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Nature 387, 756-757 (19 June 1997) |

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Experimental psychology:  In a blink of the mind's eye

Jeremy M. Wolfe1

Imagine a stream of characters appearing, one at a time, on a computer screen at a rate of about eight per second: P-D-E-X-G-4-F-K. You can read characters at this rate — if asked, you could successfully push a button when you saw a 4.

  1. Center for Ophthalmic Research, Brigham and Womens Hospital, 221 Longwood Avenue, Boston, Massachusetts02115, USA.
    e-mail: Email: wolfe@search.bwh.harvard.edu