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Minimum duration and ISI necessary for the perceptual integration of letters presented over a brief temporal interval were measured. Time per each letter necessary for the integration was found to be about.25 sec, which is close to the iconic storage duration.
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Osaka, N., & Osaka, M. On the measurement of iconic storage by using the Parks effect. Paper read at the Meeting of Japanese Association for Educational Psychology, Kanazawa, Japan, 1979.
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This work was supported in part by Grant 571056 from the Japan Ministry of Education and a Yoshida Memorial Foundation grant.
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Osaka, N. Minimum duration necessary for integration of briefly presented letters. Bull. Psychon. Soc. 18, 309–310 (1981). https://doi.org/10.3758/BF03333636
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