Serial memory processing: Difference between revisions

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- Serial memory processing can be Self-Terminating and/or Exhaustive. Internal representations of the memory set are compared to the target stimulus <ref name=Sternberg />. RT increases linearly with set size, the more items the longer it takes (because there is one more internal comparison to be done)<ref name=Sternberg />.

- Self-Terminating = comparisons are made one at a time, as soon as target is found the comparisons stop abruptly and a response is generated <ref name=Townsend />