Figure 1.

Subliminal and supraliminal trials. Left side, subliminal word pairs were presented for 17 ms between pattern masks. Participants were not informed of subliminal stimuli; they performed an attention task during the subliminal stimulation sequence. There was a break of 5 min between encoding and test. Right side, at test, pairs of new words were presented supraliminal in three conditions for participants to decide whether words in a pair fit together semantically. Words in analogs were new but retained semantic relations from subliminal encoding word pairs (encoding: table–car; test: desk–bus). Semantic relations were broken in Broken Analogs. Control pairs consisted of words that were neither semantically close to encoding words nor retained semantic relations. Successive stimuli are depicted from bottom left to top right.