Visual Perception Response

A University of London team found that people who went with their initial response on a test of visual perception (questions included picking out an anomaly in a pattern of symbols) did better [blank] those who were given more time to ponder. Whereas the subconscious brain recognized a rotated version of the [blank] symbol as different, the conscious brain reasoned that 'an apple is still an apple whether rotated or not,' the researchers on the project [blank] . When the subjects had time to engage their higher-level functions instead of relying [blank] their intuitive responses, they were more likely to be wrong.