In defence of high-speed memory scanning.

This paper reviews some of the evidence that bears on the existence of a mental high-speed serial exhaustive scanning process (SES) used by humans to interrogate the active memory of a set of items to determine whether it contains a test item. First proposed in the 1960s, based on patterns of reacti...

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Published in:	Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology Vol. 69; no. 10; pp. 2020 - 2076
Main Author:	Sternberg, Saul
Format:	Article
Published:	Sage Publications Inc. Oct2016
Subjects:	Memory Scanning systems Reaction time Brain function localization Forensic accounting
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