Volume 2
ATTENTION AND PERFORMANCE II
Proceedings of the Donders Centenary Symposium on Reaction Time, held in Eindhoven July 29 - August 2, 1968, under the auspices of the Institute for Perception Research IPO, Eindhoven, The Netherlands
Editor W.G.KOSTER
Institute for Perception Research IPO, Eindhoven, The Netherlands, 1969
NORTH-HOLLAND PUBLISHING COMPANY - AMSTERDAM * LONDON
CONTENTSPREFACE
Topic 1 - INFORMATION PROCESSING AND REACTION TIME
| A. T. WELFORD, A. H. NORRIS and N. W. SHOCK, Speed and accuracy of movement and their changes with age | 3 |
| R. W. PEW, The speed-accuracy operating characteristic | 16 |
| E. P. KRINCHIK, The probability of a signal as a determinant of RT | 27 |
| R. HYMAN and C. UMILTA, The information hypothesis and non-repititions | 37 |
| S. KORNBLUM, Sequential dependencies as a determinant of choice reaction time: a summary | 54 |
| D. JOHN, Mediating processes in choice reaction tasks | 58 |
| J. ANNETT, Payoff and the refractory period | 65 |
| D. KOVAC, From reaction time to the measuring of promptness | 75 |
| G.H. MOWBRAY and J. F. BIRD, The simple reaction time as an aid in determining the sign of a visual transient response | 84 |
| P. FRAISSE, Why is naming longer than reading? | 96 |
| M. I. POSNER and R. L. TAYLOR, Subtractive method applied to separation of visual and name components of multiletter arrays | 104 |
| N. C. WAUGH, The effects of recency and repetition on recall latencies | 115 |
| B. FORRIN and R. E. MORIN, Recognition times for items in short- and long-term memory | 126 |
Topic: 2 - PSYCHOLOGICAL REFRACTORY PERIOD AND SINGLE CHANNEL THEORY
| P. BERTELSON and F. TISSEYRE, The time-course of preparation: confirmatory results with visual and auditory warning signals | 145 |
| R. DAVIS and F. A. GREEN, Intersensory differences in the effect of warning signals on reaction time | 155 |
| R. GOTTSDANKER, Interacting responses to crowded signals | 168 |
| A. F. SANDERS and P. J. G. KEUSS, Grouping and refractoriness in multiple selective responses | 177 |
| P. RABBITT, Psychological refractory delay and response-stimulus interval duration in serial, choice-response tasks | 195 |
| M.C. SMITH, The effect of varying information on the psychological refractory period | 220 |
| W.G. KOSTER and J. B. PEACOCK. The influence of intensity of visual stimuli on the psychological refractory phase | 232 |
Topic 3 - THEORIES AND MODELS
| R.S. NICKERSON, 'Same'-'different' response-times: a model and a preliminary test | 257 |
| S. STERNIDERG, The discovery of processing stages: extensions of Donders' method | 276 |
| J. C. FALMAGNE and J. THEIOS, On attention and memory in reaction time experiments | 316 |
| H. C. MICKO, A psychological scale for reaction time measurement | 324 |
Topic 4 - PHYSIOLOGICAL BASIS OF REACTION TIME
| A. ANGEL, The central control of sensory transmission and its possible relation to reaction time | 339 |
| J. REQUIN, Some data on neurophysiological processes involved in the preparatory motor activity to reaction performance | 358 |
| C. T. WHITE and M. R. HARTER, Intermittency in reaction time and perception, and evoked response correlates of image quality | 368 |
| M. HAIDER, J. A. GANCILBERGER and E. GROLL-KNAPP, Thalamo-cortical components of reaction time | 378 |
| GENERAL DISCUSSION | 382 |
Appendix
| WILLIAM BOWMAN, In memoriam F. C. DONDERS | 389 |
| Official report of the ordinary meeting of the Royal Academy of Sciences, Department of Natural Sciences on Saturday, 24 June, 1865 | 409 |
| On the speed of mental processes | 412 |
| Two instruments for determining the time required for mental processes | 432 |
| A short description of some instruments and apparatus belonging to the collection of the Physiological Laboratory and the Dutch Ophthalmic Hospital | 436 |
AUTHOR INDEX 439
SUBJECT INDEX 443