Mental chronometry | Wikipedia audio article
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Date: 14/12/2018

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Mental chronometry


00:01:24 1 Types
00:04:37 2 Evolution of methodology
00:04:46 2.1 Galton and differential psychology
00:05:38 2.2 Donders' experiment
00:07:07 2.3 Hick's law
00:09:04 2.4 Sternberg's memory-scanning task
00:10:31 2.5 Shepard and Metzler's mental rotation task
00:11:44 2.6 Sentence-picture verification
00:12:41 2.7 Models of memory
00:13:29 2.8 Posner's letter matching studies
00:14:58 3 Cognitive development
00:16:43 4 Cognitive ability
00:18:32 5 Application in biological psychology/cognitive neuroscience
00:20:57 6 See also



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Mental chronometry is the use of response time in perceptual-motor tasks to infer the content, duration, and temporal sequencing of cognitive operations. Mental chronometry is one of the core paradigms of  experimental and cognitive psychology, and has found application in various disciplines including cognitive psychophysiology, cognitive neuroscience, and behavioral neuroscience to elucidate mechanisms underlying cognitive processing.
Mental chronometry is studied using measurements of reaction time (RT), which is the elapsed time between the presentation of a sensory stimulus and the subsequent behavioral response. In psychometric psychology it is considered to be an index of processing speed. That is, it indicates how fast the individual can execute the mental operations needed by the task at hand. In turn, speed of processing is considered an index of processing efficiency. The behavioral response is typically a button press but can also be an eye movement, a vocal response, or some other observable behavior. RT is constrained not only by the speed of signal transmission in white matter, but also by the properties of synaptic and neural processing in cortical gray matter. Its utility as a dependent variable for drawing conclusions about information processing is constrained by the experimental design, measurement technology, and mathematical theorizing of the enterprise.