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Subjects who were exposed to 5 min of perceptual deprivation (unpatterned light and white noise) or to a similar duration of visual, auditory, or kinesthetic deprivation showed no significant changes in the tachistoscopic recognition threshold for digits relative to two control groups. Similar results were obtained in a second experiment employing a condition of sensory deprivation (darkness and silence).
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1. This research was supported by the Defence Research Board, Canada (No. 9425-08) and by the National Research Council, Canada (APA-290).
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Milstein, S.L., Oleson, D. & Zubek, J.P. The effect of short-term sensory restriction on the tachistoscopic recognition threshold. Psychon Sci 11, 193–194 (1968). https://doi.org/10.3758/BF03327651
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