期刊论文

Shapiro, Kimron

英文

Psychological Research

0340-0727

2012

76

5

566-578

10.1007/s00426-011-0375-y

本校为第一机构

As Turing (1936, Proceedings of the London Mathematical Society) noted, a fundamental process in human cognition is to effect chained sequential operations in which the second operation requires an input from the preceding one. Although a great deal is known about the costs associated with 'independent' (unrelated) operations, e. g., from the classic psychological refractory period paradigm, far less is known about those operations to which Turing referred. We present the results of two behavioural experiments, where participants were required ...