Subjective measures of implicit knowledge that go beyond confidence: Reply to Overgaard et al

Overgaard, Timmermans, Sandberg, and Cleeremans (2010) ask if the conscious experience of people in implicit learning experiments can be explored more fully than just confidence ratings allow. We show that confidence ratings play a vital role in such experiments, but are indeed incomplete in themsel...

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Published in:Consciousness and cognition 2010-06, Vol.19 (2), p.685-686
Main Authors: Dienes, Zoltán, Scott, Ryan B., Seth, Anil K.
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Cognition & reasoning
Confidence
Consciousness
Implicit learning
Learning
Subjective measures
Unconscious knowledge
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Summary:Overgaard, Timmermans, Sandberg, and Cleeremans (2010) ask if the conscious experience of people in implicit learning experiments can be explored more fully than just confidence ratings allow. We show that confidence ratings play a vital role in such experiments, but are indeed incomplete in themselves: in addition, use of structural knowledge attributions and ratings of fringe feelings like familiarity are important in characterizing the phenomenology of the application of implicit knowledge.
ISSN:1053-8100
1090-2376
DOI:10.1016/j.concog.2010.01.010