Recent research has established several empirical results that are widely agreed to merit description in terms of unconscious cognition. These findings come from experiments that use indirect tests for immediate or long-term residues of barely perceptible, perceptible-but-unattended, or attended-but-forgotten events. Importantly, these wellestablished phenomena-insofar as they occur without initially involving focal attention-are limited to relatively minor cognitive feats. Unconscious cognition is now solidly established in empirical research, but it appears to be intellectually much simpler than the sophisticated agency portrayed in psychoanalytic theory. The strengthened position of unconscious cognitive phenomena can be related to their jit with the developing neural network (connectionist) theoretical framework in psychology. A familiar theme in academic psychology has been that psychoanalytic conceptions of unconscious cognition lack empirical confirmation. ' This skeptical view-which partly explains the omission of the topic of unconscious cognition from many textbooks, and even the omission of the word unconscious from the vocabularies of many psychologists-was prevalent in the 1950s, when concerted empirical research (the New Look, starting with Bruner & Postman, 1947) ultimately subsided with much achieved, but without any convincing evidence for psychoanalytic-inspired conceptions of unconscious influences on per~eption.~ Erdelyi (1974) initiated a second New Look, making a strong case for theoretical connections between cognitive psychology and psychoanalytic conceptions of unconscious cognition. Although New Look 2's rapprochement of psychoanalytic and cognitive theory remains an active

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Is there an effect of subliminal messages in music on choice behavior?