1 (of an action or activity) done so well that it seems not to need much mental or physical activity: --
We proposed that intuitive judgments of probability or frequency are based on "natural assessments" - that is, of similarity, causality, affective valence, or past frequency - which are effortless and largely automatic.
They may, instead, rely on automatic priming both within and between interlocutors to produce alignment of representations, which, in turn, makes for successful and relatively effortless speech processing.
In our experience, even monkeys gravitate toward an associative, nonmetacognitive performance strategy if they can find an effortless one that earns a decent rate of return.
Scovel by no means implies that adult language learning is effortless.
This rapid lookup procedure has been termed "direct access," corresponding to our intuition of immediate and effortless recognition of printed words.
The most astonishing thing about the structure is the relation of building to landscape, not only strikingly beautiful but seemingly unforced and effortless.
Another critical property of automatic word recognition relates to its little cognitive capacity usage or effortless performance.
The scene was like a ballet on a theatre stage, fast, precise and effortless for the spectator but in fact very demanding for the participants.
