The feeling of fluent perception: A single experience from multiple asynchronous sources
| Autor: | Thomas D. Zimmermann, Rolf Reber, Pascal Wurtz |
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| Rok vydání: | 2008 |
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Visual perception
Consciousness media_common.quotation_subject Recognition Psychology Experimental and Cognitive Psychology Cognition Contrast Sensitivity Form Perception Fluency Discrimination Psychological Reading Arts and Humanities (miscellaneous) Feeling Form perception Perception Reaction Time Visual Perception Developmental and Educational Psychology Humans Percept Psychology Cognitive psychology media_common |
| Zdroj: | Consciousness and Cognition. 17:171-184 |
| ISSN: | 1053-8100 |
| DOI: | 10.1016/j.concog.2007.07.001 |
| Popis: | Zeki and co-workers recently proposed that perception can best be described as locally distributed, asynchronous processes that each create a kind of microconsciousness, which condense into an experienced percept. The present article is aimed at extending this theory to metacognitive feelings. We present evidence that perceptual fluency-the subjective feeling of ease during perceptual processing-is based on speed of processing at different stages of the perceptual process. Specifically, detection of briefly presented stimuli was influenced by figure-ground contrast, but not by symmetry (Experiment 1) or the font (Experiment 2) of the stimuli. Conversely, discrimination of these stimuli was influenced by whether they were symmetric (Experiment 1) and by the font they were presented in (Experiment 2), but not by figure-ground contrast. Both tasks however were related with the subjective experience of fluency (Experiments 1 and 2). We conclude that subjective fluency is the conscious phenomenal correlate of different processing stages in visual perception. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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