Journal article
Entropy and Variability Discrimination
Journal of experimental psychology. Learning, memory, and cognition, Vol.27(1), pp.278-293
01/2001
DOI: 10.1037/0278-7393.27.1.278
PMID: 11204103
Abstract
Two experiments examined college students' discrimination of complex visual displays that involved different degrees of variability or "entropy." Displays depicted 16 black and white line drawings of various types (e.g., a brain, a clock, a hand); the participants were required to classify a display in terms of its variability (e.g., a low-variability display contains many identical items, whereas a high-variability display contains few identical items). The participants' accuracy and reaction time scores on a 2-alternative forced-choice discrimination disclosed that people can and do use entropy to classify different levels of visual display variability. Individuals differed in their use of absolute rather than relative entropy.
Details
- Title: Subtitle
- Entropy and Variability Discrimination
- Creators
- Michael E Young - Department of Psychology, University of IowaEdward A Wasserman - Department of Psychology, University of Iowa
- Resource Type
- Journal article
- Publication Details
- Journal of experimental psychology. Learning, memory, and cognition, Vol.27(1), pp.278-293
- Publisher
- American Psychological Association
- DOI
- 10.1037/0278-7393.27.1.278
- PMID
- 11204103
- ISSN
- 0278-7393
- eISSN
- 1939-1285
- Language
- English
- Date published
- 01/2001
- Academic Unit
- Psychological and Brain Sciences; Iowa Neuroscience Institute
- Record Identifier
- 9984070371902771
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