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DURING the past decade an increasing number of experimental psychologists have returned to the problems raised by a human subject's reaction-time, the interval between the occurrence of a signal and the initiation of a response to it. Many recent investigations, such as those of Klemmer1,2, Karlin3, Drazin4, Bertelson and Boons5, Kay and Weiss6, have been concerned with the way in which reaction-time to a signal varies with the duration of the foreperiod, the interval between a warning signal and the signal to respond.
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DAVIS, R. Time Uncertainty and the Estimation of Time-intervals. Nature 195, 311–312 (1962). https://doi.org/10.1038/195311a0
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