Journal article
Speed-accuracy decomposition yields a sudden insight into all-or-none information processing
Acta psychologica, v 90(01-03), pp 229-241
Nov 1995
PMID: 8525872
Abstract
The existence of discrete all-or-none information processing has often been assumed as a basis for stage models and also as an important characteristic of nonlinear connectionist models; however, there has been little or no hard empirical evidence supporting the existence of this phenomenon. In search of such evidence, we applied speed-accuracy decomposition (Meyer et al., 1988), a technique for detecting partial response information, to the examination of the time-course of processing in a (Gestalt) insight-like task, namely, anagram solution. This task was chosen because the Gestalt psychologists conjectured that insight is a sudden, discrete phenomenon. Supporting this view, we found little or no evidence of partial information in two experiments, thereby providing what may be the strongest evidence to date for all-or-none processing.
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- Title
- Speed-accuracy decomposition yields a sudden insight into all-or-none information processing
- Creators
- John Kounios - Department of Psychology, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ 08544-1010, USARoderick W Smith - Department of Psychology, ICS, Campus Box 344, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO 80309, USA
- Publication Details
- Acta psychologica, v 90(01-03), pp 229-241
- Publisher
- Elsevier
- Resource Type
- Journal article
- Language
- English
- Academic Unit
- Psychological and Brain Sciences (Psychology)
- Web of Science ID
- WOS:A1995TH25300014
- Scopus ID
- 2-s2.0-0029396929
- Other Identifier
- 991014878422004721
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- Web of Science research areas
- Psychology, Experimental