APS
30th APS Annual Convention · 2018
Involuntary Insight, Judgments, and Syntactic Processing and Their Experimentally-Controlled Determinants
- Jessica Yankulova
San Francisco State University - Ngoc-Cam Bui
San Francisco State University - Ezequiel Morsella
San Francisco State University - Ezequiel Morsella
University of California, San Francisco
Abstract
Two experiments reveal involuntary stimulus-elicited insights (e.g., WAX + FLAME = insight of “candle”), syntactic processing (reading of nonsense symbols), and judgments of nonsensicality (e.g., “green sun”). Evidence illuminates some determinants of these thoughts, including primacy effects. The findings illuminate how both thoughts and percepts of reality can arise involuntarily.
Consciousness
