Neural correlates of intuition: an event-related fMRI study of implicit perception of semantic coherence

Many of our decisions depend on „intuitive“ or „implicit“ judgments that can be described as the capacity to evaluate the coherence of context-relevant information without being able to provide an explicit explanation. To study the neural correlates of implicit vs. explicit judgments we performed an event-related fMRI study employing a semantic coherence judgment task (n=15; random effects model in SPM99, height threshold=0.001 uncorr.). In this task, participants had to judge whether three simultaneously presented words were coherent in the sense that they were all weakly related to a common associate, or wheth…