Decay of Visual Information from a Single Letter
- 6 October 1967
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in Science
- Vol. 158 (3797), 137-139
- https://doi.org/10.1126/science.158.3797.137
Abstract
If the trace of a letter can be matched more rapidly with a physically identical letter (as in the pair AA) than it can be with a letter having only the same name (as in the pair Aa), then the trace must preserve the visual aspect of the letter. The visual information from a single letter decays in about 1.5 seconds if the task provides little incentive for preservation.This publication has 8 references indexed in Scilit:
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