A multicomponent theory of the perception of briefly exposed visual displays
Journal of Mathematical PsychologyPublished 1 June 1970
David E. Rumelhart
Citations279
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In a final section the model which is presented as an extension of Bower's multicomponent model for memory is shown to be derivable as a limiting case of LaBerge's neutral element stimulus sampling model.
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A feature extraction model for the recognition of tachistoscopically presented alphanumeric material is presented. This model is applied to data from whole report, partial report, detection, and backward masking experiments. On the whole, the results are encouraging. In a final section the model which is presented as an extension of Bower's multicomponent model for memory is shown to be derivable as a limiting case of LaBerge's neutral element stimulus sampling model.
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