Do you have constant tactile experience of your feet in your shoes? Or is experience limited to what's in attention?

Journal of Consciousness Studies

Volumn 14, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 5-35

  Schwitzgebel, Eric ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Attention; Change blindness; Consciousness; Inattentional blindness; Introspection; Peripheral vision; Tactile experience; Visual experience

Indexed keywords

EID: 33847705295     PISSN: 13558250     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

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