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In a visual-detection experiment. a display of several letters was presented. and S was to report the presence or absence of a given target letter. Results clearly are incompatible with a self-terminating visual-scanning process as hypothesized by Sternberg (1967). Two models are considered. a serial exhaustive scanning process and a parallel exhaustive process, but findings from the present study do not provide a basis for differentiating between them.
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This research was supported by Grant NGR-05-020244 from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration.
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Atkinson, R.C., Holmgren, J.E. & Juola, J.F. Processing time as influenced by the number of elements in a visual display. Perception & Psychophysics 6, 321–326 (1969). https://doi.org/10.3758/BF03212784
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