Is awareness necessary for true inference?

Memory and Cognition

Volumn 36, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 1079-1086

  Leo, Peter D ^a   Greene, Anthony J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MILWAUKEE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ARTICLE; AWARENESS; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LEARNING; MALE; MEMORY; NORMAL HUMAN; PERCEPTIVE DISCRIMINATION; STIMULUS;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ASSOCIATION LEARNING; AWARENESS; CHOICE BEHAVIOR; COLOR PERCEPTION; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; FACE; FEEDBACK, PSYCHOLOGICAL; FEMALE; FIELD DEPENDENCE-INDEPENDENCE; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HUMANS; JUDGMENT; KNOWLEDGE OF RESULTS (PSYCHOLOGY); MALE; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; REACTION TIME;

EID: 54949135198     PISSN: 0090502X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3758/MC.36.6.1079     Document Type: Article

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