E C Poulton
Biographic Data
| ID | 1659404 |
|---|---|
| NAME | E C Poulton |
| GIVEN NAMES | E C |
| FAMILY NAME | Poulton |
| SIGNATURE | POULTON E C |
| AFFILIATIONS | Medical Research Council |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-5395-8461 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 21 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 26 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 21 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1957 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1982 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Influential companions: Effects of one strategy on another in the within-subjects designs of cognitive psychology
Masking, beneficial arousal and adaptation level: A reply to Hartley
This is a reply to Hartley's (1981) four criticisms of my 1978 a paper in the Psychological Bulletin. Two of Hartley's criticisms are rejected. The two remaining criticisms are accepted, but neither is crucial to the ‘masking hypothesis’. An experiment is reported which shows that people tap louder in quiet when they wear ear protectors than when they do not. This is due to their level of adaptation. It is pointed out that in Hartley's (1981) cla…
Models for biases in judging sensory magnitude
Models for biases in judging sensory magnitude
A new look at the effects of noise: A rejoinder
A new look at the effects of noise upon performance
A new look at the effects of noise: A rejoinder
Quantitative subjective assessments are almost always biased, sometimes completely misleading
Subjective assessments are used widely in civilized societies for evaluating people, the work they do, and the stresses they work under. Yet most of the people who use subjective assessments are probably not aware of the pitfalls which they involve.Range effects introduced by the investigator almost inevitably bias quantitative subjective assessments, unless very special precautions are taken to prevent or eliminate the bias. Stevens' method of d…
Continuous intense noise masks auditory feedback and inner speech
The rise of electric vehicles (EVs) is unstoppable due to factors such as the decreasing cost of batteries and various policy decisions. These vehicles need to be charged and will therefore cause congestion in local distribution grids in the future. Motivated by this, we consider a charging station with finitely many parking spaces, in which electric vehicles arrive in order to get charged. An EV has a random parking time and a random charging ti…
Range effects are characteristic of a person serving in a within-subjects experimental design: A reply to Rothstein
Unwanted range effects from using within-subject experimental designs
The new psychophysics: Six models for magnitude estimation
Memory After Reading Aloud and Reading Silently
Twenty‐four housewives read passages aloud and silently in balanced order, and then answered questions on them. Time allowed for silent reading was matched to time taken to read aloud. Memory for the first 30 per cent of the passage was reliably ( P P
Unwanted asymmetrical transfer effects with balanced experimental designs
On simple methods of scoring tracking error
Peripheral Vision, Refractoriness and Eye Movements in Fast Oral Reading
Naval ratings read typescript aloud through a window whose speed and size varied systematically in different trials. Eye movements were recorded electrically. Errors increased significantly as the window was reduced from a full line to five words, probably as a result of the tighter pacing and reduced peripheral vision. Regressions were unaffected. This is a serious criticism of reading films using windows to ‘improve’ the reading of adults. Erro…
British Courses for Adults on Effective Reading
S ummary . For many people the rate of reading never catches up with the maximum rate of comprehension. A course on effective reading for adults is described which is designed to increase the rate of reading, and match it to the material read and to the amount of information which the reader wishes to absorb. The course originated in America, but has been modified to suit the needs of British adults. Table 1 gives most of the reliable results whi…
The Optimal Perceptual Load in a Paced Auditory Inspection Task
A paced auditory inspection task was presented at four levels of perceptual load and three rates of critical signals. The aim was to determine whether there was an optimal range of perceptual load, over which deterioration in performance with time would be minimal. Beyond this optimal range, where the load was either too great (soon producing ‘mental fatigue’), or too small (soon producing ‘boredom’), greater deterioration was to be expected. The…
Time for Reading and Memory
This paper on silent reading is concerned with the rate of comprehension, selection while reading, and the rigidity of pacing while reading. Subjects studied 144 short statements under one of three degrees of pacing: ( a ) a time was set for studying the whole series of statements (whole condition), ( b ) each complete statement was presented in turn by itself for a set time (statement condition), and ( c ) part only of a single statement was pre…
Previous Knowledge and Memory
This paper is concerned: ( a ) with the relationship between previous knowledge and memory, ( b ), with differences between recall and recognition, and ( c ) with set for time of memory test while learning. Subjects listened to 144 short statements, half of which were true and half false. They had to rate each statement on a five‐point scale for certainty of their truth or falsehood. A test of memory was then carried out for half of the statement…
On prediction in skilled movements
Unwanted range effects from using within-subject experimental designs
The new psychophysics: Six models for magnitude estimation
On prediction in skilled movements
Quantitative subjective assessments are almost always biased, sometimes completely misleading
Subjective assessments are used widely in civilized societies for evaluating people, the work they do, and the stresses they work under. Yet most of the people who use subjective assessments are probably not aware of the pitfalls which they involve.Range effects introduced by the investigator almost inevitably bias quantitative subjective assessments, unless very special precautions are taken to prevent or eliminate the bias. Stevens' method of d…
Influential companions: Effects of one strategy on another in the within-subjects designs of cognitive psychology
Continuous intense noise masks auditory feedback and inner speech
The rise of electric vehicles (EVs) is unstoppable due to factors such as the decreasing cost of batteries and various policy decisions. These vehicles need to be charged and will therefore cause congestion in local distribution grids in the future. Motivated by this, we consider a charging station with finitely many parking spaces, in which electric vehicles arrive in order to get charged. An EV has a random parking time and a random charging ti…
A new look at the effects of noise: A rejoinder
Time for Reading and Memory
This paper on silent reading is concerned with the rate of comprehension, selection while reading, and the rigidity of pacing while reading. Subjects studied 144 short statements under one of three degrees of pacing: ( a ) a time was set for studying the whole series of statements (whole condition), ( b ) each complete statement was presented in turn by itself for a set time (statement condition), and ( c ) part only of a single statement was pre…
Previous Knowledge and Memory
This paper is concerned: ( a ) with the relationship between previous knowledge and memory, ( b ), with differences between recall and recognition, and ( c ) with set for time of memory test while learning. Subjects listened to 144 short statements, half of which were true and half false. They had to rate each statement on a five‐point scale for certainty of their truth or falsehood. A test of memory was then carried out for half of the statement…
On prediction in skilled movements
Time for Reading and Memory
This paper on silent reading is concerned with the rate of comprehension, selection while reading, and the rigidity of pacing while reading. Subjects studied 144 short statements under one of three degrees of pacing: ( a ) a time was set for studying the whole series of statements (whole condition), ( b ) each complete statement was presented in turn by itself for a set time (statement condition), and ( c ) part only of a single statement was pre…
The Optimal Perceptual Load in a Paced Auditory Inspection Task
A paced auditory inspection task was presented at four levels of perceptual load and three rates of critical signals. The aim was to determine whether there was an optimal range of perceptual load, over which deterioration in performance with time would be minimal. Beyond this optimal range, where the load was either too great (soon producing ‘mental fatigue’), or too small (soon producing ‘boredom’), greater deterioration was to be expected. The…
British Courses for Adults on Effective Reading
S ummary . For many people the rate of reading never catches up with the maximum rate of comprehension. A course on effective reading for adults is described which is designed to increase the rate of reading, and match it to the material read and to the amount of information which the reader wishes to absorb. The course originated in America, but has been modified to suit the needs of British adults. Table 1 gives most of the reliable results whi…
On simple methods of scoring tracking error
Peripheral Vision, Refractoriness and Eye Movements in Fast Oral Reading
Naval ratings read typescript aloud through a window whose speed and size varied systematically in different trials. Eye movements were recorded electrically. Errors increased significantly as the window was reduced from a full line to five words, probably as a result of the tighter pacing and reduced peripheral vision. Regressions were unaffected. This is a serious criticism of reading films using windows to ‘improve’ the reading of adults. Erro…
Unwanted asymmetrical transfer effects with balanced experimental designs
Memory After Reading Aloud and Reading Silently
Twenty‐four housewives read passages aloud and silently in balanced order, and then answered questions on them. Time allowed for silent reading was matched to time taken to read aloud. Memory for the first 30 per cent of the passage was reliably ( P P
The new psychophysics: Six models for magnitude estimation
Unwanted range effects from using within-subject experimental designs
Range effects are characteristic of a person serving in a within-subjects experimental design: A reply to Rothstein
Quantitative subjective assessments are almost always biased, sometimes completely misleading
Subjective assessments are used widely in civilized societies for evaluating people, the work they do, and the stresses they work under. Yet most of the people who use subjective assessments are probably not aware of the pitfalls which they involve.Range effects introduced by the investigator almost inevitably bias quantitative subjective assessments, unless very special precautions are taken to prevent or eliminate the bias. Stevens' method of d…
Continuous intense noise masks auditory feedback and inner speech
The rise of electric vehicles (EVs) is unstoppable due to factors such as the decreasing cost of batteries and various policy decisions. These vehicles need to be charged and will therefore cause congestion in local distribution grids in the future. Motivated by this, we consider a charging station with finitely many parking spaces, in which electric vehicles arrive in order to get charged. An EV has a random parking time and a random charging ti…
A new look at the effects of noise: A rejoinder
A new look at the effects of noise upon performance
A new look at the effects of noise: A rejoinder
Models for biases in judging sensory magnitude
Models for biases in judging sensory magnitude
Masking, beneficial arousal and adaptation level: A reply to Hartley
This is a reply to Hartley's (1981) four criticisms of my 1978 a paper in the Psychological Bulletin. Two of Hartley's criticisms are rejected. The two remaining criticisms are accepted, but neither is crucial to the ‘masking hypothesis’. An experiment is reported which shows that people tap louder in quiet when they wear ear protectors than when they do not. This is due to their level of adaptation. It is pointed out that in Hartley's (1981) cla…
Influential companions: Effects of one strategy on another in the within-subjects designs of cognitive psychology
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