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Timing of Cognitive Responses in Naming Tasks

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THE processes of perception are currently envisaged as organized into hierarchies of tests for criterial attributes of stimuli1–3. Analysis of stimulus information may be total or partial, and the tests arranged in series or in parallel. This general conceptual approach derives primarily from studies of intelligibility in dichotic listening, but finds support from studies of word recognition, and from visual search studies in which time is the principal4 measure of performance.

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BERRY, C. Timing of Cognitive Responses in Naming Tasks. Nature 215, 1203–1204 (1967). https://doi.org/10.1038/2151203a0

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