Infants’ recognition memory has been shown to be related to individual differences in look duration and level of heart period variability. This study examined the effect of individual differences in these 2 measures on infants’ recognition of briefly presented visual stimuli using a paired-comparison recognition-memory paradigm. A sample of 35 full-term infants was studied longitudinally at 14,...

Although in many studies divided attention has been examined by having people perform the same task (e.g., report or search) with a large number of objects, in few studies have people had to perform two logically independent tasks involving the same brief display. In two experiments, subjects saw 200-msec arrays of characters. In dual-task blocks, theyclassified the color of some or all of the ...

Displays of eight capital letters were presented in a circular arrangement around a central fixation point at tachistoscopic durations. Under different experimental conditions, one or two indicators, presented either 250 msec before, simultaneously with, or after the display, designated the letters that S was to report. The arrangement of conditions permitted inferences as to the order in which...

Hugh Quoil, soldier of Waterloo, came to New England in 1823 and by some chance found himself settled on the shores of Walden Pond some two miles from where Henry Thoreau had his abode during one phase of his study of nature. Quoil lived a life of peculiar pattern, defying colonial conventions and fostering his own notions as to what would make for his welfare. His ideas were essentially two: t...

A peripheral uniform stimulus on a uniform background tends to fade when a ring enclosing the stimulus is flashed briefly, indicating that neural signals external to the stimulus such as those from the ring or those from the background tend to inhibit the onset-response or after-discharge of the stimulus. In this study, a peripheral achromatic line was flashed briefly on an achromatic backgroun...