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tachistoscopes

tachistoscopes is the plural of tachistoscope.

Meaning of tachistoscope

Noun

tachistoscope (plural tachistoscopes)

  1. A device that displays a series of brief images; used by psychologists to investigate perception, memory and learning.
    • Any task involving words is likely to be affected by word frequency. For example, Howes and Solomon (1951) show that the visual duration threshold necessary for correct report of those words when they are presented via a tachistoscope (an old-fashioned machine that presents visual materials for an...2025, Edward A. F. Gibson, “Preliminaries: Components of Language Structure” (chapter 2), in Syntax: A Cognitive Approach, MIT Press, →DOI, →ISBN, page 28

Questions about tachistoscopes

What is tachistoscopes the plural of?
Tachistoscopes is the plural of tachistoscope.

Words near tachistoscopes in the dictionary

  1. tachisme
  2. tachist
  3. tachiste
  4. tachistes
  5. tachistoscope
  6. tachistoscopes
  7. tachistoscopic
  8. tachistoscopically
  9. tachistoscopy
  10. tachistosopic
  11. tachists

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