On the predictor variable for choice reaction time
Memory & CognitionPublished 1 May 1974Open access
George E. Brigg
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A survey of published research using the Sternberg task found that a majority of the data are better described by a linear equation involving log positive set size than by one involving set size per se as the scale of the predictor variable.
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A survey of published research using the Sternberg task was made for the period 1966 to early 1973. A majority of the data are better described by a linear equation involving log positive set size than by one involving set size per se as the scale of the predictor variable.
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