The feeling of fluent perception: A single experience from multiple asynchronous sources

Consciousness and Cognition

Volumn 17, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 171-184

  Wurtz, Pascal ^a   Reber, Rolf ^b   Zimmermann, Thomas D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BERGEN   (Norway)

Author keywords

Consciousness; Contrast; Detection; Discrimination; Perceptual fluency; Symmetry

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; PERCEPTION; PERCEPTIVE DISCRIMINATION; STIMULUS; VISION;

CONSCIOUSNESS; CONTRAST SENSITIVITY; DISCRIMINATION (PSYCHOLOGY); FORM PERCEPTION; HUMANS; REACTION TIME; READING; RECOGNITION (PSYCHOLOGY); VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 40749092488     PISSN: 10538100     EISSN: 10902376     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.concog.2007.07.001     Document Type: Article

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