How something can be said about telling more than we can know: On choice blindness and introspection

Consciousness and Cognition

Volumn 15, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 673-692

  Johansson, Petter ^a   Hall, Lars ^a   Sikström, Sverker ^a   Tärning, Betty ^a   Lind, Andreas ^a  

^a LUND UNIVERSITY COGNITIVE SCIENCE   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Change blindness; Choice blindness; Confabulation; Introspection; Latent Semantic Analysis; Verbal report; Word frequency analysis

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BLINDNESS; CONFABULATION; CONSCIOUSNESS; DECISION MAKING; HUMAN; INTROSPECTION; MENTAL PERFORMANCE; SEMANTICS; TASK PERFORMANCE; WORD LIST RECALL;

AFFECT; CHOICE BEHAVIOR; CONSCIOUSNESS; HUMANS; SEMANTICS; VOCABULARY;

EID: 33845467071     PISSN: 10538100     EISSN: 10902376     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.concog.2006.09.004     Document Type: Article

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