Patent Document ID: 20110027764
Application ID: 11845179
Patent Flag: 0

Claim One:
1. An un-blinded behavioral method for detecting a specific cognitive-emotional mental state in a subject, the method comprising the steps of: providing at least two different Internal Personalized Explorer (IPE) stimuli; exposing the subject to a visual display of an individual IPE stimulus for a subliminal time duration, the visual display being an output device of a computer system; masking the visual display with a mask for a brief non-subliminal time duration; following the masking step with the subject performing a meaningful target-specific cognitive task and a related behavior; presenting on the visual display a randomly varied response period having at least a response period duration sufficient to complete the behavior, and recording a reaction time of the behavior via an input device of the computer system in a database on the computer system; repeating the exposing step a sufficient number of times with different individual IPEs to generate a database sufficient to determine a mean reaction time of the subject relative to each of the individual IPEs; and interpreting the reaction time data of the data set, to detect the relative intensity of the specific cognitive-emotional mental state in the subject relative to the individual IPEs.