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Elsevier, Consciousness and Cognition, 1(19), p. 478-480

DOI: 10.1016/j.concog.2009.12.006

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The distinction between intuition and guessing in the SRT task generation: A reply to Norman and Price

Journal article published in 2010 by Qiufang Fu, Zoltán Dienes ORCID, Xiaolan Fu
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Abstract

We (Fu, Dienes, & Fu, 2010) investigated the extent to which people could generate sequences of responses based on knowledge acquired from the Serial Reaction Time task, depending on whether it felt subjectively like the response was based on pure guessing, intuition, conscious rules or memories. Norman and Price (2010) argued that in the context of our task, intuition responses were the same as guessing responses. In reply, we argue that not only do subjects apparently claim to be experiencing different phenomenologies when saying intuition versus guess, but also intuition and guess responses are associated with different behaviors. We found that people could control the knowledge when generating responses felt to be based on intuition but not those felt to be pure guessing. We present further evidence here that triplets associated with intuition but not guessing were also processed fluently.