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abstract: "We investigated the ability of people to time themselves as they perform cognitive tasks. One\r\ngroup did a memory search task, another did a visual search task. After each response,\r\nparticipants estimated the duration of their own reaction time. In both tasks, correlations\r\nbetween reaction times and temporal judgments were significant, showing that people can\r\nprovide precise quantitative estimates of mental processes when they perform memory and visual\r\nsearch tasks. Increasing load lengthened reaction times and temporal estimates in both tasks.\r\nAccuracy of temporal judgments increased across blocks of experimental trials, showing\r\nconsiderable improvement in self-timing with practice although in visual search, improvement\r\nwas more pronounced under low load conditions. Results demonstrate excellent ability for selftiming\r\nof memory and visual search, but suggest that in visual search, self-timing is influenced by\r\nstimulus conditions."
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conference: The 26th Annual Meeting of the International Society for Psychophysics
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- family: Schweickert
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title: Self-timing in Memory and Visual Search Tasks
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