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A visual experiment is reported in which Os rated their “confidence” that briefly presented four-letter arrays contained one or more target-letter Fs. Their responses are interpreted as the product of a weighted “additive” combination of partial or “noisy” subjective representations of the four letters in each array.
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Psychology Research Report No. 2, Princeton University, November 25, 1973.
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Kinchla, R.A., Collyer, C.E. Detecting a target letter in briefly presented arrays: A confidence rating analysis in terms of a weighted additive effects model. Perception & Psychophysics 16, 117–122 (1974). https://doi.org/10.3758/BF03203263
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