PERCEPTION & PSYCHOPHYSICS

#3

As mathematical

      difficulties
            seemed to block
the rapid investigation

of better memory

            assumptions,

      we elected temporarily
to bypass

      that difficulty

by modifying
      our experimental procedure
into what is

      ,essentially,

            a simple

reaction-      time
            design.


From 'Detection of auditory signals presented at random times: III' by David M. Green and R. Duncan Luce, 1971, vol. 9, nr. 3A, p. 257.

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PERCEPTION & PSYCHOPHYSICS

#2

The same idea would explain

            why angle arms
do not appear

            bowed: Parallel matching

            to isolated segments of an angle arm

                        reveal

            orientation differences

along the angle arm,

                        but such differences
are not evident in judgments

            of the straightness
            of the complete arm.


From 'The effects of angle-arm length on judgments of angle magnitude and orientation contrast' by Peter Wenderoth and Michael Johnson, 1984, vol.36, nr. 6, p. 543.

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PERCEPTION & PSYCHOPHYSICS

#1

Judgments of the location of
short bursts of

noise

          in sentences
were used

to reveal perceptual segmentation
          of sentences.

It was assumed that segmentation

would correspond
to major

          constituent

boundaries.


From 'The active use of grammar in speech perception' by Merrill Garrett, Thomas Bever and Jerry Fodor, 1966, vol.1, nr. 1, p. 30.

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