Intuition in the context of object perception: Intuitive gestalt judgments rest on the unconscious activation of semantic representations

Cognition

Volumn 108, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 608-616

  Bolte, Annette ^a   Goschke, Thomas ^b  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF BRAUNSCHWEIG   (Germany)

^b DRESDEN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Intuition; Unconscious semantic activation

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; DECISION MAKING; DRAWING; EGO DEVELOPMENT; GESTALT THERAPY; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INTUITION; MEMORY; NORMAL HUMAN; PERCEPTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RELIABILITY; SEMANTICS;

DECISION MAKING; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; HUMANS; INTUITION; JUDGMENT; ORIENTATION; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PERCEPTUAL CLOSURE; REACTION TIME; SEMANTICS; UNCONSCIOUS (PSYCHOLOGY); VERBAL BEHAVIOR;

EID: 51249100862     PISSN: 00100277     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cognition.2008.05.001     Document Type: Article

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