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TL;DR: Asymmetries in the processing of input to either side of the midline are related to hemispheric specialization in man when preponderant activation of one hemisphere biases attention to the contralateral side.

1,086 citations


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TL;DR: In this paper, a new compound-stimuli visual information (CSVI) type of task was designed for testing quantitatively the central processor M construct, i.e., the maximum number of discrete "chunks" of information or schemes that M can control or integrate in a single act.

937 citations


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TL;DR: It is found that the flow of movement in the listener may be rhythmically coordinated with the speech and movements of the speaker, and how the way in which individuals may be in synchrony with one another can vary is shown.

458 citations


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TL;DR: This paper describes how the subjective probabilities of overhaul completion gleaned from workers in each power station, are combined in the Midlands Region Information Centre, resulting in a prediction of the expected capabilities of the level of power generation over a possible horizon of 30 weeks.

193 citations


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TL;DR: In this article, the authors briefly discuss some important current questions and problem related to the use of scoring rules (SRs) both in connection with the actual assegmentation of probabilities and with the evaluation of probability forecasts and probability assessors.

162 citations


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TL;DR: In this study, eight RT difference predictions were made for various kinds of sentence pairs, and all eight of these predictions held.

143 citations


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TL;DR: The conclusion is drawn that the main reason for the diverging tendencies noted is the information-generating nature of the passage of time following the warning signal in reaction time experiments with randomized foreperiods of different durations.

139 citations


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TL;DR: It is concluded that while speed-error trade-off functions allow detailed analysis of sequential operations between perceptual discrimination and response selection within individual tasks, they do not provide a valid means of distinguishing between performance in different tasks.

118 citations


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TL;DR: The results indicated that under conditions in which the delivery of the relevant stimuli can be quite accurately anticipated, two of the five subjects showed before relevant, but not irrelevant, stimuli both a widespread decrease in the EEG amplitude and a large negative phase of the slow potential.

102 citations


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TL;DR: In this paper, the role of spatial orientation is discussed and comments are given on the results of experiments on shadowing, and it is suggested that optimal allocation of attention is often achieved in both types of tasks.

94 citations


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TL;DR: The theoretical framework advanced here would derive ‘true’ conservation from the concepts of identity built up by the child from primitive identity at one end of the spectrum and personal identity at the other, as the child converges on the intrinsic identity of an amount.

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TL;DR: This paper showed that there was no significant effect of response rate on first-and second-order nonrandomness, and that there appeared to be substantial individual differences for first and secondorder non-randomness.

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TL;DR: It is argued that the rules of consistency form sufficient conditions for the existence of formally admissible subjective probabilities, although other, logical or empirical, reasons may induce to further restrictions.

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TL;DR: In this paper, the relation between cognitive processes and time experience was studied and it was shown that apparent duration increases with the transmission rate of information. But, it appeared that the way in which "transmission" is defined is of great importance for the nature of the effect.

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TL;DR: The paper discusses various properties that scoring rules should possess in order to encourage honesty and includes a survey of assessment techniques which do not rely on scoring rules.

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TL;DR: In this paper, the effect of time uncertainty and number of choices on the same or separate components of RT has been investigated, and it was found that time uncertainty was positively associated with the number of alternatives in one group not in the other.

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TL;DR: Two logically independent models were adduced, both of which assume a non-attentional parallel pathway with properties similar to those ascribed to the recticular formation to reconcile a discrepancy with single channel theory.

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TL;DR: In this article, the authors describe an experiment in which 203 Ss judged binary sequences of white and black dots with respect to randomness, and the results showed that sequences with conditional probabilities around 0.4 were judged as most random.

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TL;DR: An analysis in a sample of 30 S s of the processing of spatial information when expressed in pictorial and linguistic (verbal) symbolic representations confirmed that it takes more time to name the arrow directions than to read the words and that an interference phenomenon can be produced using mismatched spatial symbols.

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TL;DR: In a group experiment on olfactory sensitivity a hypothesis derived from a theory by Eysenck, predicting that introverts manifest a higher sensitivity than extraverts, and a hypothesis offered by Broverman et al., predicting that females are more sensitive than males, were tested.

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TL;DR: In this article, the effect of relative signal frequency on CRT was investigated and it was shown that motor preparation, peculiar to a specific response, is a determinant of the relative frequency effect.

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TL;DR: In this paper, the effect of continuous work on human performance was studied in a reaction-time experiment with six Ss working continuously for 30 min in each of nine sessions, with each Ss on a schedule of 2 min work and 2 min of rest.

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TL;DR: The consistency and orthogonality of indices of sensitivity and bias have been examined in an auditory detection task andReasonably consistent estimates of d' were obtained from as few as forty responses and the bias index β was less satisfactory but another index related to it was more promising.

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TL;DR: In the predecisional stage of information processing subjects often revise prior probabilities of several hypotheses on the basis of sample information as mentioned in this paper, which is often crucial for a consistent utilization of both prior and sampling distributions in probabilistic inference tasks.

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TL;DR: In this article, the authors propose to think of probability judgements as the result of an individual's feelings of uncertainty, translated into a numercial response by internal decision processes, which can be more or less related to stimulus or task characteristics, and it can to varying degrees be affected by memory and cognitive processes.

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TL;DR: It is proposed that recognition memory for digits involves a sequential, exhaustive search process that is self-terminating, and a hypothesis is proposed to account for this and several other recently reported results.

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TL;DR: The problem of identifying an appropriate reference against which to judge whether responses are delayed or facilitated is discussed, and an ad hoc energy-summation model of intersensory facilitation is developed.

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TL;DR: Evidence indicated that children with greater intellectual capacity and with higher IQs benefited more from both of the modeling procedures, and raised several questions concerning the adequacy of the Piagetian ‘action-equilibrium’ hypothesis as an explanatory device in the development of more abstract models of thinking.

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TL;DR: In this paper, the authors describe a number of experiments on the perception and recall of simultaneous speech items presented dichotically or mixed together either binaurally or monaurally.

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TL;DR: The CNV appears to reflect what is sometimes termed expectancy in vigilance, and also the level of detection performance independently of time, and its further links with conditioning may qualify it for consideration as a physiological adjunct of Holland's (1958) observing response.