Being confident without seeing: What subjective measures of visual consciousness are about

Attention, Perception, and Psychophysics

Volumn 75, Issue 7, 2013, Pages 1406-1426

  Zehetleitner, Michael ^a   Rausch, Manuel ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

Confidence rating; Consciousness; Decision making; Heterophenomenology; Masking; Signal detection theory; Subjective experience; Visual awareness

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BLINDNESS; CONSCIOUSNESS; DECISION MAKING; EMOTION; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; METHODOLOGY; ORIENTATION; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PERCEPTION; PERCEPTIVE DISCRIMINATION; PHYSIOLOGY; PSYCHOLOGICAL MODEL; PSYCHOMETRY; STATISTICAL MODEL; VISION; VISUAL SYSTEM; YOUNG ADULT;

ADULT; BLINDNESS; CONSCIOUSNESS; DECISION MAKING; DISCRIMINATION (PSYCHOLOGY); EMOTIONS; FEMALE; HUMANS; LINEAR MODELS; MALE; MODELS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; ORIENTATION; PERCEPTUAL MASKING; PSYCHOMETRICS; SIGNAL DETECTION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; VISUAL PATHWAYS; VISUAL PERCEPTION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84885732168     PISSN: 19433921     EISSN: 1943393X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3758/s13414-013-0505-2     Document Type: Article

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