Amount of information gained during brief exposures of numerals and colors.

1 January 1958

journal article
Published by American Psychological Association (APA) in Journal of Experimental Psychology

Vol. 56 (4) , 362-369
https://doi.org/10.1037/h0040769

Abstract

"In the present experiments the problem of how much S can perceive during the brief exposure of a group of stimulus objects is re-examined from the viewpoint of the relation of amount of information transmitted to information coding and amount of information displayed…. Performance at first increased and then decreased as information content per message was systematically increased, reaching different maxima for each of the three coding schemes studied." (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2006 APA, all rights reserved)

Keywords

INFORMATION
FROM NUMERALS & COLORS
VISION
INFORMATION GAINED FROM EXPOSURE TO
INFORMATION GAINED IN
COLOR PERCEPTION
NUMBER
INFORMATION CONTENT
INFORMATION GAIN
PERFORMANCE