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Theoretical and Empirical Confusion Functions

Nature volume 195, page 836 (1962)Cite this article

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CROSSMAN1 produced an empirical ‘confusion function’ with a value for a pair of stimuli proportional to the time taken to discriminate between them.

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  1. War Office Clothing and Equipment Physiological Research Establishment, Farnborough, Hants.

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HUGHES, I. Theoretical and Empirical Confusion Functions. Nature 195, 836 (1962). https://doi.org/10.1038/195836a0

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