The Library

Rate of processing and judgment of response speed: comparing the effects of alcohol and practice

Tools

Maylor, Elizabeth A., Rabbitt, Patrick and Connolly, S. A. V.. (1989) Rate of processing and judgment of response speed: comparing the effects of alcohol and practice. Perception & Psychophysics, Vol.45 (No.5). pp. 431-438. ISSN 0031-5117

Full text not available from this repository.

Abstract

Subjects judged whether two visual patterns had the same shape under conditions in which the patterns could vary orthogonally in size and orientation. Analyses of reaction times and errors indicated that, before judging the correspondence between shapes, subjects normalized orientational variation by means of a continuous mental rotation. However, an analogous normalization for variation in size was not detected, and thus no evidence for an internal operation of size scaling was obtained in this experiment. The latter result is at variance with previous findings, and we discuss two possible explanations for this lack of effect.

Item Type: Journal Article
Subjects: B Philosophy. Psychology. Religion > BF Psychology
Divisions: Faculty of Science > Psychology
Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH): Alcohol -- Physiological effect, Reaction time -- Effect of drugs on , Judgment, Cognition -- Testing, Human information processing -- Effect of drugs on
Journal or Publication Title: Perception & Psychophysics
Publisher: Springer New York LLC
ISSN: 0031-5117
Official Date: 1989
Dates:
DateEvent
1989Published
Volume: Vol.45
Number: No.5
Page Range: pp. 431-438
Identification Number: 10.3758/BF03210717
Status: Peer Reviewed
Funder: Medical Research Council of Great Britain (MRC)
Grant number: G8221479 (MRC)
References:

# Jennings, J. R., Wood, C. C., &Lawrence, B. E. (1976). Effects of graded doses of alcohol on speed-accuracy tradeoff in choice reaction time.Perception & Psychophysics,19, 85–91.

# Laming, D. (1968).Information theory of choice reaction times. London: Academic Press.
# Maylor, E. A., &Rabbitt, P. M. A. (1987). Effects of alcohol and practice on choice reaction time.Perception & Psychophysics,42, 465–475.
# Maylor, E. A., &Rabbitt, P. M. A. (1989). Relationship between rate of preparation for, and processing of, an event requiring a choice response.Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology,41A, 47–62.
# Maylor, E. A., Rabbitt, P. M. A., Sahgal, A., &Wright, C. (1987). Effects of alcohol on speed and accuracy in choice reaction time and visual search.Acta Psychologica,65, 147–163.

# Rabbitt, P. M. A. (1966). Errors and error correction in choice-response tasks.Journal of Experimental Psychology,71, 264–272.

# Rabbitt, P. M. A. (1968). Three kinds of error-signalling responses in a serial choice task.Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology,20, 179–188.

# Rabbitt, P. M. A. (1979a). Current paradigms and models in human information processing. In V H. Hamilton & D. M. Warburton (Eds.),Human stress and cognition: An information processing approach (pp. 115–140). New York: Wiley.
# Rabbitt, P. M. A. (1979b). How old and young subjects monitor and control responses for accuracy and speed.British Journal of Psychology,70, 305–311.
# Rabbitt, P. M. A. (1980). A fresh look at changes in reaction times in old age. In E. Stein (Ed.),The psychobiology of aging: Problems and perspectives (pp. 425–442). Amsterdam: Elsevier North-Holland.
# Rabbitt, P. M. A., &Goward, L. (1986). Effects of age and raw IQ test scores on mean correct and mean error reaction times in serial choice tasks: A reply to Smith and Brewer.British Journal of Psychology,77, 69–73.
# Rabbitt, P. M. A., &Vyas, S. M. (1970). An elementary preliminary taxonomy for some errors in laboratory choice RT tasks.Acta Psychologica,33, 56–76.

# Sanford, A. J. (1970) Rating the speed of a simple reaction.Psychonomic Science,21, 333–334.
# Schouten, J. F., &Bekker, J. A. M. (1967).Reaction time and accuracy. Acta Psychologica,27, 143–153.
# Shepherd, M. (1984). EMDISP: A visual display system with digital and analogue sampling.Behavior Research Methods, Instruments, & Computers,16, 297–302.
# Wilkinson, R. T., &Colquhoun, W. P. (1968). Interaction of alcohol with incentive and with sleep deprivation.Journal of Experimental Psychology,76, 623–629.
URI: http://wrap.warwick.ac.uk/id/eprint/35796

Request changes or add full text files to a record

Actions (login required)

View Item View Item