hucka at eecs.umich.edu (Michael Hucka) writes:
>I've been trying to determine what is the minimum presentation time of a
>visual stimulus that will allow a human observer to extract *some*
>information. Of course, this is going to be very task- and
>experience-dependent, but for recognizing simple forms or making simple
>discriminations, what is generally accepted as being a valid lower limit on
>exposure time?
>...
It depends what kind of task you're talking about. Murphy & Zajonc
(1993), to name one of many, used an affective priming technique that
allowed subjects to reliably extract emotional information from a
photograph in as little as 4 ms. Subjects were not consciously aware (see
Greenwald, 1992, for a good discussion of consciousness) of having seen
the stimuli, but nevertheless were affected by it...
Jordan L.K. Schwartz ! University of Washington
JLKS at U.WASHINGTON.EDU ! Department of Psychology
http://alfred1.u.washington.edu:8080/~jlks/jordan.html
