“…During the 1950s and 1960s a number of studies on the question of degree of awareness and attention and stimulus organization were carried out at the New York University Research Center for Mental Health (e.g., Eagle, 1959;Eagle & Ortof, 1967;Eagle, Wolitzky, & Klein, 1966;Klein, Spence, Holt, & Gourevitch, 1958;Paul & Fisher, 1959;Pine 1960Pine , 1961Smith et al, 1959;Spence & Holland, 1962). Among the findings reported were the following: Compared to focal stimuli, incidental stimuli influenced subjects' subsequent imaginative stories in accord with the latter's symbolic meanings (Pine, 1960).…”