Assessing automaticity

Automaticity and Emotion 1 Automaticity and Emotion

Assessing the automaticity of moral processing: Efficient coding of moral information during narrative comprehension

A long-standing theoretical debate concerns the involvement of principled reasoning versus relatively automatic intuitive-emotional processing in moral cognition. To address this, we investigated whether the mental models formed during story comprehension contain a moral dimension and whether this process is affected by cognitive load. A total of 72 participants read stories about fictional cha...

Automaticity and Second Languages

Model Checking and Automaticity

Automaticity and Rationality 1

Automaticity is a measure of descriptional complexity for formal languages L, and measures how closely L can be approximated by regular languages. I survey some of the known results and open problems on automaticity. I also discuss a measure which I call \rationality", and explain how it generalizes the well-known concept of linear complexity.