Figure 1.

Simplified sketch of the experiment [1]. The left illustration portrays the stream sequence used to cause the conscious-state perception, where the four lettered word is presented preceded and succeeded by blank screens. The right illustration portray the experiment where the word is sandwiched between distractors, or masks, which inhibits the conscious perception of the word and causes the subliminal-state activation. For each of these two experiments a control sequence is presented in which blank images are displayed instead of words.