LAWS OF THE SIMPLE VISUAL REACTION TIME
FOURTEEN STUDIES FROM THE LITERATURE ON THE REACTION TIME (RT) TO A FLASH OF LIGHT PROVIDED SUFFICIENT METHODOLOGICAL DETAIL AND DATA TO ALLOW FOR A QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS OF THE EFFECTS OF THE FOLLOWING SELECTED VARIABLES: LUMINANCE, DURATION, SIZE OF STIMULUS, RESPONSE TO ONSET VERSUS TERMINATION OF THE SIGNAL, AND MONOCULAR VERSUS BINOCULAR VIEWING. MATHEMATICAL RELATIONSHIPS WERE DEVELOPED WHICH CAN BE USED TO PREDICT BINOCULAR RTS OVER A WIDE RANGE OF LUMINANCE, SIGNAL DURATION, AND SIGNAL SIZE. IT WAS ALSO SHOWN THAT THE PRODUCT OF RT AND LUMINANCE MAY BE USED TO REPRESENT A RESPONSE CRITERION IN THE SENSE IMPLIED BY THE THEORY OF SIGNAL DETECTION AS DEVELOPED IN RECENT LATENCY MODELS. THE RESULTS WERE INTERPRETED AS SUGGESTING TWO GENERAL ENERGY-PROCESSING ACTIVITIES -- CRITERION DEVELOPMENT AND AN IMPULSE "COUNTDOWN" -- GOING ON IN PARALLEL WHICH ARE IN SERIES WITH A SENSORY DELAY. /DOT/
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Authors:
- Teichner, W D
- Krebs, M J
- Publication Date: 1972-7
Media Info
- Pagination: p. 344-58
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Serial:
- Psychological Review
- Volume: 79
- Issue Number: 4
- Publisher: American Psychological Association
- ISSN: 0033-2909
Subject/Index Terms
- TRT Terms: Brightness; Flashing traffic signals; Perception; Psychological aspects; Reaction time; Sight distance; Signal lights; Vision; Visual perception
- Old TRIS Terms: Vision characteristics
- Subject Areas: Highways; Safety and Human Factors;
Filing Info
- Accession Number: 00224245
- Record Type: Publication
- Files: TRIS
- Created Date: Jun 19 1973 12:00AM