Studies found that subliminal primes can be associated with specific tasks to facilitate task performance, and such learning is highly adaptive and generalizable. Meanwhile, conditioning studies suggest that aversive/reward learning and generalization actually occur at the semantic level. The current study shows that prime–task associations can also be generalized to novel word/neighbour primes from the same semantic category, and this occurs without contingency awareness. Previous studies have counterintuitively suggested that both the learning of task priming and the semantic priming of word neighbours depend on the lack of visibility. Here, we show that semantic generalization indeed depends on reduced visibility, but cannot occur subliminally. The current study shows for the first time that semantic learning and generalization can occur without any emotional or motivational factors, and that semantic priming can occur for arbitrary-linked stimuli in a context completely devoid of semantics.

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无意识准备：主要可见性对任务启动语义概括的影响

研究发现，潜意识素数可以与特定任务相关联，以促进任务执行，并且这种学习具有高度的适应性和可推广性。同时，条件反射研究表明厌恶/奖励学习和泛化实际上发生在语义层面。当前的研究表明，素数-任务关联也可以推广到来自同一语义类别的新词/邻居素数，并且这种情况在没有偶然性意识的情况下发生。先前的研究反直觉地表明，任务启动的学习和单词邻居的语义启动都取决于缺乏可见性。在这里，我们表明语义泛化确实取决于降低的可见性，但不能在潜意识中发生。