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Positive Effects of Subliminal Stimulation on Memory

1992; SAGE Publishing; Volume: 74; Issue: 3 Linguagem: Inglês

10.2466/pms.1992.74.3.956

1558-688X

Evagelica Chakalis, G. Lowe,

Occupational Therapy Practice and Research

To assess the effect of subliminally embedded auditory material on short-term recall, 60 volunteer subjects undertook a face-name-occupation memory test before and after a 15-min. intervention. They were randomly assigned into three groups (a control group and two experimental groups) and allocated to one of the following conditions: (1) no sound, (2) supraliminal presentation of relaxing music, and (3) subliminal presentation of memory-improvement affirmations embedded in relaxing music. After intervention, only the subliminal group significantly improved their performance on recall of names.