Hick’s law equivalent for reaction time to individual stimuli

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tarald O. Kvålseth
Keyword(s):  
Reaction Time ◽  
Hick’S Law

scholarly journals Pigeon reaction time, Hick’s law, and intelligence

2000 ◽  
Vol 7 (2) ◽  
pp. 284-291 ◽  
Author(s):  
Coryn Vickrey ◽  
Allen Neuringer
Keyword(s):  
Reaction Time ◽  
Hick’S Law

A Further Test of Hick's Law with Unequally Likely Alternatives

1966 ◽  
Vol 22 (3) ◽  
pp. 967-970 ◽  
Author(s):  
H. Kaufman ◽  
Robert M. Levy
Keyword(s):  
Reaction Time ◽  
Choice Reaction Time ◽  
Information Sources ◽  
Experimental Conditions ◽  
Transmitted Information ◽  
Hick’S Law

The present study was designed to replicate Lamb and Kaufman's (1965) findings of a relationship between choice reaction time and transmitted information for equally likely (ELA) and unequally likely (ULA) stimulus alternatives. The possible confounding of variability between sessions and between experimental conditions in the Lamb and Kaufman study was eliminated by using a single S in all experimental sessions. Results, in essential agreement with those of the earlier study, suggest strongly that the ELA and ULA conditions are fundamentally different as information sources.

The Effects of Stimulus Dimensionality on the Rate of Gain of Information

1972 ◽  
Vol 24 (3) ◽  
pp. 299-309 ◽  
Author(s):  
Robert M. Levy ◽  
Gloria K. Norton
Keyword(s):  
Reaction Time ◽  
Choice Reaction Time ◽  
Judgment Task ◽  
Absolute Judgment ◽  
Transmitted Information ◽  
Hick’S Law ◽  
Stimulus Identification

Hick's paradigm as extended to an absolute judgment task by Doherty was used to study the effects of dimensionality on the rate of stimulus identification in two experiments. Two undimensional conditions, size and brightness, and two bidimensional conditions, size-brightness redundant and size-brightness non-redundant, were employed. The significant linear components of the regression of choice reaction time on transmitted information for the undimensional and bidimensional stimuli supported and extended Hick's law. The finding of nearly identical slopes for the two undimensional and redundant bidimensional condition regression lines suggests a stage of processing which has a constant capacity in bits/s and which is independent of stimulus dimensionality. An increase in slope for the non-redundant condition is attributed to a difference in response requirements.

Reaction time adaptation: Hick’s law may bias the outcome.

1996 ◽  
Vol 99 (4) ◽  
pp. 2491-2500
Author(s):  
T. Goldman ◽  
E. M. Weiler ◽  
D. E. Sandman ◽  
J. M. Davis
Keyword(s):  
Reaction Time ◽  
Hick’S Law

Hick’s law for choice reaction time: A review

2018 ◽  
Vol 71 (6) ◽  
pp. 1281-1299 ◽  
Author(s):  
Robert W Proctor ◽  
Darryl W Schneider
Keyword(s):  
Reaction Time ◽  
Choice Reaction Time ◽  
Interface Design ◽  
Historical Context ◽  
Large Set ◽  
Sequential Dependencies ◽  
Stimulus Response ◽  
Hick’S Law ◽  
Response Alternatives ◽  
Theoretical Analyses

In 1952, W. E. Hick published an article in the Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, “On the rate of gain of information.” It played a seminal role in the cognitive revolution and established one of the few widely acknowledged laws in psychology, relating choice reaction time to the number of stimulus–response alternatives (or amount of uncertainty) in a task. We review the historical context in which Hick conducted his study and describe his experiments and theoretical analyses. We discuss the article’s immediate impact on researchers, as well as challenges to and shortcomings of Hick’s law and his analysis, including effects of stimulus–response compatibility, practice, very large set sizes and sequential dependencies. Contemporary modeling developments are also described in detail. Perhaps most impressive about Hick’s law is that it continues to spawn research efforts to the present and that it is regarded as a fundamental law of interface design for human–computer interaction using technologies that did not exist at the time of Hick’s research.

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