Partial awareness distinguishes between measuring conscious perception and conscious content: Reply to Dienes and Seth

Consciousness and Cognition

Volumn 19, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 1081-1083

  Timmermans, Bert ^a,c   Sandberg, Kristian ^b   Cleeremans, Axel ^a   Overgaard, Morten ^b  

^a UNIVERSITÉ LIBRE DE BRUXELLES   (Belgium)

^b AARHUS UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

^c UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL OF COLOGNE   (Germany)

Author keywords

Confidence ratings; Consciousness; Methodology; Partial awareness; Perceptual Awareness Scale; Post decision wagering; Subliminal perception

Indexed keywords

AWARENESS; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; CONSCIOUSNESS; DECISION MAKING; METHODOLOGY; NOTE; PERCEPTION; PERCEPTIVE DISCRIMINATION;

EID: 78149501068     PISSN: 10538100     EISSN: 10902376     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.concog.2010.05.006     Document Type: Note

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