The feeling of fluent perception: A single experience from multiple asynchronous sources

Wurtz, Pascal; Reber, Rolf; Zimmermann, Thomas D (2007). The feeling of fluent perception: A single experience from multiple asynchronous sources. Consciousness and cognition, 17(1), pp. 171-184. Amsterdam: Elsevier 10.1016/j.concog.2007.07.001

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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.

Item Type:	Journal Article (Original Article)
Division/Institute:	04 Faculty of Medicine > Department of Head Organs and Neurology (DKNS) > Clinic of Neurology
UniBE Contributor:	Wurtz, Pascal
ISSN:	1053-8100
ISBN:	17697788
Publisher:	Elsevier
Language:	English
Submitter:	Factscience Import
Date Deposited:	04 Oct 2013 14:55
Last Modified:	05 Dec 2022 14:17
Publisher DOI:	10.1016/j.concog.2007.07.001
PubMed ID:	17697788
Web of Science ID:	000255329300014
URI:	https://boris.unibe.ch/id/eprint/23501 (FactScience: 42037)