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A test for separate activation models of reaction time proposed by Miller (1982) is generalized to apply to situations with more than two redundant targets.
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Diederich, A. Probability inequalities for testing separate activation models of divided attention. Perception & Psychophysics 52, 714–716 (1992). https://doi.org/10.3758/BF03211708
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