution.
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Our aim was to test whether the target presented only as a subliminal stimulus to the agent would be sufficient for sending to the percipient, who would be in the ganzfeld.
A Ganzfeld experiment with "subliminal sending."

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