Subliminals 101
Taken from:
www.technologynetworks.com/neuroscience/articles/h…
"They performed a follow-up experiment to determine if natural images, which were previously presented subliminally, would later improve neural processing during supraliminal presentation. They found that animals performed significantly better on trials with exposed images. Additionally, this improvement for exposed stimuli tracked across orientations as well. For low-orientation-change trials, which are most difficult for the animal to get correct, performance was better for exposed compared to unexposed images. This suggests that single neuron and network-level changes in stimulus encoding are strong enough to alter perception. They found that behavioral performance was highly correlated with increased coincident spikes, suggesting that when neurons communicate better among themselves, improved behavior follows”