Do supraliminal and subliminal priming capture different facets of words’ semantic representations? We used metaphorical priming between space and time as a test bed for this question, and find results suggesting that unconscious word processing is mostly limited to linguistically–encoded information, while consciousness may be needed to fully activate semantic representations.

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