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Presents visual stimuli for brief exposures
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tachistoscope
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Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Tachistoscope \Ta*chis"to*scope\, n. [Gr. ta`chistos, superl. of tachy`s swift + -scope.] (Physiol.) An apparatus for exposing briefly to view a screen bearing letters or figures. It is used in studying the range of attention, or the power of distinguishing ...
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A tachistoscope is a device that displays an image for a specific amount of time. It can be used to increase recognition speed, to show something too fast to be consciously recognized, or to test which elements of an image are memorable. Projection tachistoscopes ...
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n. a device that displays a series of brief images; used by psychologists to investigate perception, memory and learning
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n. scientific instrument used by psychologists; presents visual stimuli for brief exposures [syn: t-scope ]
Usage examples of tachistoscope.
Hunter and I labored for two hours to speed-read a chain of reports that appeared before our eyes like tachistoscope images.
There is inspection time, often measured with tachistoscopes and their descendants, by flashing a pair of lines on a screen for a fraction of a second and asking which was longer.
As I had looked into the tachistoscope, my left leg hit against something hard.
James Vicary gave a public demonstration of the tachistoscope, a machine for flashing messages on a motion picture screen so fast that they can be read only by the subconscious mind.