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Peer reviewedGilden, David L.; Wilson, Stephanie Gray – Cognitive Psychology, 1995
Signal detection experiments with 21 college students suggest that streakiness is a property of auditory and visual discrimination in that correct and incorrect responses have a positive sequential dependency. Monte-Carlo simulations of observed data sequences suggest that streaky performance results from wavelike variations in perceptual and…
Descriptors: Attention, Auditory Discrimination, College Students, Higher Education


