THE EFFECT OF INFORMATION LOAD ON THE RECOGNITION OF ALPHA-NUMERIC STIMULI,

Abstract

The prupose of the present experiment was to determine the effect of the amount of information on the recognition of alpa-numeric stimuli. The stimuli used in the present experiment were digita, consonants, rare and common words. In general words were more accurately recognized than either digits or consonants. For digits and consonants, there appeared to be a positive relationship between the amount of information and the accuracy of recognition; that is, to some extent those stimuli conveying less information. These results suggest that, with alpha-numeric coding, the information load can be increased without imparing the accuracy of recognition. (Author)

Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
May 01, 1962
Accession Number
AD0435442

Entities

People

  • Bennet B. Murdock Jr.
  • Madge M. Grace

Organizations

  • University of Vermont

Tags

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Accuracy
  • Alphabets
  • Consonants
  • Identification
  • Linguistics
  • Notation
  • Recognition

Fields of Study

  • Psychology

Readers

  • Human-Computer Interaction (HCI).
  • Speech Processing/Speech Recognition.
  • Theoretical Analysis.