The Feeling of Knowing: Some Metatheoretical Implications for Consciousness and Control

Author: Koriat A.

Source: Consciousness and Cognition, Volume 9, Number 2, June 2000 , pp. 149-171(23)

Publisher: Academic Press

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Abstract:

The study of the feeling of knowing may have implications for some of the metatheoretical issues concerning consciousness and control. Assuming a distinction between information-based and experience-based metacognitive judgments, it is argued that the sheer phenomenological experience of knowing (“noetic feeling”) occupies a unique role in mediating between implicit-automatic processes, on the one hand, and explicit-controlled processes, on the other. Rather than reflecting direct access to memory traces, noetic feelings are based on inferential heuristics that operate implicitly and unintentionally. Once such heuristics give rise to a conscious feeling that feeling can then affect controlled action. Examination of the cues that affect noetic feelings suggest that not only do these feelings inform controlled action, but they are also informed by feedback from the outcome of that action. Copyright 2000 Academic Press.

Language: English

Document Type: Research article

Affiliations: Department of Psychology, University of Haifa, Haifa, Israel:

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