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Duration discrimination of the last of a series of four clicks was investigated. Examination of psychophysical functions from eight subjects revealed evidence for a Weber’s law model relating discrimination to base interclick interval. Also, the point of subjective equality was seen to change reliably as a function of base rate.
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This research was undertaken while the first author was a visitor at the Laboratory of Experimental Psychology at the University of Sussex. Financial support was provided by an NSF graduate fellowship to the first author and a grant from the Science Research Council to N. S. Sutherland.
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Halpern, A.R., Darwin, C.J. Duration discrimination in a series of rhythmic events. Perception & Psychophysics 31, 86–89 (1982). https://doi.org/10.3758/BF03206204
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