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Previous research had found that the accuracy with which an S could report an indicated letter or target in a briefly exposed multiletter display decreased as the number of irrelevant letters increased, and accuracy increased if the position of the target letter was indicated 150 msec before the display was presented. Iii the present experiment, these variables were reinvestigated using vocal reaction time as the dependent variable. An interpretation of the accuracy measures in terms of differential processing times was supported. The results of the two experiments were discussed in terms of a model of attentional selectivity.
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This investigation was supported by United States Public Health Service Research Grant MH-1206 and United States Public Health Service Research Career Program Award No. K6-MH-22014.
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Eriksen, C.W., Hoffman, J.E. Some characteristics of selective attention in visual perception determined by vocal reaction time. Perception & Psychophysics 11, 169–171 (1972). https://doi.org/10.3758/BF03210367
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