Visual information processing of sequentially presented inputs: I. effects of input timing on sub-span storage and retrieval mechanisms’

A computer-based cathode-ray tube display system was employed to study the effect of subspan list length, i.e., two, three, or four five-letter words, and several interstimulus interval (ISI) values, i.e., 100, 150, 200, 250, 300, 500, and 700 msec, on visual information processing. Complicated interactions were found between list length and IS1 values. Two classes of Ss were identified and labeled as “slow” and “fast” processors and the overall findings were related to a provisional model of visual information processing with sequential inputs.

[1]  M. S. Mayzner,et al.  Further preliminary findings on some effects of very fast sequential input rates on perception , 1966 .

[2]  C. W. Crannell,et al.  A Comparison of Immediate Memory Span for Digits, Letters, and Words , 1957 .

[3]  C W Eriksen,et al.  Sensory traces versus the psychological moment in the temporal organization of form. , 1968, Journal of experimental psychology.

[4]  C T White,et al.  Temporal numerosity and the psychological unit of duration. , 1963, Psychological monographs.

[5]  M. S. Mayzner.  The research potential of a computer-based cathode-ray tube display system , 1968 .

[6]  B. J. Winer.  Statistical Principles in Experimental Design , 1992 .

[7]  Peter H. Schiller,et al.  Forward and backward masking as a function of relative overlap and intensity of test and masking stimuli , 1966 .

[8]  A. W. Melton.  Implications of short-term memory for a general theory of memory , 1963 .

[9]  G. A. Miller.  THE PSYCHOLOGICAL REVIEW THE MAGICAL NUMBER SEVEN, PLUS OR MINUS TWO: SOME LIMITS ON OUR CAPACITY FOR PROCESSING INFORMATION 1 , 1956 .

[10]  G. Sperling,et al.  Successive approximations to a model for short term memory. , 1967, Acta psychologica.

[11]  Allen L. Edwards,et al.  Experimental Design in Psychological Research. , 1951 .

[12]  Harold Schlosberg,et al.  The relations in serial visual perception. , 1965 .

[13]  D. Lindsley,et al.  Cortical Evoked Potentials and Perception of Paired Flashes , 1963, Science.

[14]  M. S. Mayzner,et al.  Information processing of letter and word pairs as a function of on and off times , 1968 .