Deduction without awareness

Acta Psychologica

Volumn 139, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 244-253

  Reverberi, Carlo ^a,b   Pischedda, Doris ^a   Burigo, Michele ^c   Cherubini, Paolo ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MILANO BICOCCA   (Italy)

^b CHARITÉ UNIVERSITÄTSMEDIZIN BERLIN   (Germany)

^c Language and Cognition Group   (Germany)

Author keywords

Automatic and controlled processing; Consciousness; Deduction; Reasoning; Subliminal processing

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; AWARENESS; CONSCIOUSNESS; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; PHYSIOLOGY; PROBLEM SOLVING; PSYCHOLOGICAL MODEL;

ADULT; ATTENTION; AWARENESS; CONSCIOUSNESS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MODELS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; PROBLEM SOLVING;

EID: 84655162719     PISSN: 00016918     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.actpsy.2011.09.011     Document Type: Article

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