Abstract
When subjects judge whether a test symbol is contained in a short memorized sequence of symbols, their mean reaction-time increases linearly with the length of the sequence. The linearity and slope of the function imply the existence of an internal serial-comparison process whose average rate is between 25 and 30 symbols per second.
Keywords
Sequence (biology)Symbol (formal)Function (biology)LinearityMathematicsArithmeticProcess (computing)AlgorithmComputer sciencePhysicsBiologyGenetics
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Saul Sternberg
(1966).
High-Speed Scanning in Human Memory.
Science
, 153
(3736)
, 652-654.
https://doi.org/10.1126/science.153.3736.652
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- 10.1126/science.153.3736.652