Scanning the "Fringe" of consciousness: What is felt and what is not felt in intuitions about semantic coherence

Consciousness and Cognition

Volumn 18, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 608-618

  Topolinski, Sascha ^a   Strack, Fritz ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WÜRZBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Affect; Consciousness; Experiential status of fluency; Fringe; Intuition; Misattribution; Remote associates

Indexed keywords

AFFECT; ARTICLE; CONSCIOUSNESS; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INTUITION; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PERCEPTION; SEMANTIC MEMORY; SEMANTICS; TASK PERFORMANCE; VERBAL MEMORY; VISUAL DISCRIMINATION; WORD RECOGNITION;

AFFECT; AROUSAL; ASSOCIATION LEARNING; ATTENTION; AWARENESS; CONSCIOUSNESS; CUES; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTUITION; JUDGMENT; MALE; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; REACTION TIME; READING; SEMANTICS;

EID: 69249153059     PISSN: 10538100     EISSN: 10902376     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.concog.2008.06.002     Document Type: Article

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