I love fiction that has something to say and doesn't "hide behind art," novels that feel true, that are not self-conscious experiments.
That earnest but uneven reintroduction includes the jagged throwback "Indie Cindy" (below), as well as self-conscious experiments like the explosive "What Goes Boom" and the contemplative "Another Toe in the Ocean".
But one difference is that much, or most, of Gass's self-conscious experiment is going on at the level of the sentence, its style and especially its sound, rather than look-at-me games with plot or character.
The over-egged style of "London Bridges," and the allusions to other writers -- Hattie, medieval forehead and all, has been sampled from the English mystery writer Margery Allingham -- suggest that the novel is being presented as a self-conscious experiment with form.
Our experiments focus on the contents of conscious experience within the RHI, devoting special attention to disownership.
The results of the three experiments support the hypothesis according to which decisions are made in the hedonic dimension of conscious experience.
The difficulty to assess conscious perception in controlled experiments, in particular, gave rise to endless methodological discussions as to the best approach to consciousness, and what counts as index of conscious experience – e.g., direct vs. indirect, objective vs. subjective measures [18], [25], [36].
The small group size of the conscious animal experiments and the potential effect of anesthesia on the coronary responses in the majority of the flow studies are also acknowledged.
Very few of the classical feet, the units of metre, have found a home in English, beyond the world of conscious metrical experiment.
Results show that phasic auditory alertness affects visual perception by increasing the visual processing speed and lowering the threshold of conscious perception (Experiment 1).
By manipulating the intensity of the alerting cue, we further observed a positive relationship between alerting intensity and processing speed, which was not seen for the threshold of conscious perception (Experiment 2).
