@article{ref1,
title="On the time course of perceptual information that results from a brief visual presentation",
journal="Journal of experimental psychology: human perception and performance",
year="1992",
author="Loftus, G. R. and Duncan, J. and Gehrig, P.",
volume="18",
number="2",
pages="530-49; discussion 550",
abstract="A briefly presented visual stimulus engenders an available-information function that lags behind the physical stimulus. We report two experiments that focus on the iconic-decay portion of this function, which falls to 0 over a 200-300 ms period following stimulus offset. In each experiment, to-be-reported digit strings were shown for varying durations followed by a noise mask at varying poststimulus intervals. We found the shape of the performance curve relating digit-report probability to stimulus exposure duration to be independent of stimulus-mask interstimulus interval. This finding is consistent with the proposition that the iconic-decay function's shape is independent of stimulus duration and allows us to identify this shape. We rejected exponential iconic decay for 6 of 8 observers; however, all observers' decay functions could be adequately fit by gamma decay, a generalization of exponential decay.<p /> <p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="0096-1523",
doi="",
url="http://dx.doi.org/"
}