D E Broadbent
Biographic Data
| ID | 745186 |
|---|---|
| NAME | D E Broadbent |
| GIVEN NAMES | D E |
| FAMILY NAME | Broadbent |
| SIGNATURE | BROADBENT D E |
| AFFILIATIONS | Medical Research Council, Cambridge, England |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 14 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 5 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 14 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1956 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1984 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
The Psychological Mechanisms of Language: A Joint Symposium of the Royal Society and the British Academy
The Cognitive Failures Questionnaire (CFQ) and its correlates
This paper describes a questionnaire measure of self‐reported failures in perception, memory, and motor function. Responses to all questions tend to be positively correlated, and the whole questionnaire correlates with other recent measures of self‐reported deficit in memory, absent‐mindedness, or slips of action. The questionnaire is however only weakly correlated with indices of social desirability set or of neuroticism. It is significantly cor…
Modality differences in relation to grouping in immediate recall
An earlier study of auditory grouped presentation of digit strings had shown recall to be impaired by recalling the last group first. From this, it has been concluded that the item codes formed at Stage 1 of processing, and before conversion to a group code at Stage 2, were not yet in an output buffer. The present paper employs visual presentation for two similar studies, with results opposite to the earlier one; in a third experiment, ungrouped …
Cognitive Psychology and Education
Free Recall With Assistance From One and From Two Retrieval Cues
A list of words was presented for free recall, and hints were later given for unrecalled words by presenting first one and then a second cue word associated with the unrecalled words. Earlier results by Tulving & Osler had shown that one cue assists recall but had shown no benefit from the second cue; in their task, however, the associations were established with the experiment. In the present results, the second cue did produce a further increme…
The Well Ordered Mind
At the beginning of George Eliot's great novel Middlemarch, the heroine's uncle enquires how one of his friends arranges his documents, and is told pigeonholes. Ah, says the uncle, pigeonholes will not do. have tried pigeonholes, but everything gets mixed in pigeonholes: never know whether a paper is in A or Z. I wish you would let me sort your papers for you, Uncle, said Dorothea, I would letter them all and then make a list of subjects under ea…
On the Interaction of S‐r Compatibility With Other Variables Affecting Reaction Time
Choice reactions to tactual stimulation were studied, using compatible instructions (react with the finger that is stimulated) and incompatible ones (react with the corresponding finger on the other hand). It was found that decrease in compatibility increased the effect of number of alternative reactions, of uncertainty about the time of arrival of a stimulus, of a simultaneous distracting task, and of an unequal frequency of arrival of different…
Some Confirmatory Results on Age Differences in Memory for Simultaneous Stimulation
Two experiments were carried out to investigate further the relationship between age and immediate memory for two streams of material applied simultaneously to two sensory channels. The material was presented over ordinary television transmitters during programmes, viewers being requested to send in their responses. In both experiments the viewers saw three items and heard another three. In Expt. I all items were digits; in Expt. II both the visu…
Vigilance Considered as a Statistical Decision
A number of experiments are described in which untrained subjects kept watch during long periods for inconspicuous signals. When they reported such a signal, they had to indicate their degree of confidence that the report was correct. By analysing the accuracy of reports in each category of confidence, it can be shown that they are quite inconsistent with the concept that stimuli are either definitely perceived or definitely fail to be detected, …
Effects of a Subsidiary Task on Performance Involving Immediate Memory by Younger and Older Men
Many practical situations expect a man to seek out and respond to signals, while at the same time remembering which signal is the one now requiring response. Most situations devised by psychologists, on the other hand, examine either reaction to signals without memory, or memory without reaction. A task has been devised in which both functions are involved. It consists of sets of random numbers which are observed through a small slot allowing onl…
Psychophysical Methods and Individual Differences in the Kinaesthetic Figural After‐effect
Recently Eysenck found that hysterics displayed greater figural after‐effects than dysthymics do in a situation involving judgements of width of a wooden block by touch, before and after experience of a wider block. In the present research three groups of subjects were tested in a similar situation with some modifications. There was no correlation between extraversion and figural after‐effect: however, there was a correlation with one of the cons…
Perception and communication.
Information Conveyed by Vowels
Most speech sounds may be said to convey three kinds of information: linguistic information which enables the listener to identify the words that are being used; socio-linguistic information, which enables him to appreciate something about the background of the speaker; and personal information which helps to identify the speaker. An experiment has been carried out which shows that the linguistic information conveyed by a vowel sound does not dep…
Listening Between and During Practised Auditory Distractions
Subjects were instructed to answer a rapid series of questions, and during series a buzzer was sometimes sounded. Some subjects were instructed to make a reaction to this buzzer; this produced an interference with speech task, both at instant of buzz and also between buzzes. latter interference was reduced by previous practice at buzzer reaction, but former was not. If buzzer was one of two possible signals for a two‐choice reaction, interference…
Cognitive Psychology and Education
Some Confirmatory Results on Age Differences in Memory for Simultaneous Stimulation
Two experiments were carried out to investigate further the relationship between age and immediate memory for two streams of material applied simultaneously to two sensory channels. The material was presented over ordinary television transmitters during programmes, viewers being requested to send in their responses. In both experiments the viewers saw three items and heard another three. In Expt. I all items were digits; in Expt. II both the visu…
Vigilance Considered as a Statistical Decision
A number of experiments are described in which untrained subjects kept watch during long periods for inconspicuous signals. When they reported such a signal, they had to indicate their degree of confidence that the report was correct. By analysing the accuracy of reports in each category of confidence, it can be shown that they are quite inconsistent with the concept that stimuli are either definitely perceived or definitely fail to be detected, …
Psychophysical Methods and Individual Differences in the Kinaesthetic Figural After‐effect
Recently Eysenck found that hysterics displayed greater figural after‐effects than dysthymics do in a situation involving judgements of width of a wooden block by touch, before and after experience of a wider block. In the present research three groups of subjects were tested in a similar situation with some modifications. There was no correlation between extraversion and figural after‐effect: however, there was a correlation with one of the cons…
Listening Between and During Practised Auditory Distractions
Subjects were instructed to answer a rapid series of questions, and during series a buzzer was sometimes sounded. Some subjects were instructed to make a reaction to this buzzer; this produced an interference with speech task, both at instant of buzz and also between buzzes. latter interference was reduced by previous practice at buzzer reaction, but former was not. If buzzer was one of two possible signals for a two‐choice reaction, interference…
Information Conveyed by Vowels
Most speech sounds may be said to convey three kinds of information: linguistic information which enables the listener to identify the words that are being used; socio-linguistic information, which enables him to appreciate something about the background of the speaker; and personal information which helps to identify the speaker. An experiment has been carried out which shows that the linguistic information conveyed by a vowel sound does not dep…
Perception and communication.
Psychophysical Methods and Individual Differences in the Kinaesthetic Figural After‐effect
Recently Eysenck found that hysterics displayed greater figural after‐effects than dysthymics do in a situation involving judgements of width of a wooden block by touch, before and after experience of a wider block. In the present research three groups of subjects were tested in a similar situation with some modifications. There was no correlation between extraversion and figural after‐effect: however, there was a correlation with one of the cons…
Effects of a Subsidiary Task on Performance Involving Immediate Memory by Younger and Older Men
Many practical situations expect a man to seek out and respond to signals, while at the same time remembering which signal is the one now requiring response. Most situations devised by psychologists, on the other hand, examine either reaction to signals without memory, or memory without reaction. A task has been devised in which both functions are involved. It consists of sets of random numbers which are observed through a small slot allowing onl…
Vigilance Considered as a Statistical Decision
A number of experiments are described in which untrained subjects kept watch during long periods for inconspicuous signals. When they reported such a signal, they had to indicate their degree of confidence that the report was correct. By analysing the accuracy of reports in each category of confidence, it can be shown that they are quite inconsistent with the concept that stimuli are either definitely perceived or definitely fail to be detected, …
On the Interaction of S‐r Compatibility With Other Variables Affecting Reaction Time
Choice reactions to tactual stimulation were studied, using compatible instructions (react with the finger that is stimulated) and incompatible ones (react with the corresponding finger on the other hand). It was found that decrease in compatibility increased the effect of number of alternative reactions, of uncertainty about the time of arrival of a stimulus, of a simultaneous distracting task, and of an unequal frequency of arrival of different…
Some Confirmatory Results on Age Differences in Memory for Simultaneous Stimulation
Two experiments were carried out to investigate further the relationship between age and immediate memory for two streams of material applied simultaneously to two sensory channels. The material was presented over ordinary television transmitters during programmes, viewers being requested to send in their responses. In both experiments the viewers saw three items and heard another three. In Expt. I all items were digits; in Expt. II both the visu…
The Well Ordered Mind
At the beginning of George Eliot's great novel Middlemarch, the heroine's uncle enquires how one of his friends arranges his documents, and is told pigeonholes. Ah, says the uncle, pigeonholes will not do. have tried pigeonholes, but everything gets mixed in pigeonholes: never know whether a paper is in A or Z. I wish you would let me sort your papers for you, Uncle, said Dorothea, I would letter them all and then make a list of subjects under ea…
Free Recall With Assistance From One and From Two Retrieval Cues
A list of words was presented for free recall, and hints were later given for unrecalled words by presenting first one and then a second cue word associated with the unrecalled words. Earlier results by Tulving & Osler had shown that one cue assists recall but had shown no benefit from the second cue; in their task, however, the associations were established with the experiment. In the present results, the second cue did produce a further increme…
Cognitive Psychology and Education
Modality differences in relation to grouping in immediate recall
An earlier study of auditory grouped presentation of digit strings had shown recall to be impaired by recalling the last group first. From this, it has been concluded that the item codes formed at Stage 1 of processing, and before conversion to a group code at Stage 2, were not yet in an output buffer. The present paper employs visual presentation for two similar studies, with results opposite to the earlier one; in a third experiment, ungrouped …
The Cognitive Failures Questionnaire (CFQ) and its correlates
This paper describes a questionnaire measure of self‐reported failures in perception, memory, and motor function. Responses to all questions tend to be positively correlated, and the whole questionnaire correlates with other recent measures of self‐reported deficit in memory, absent‐mindedness, or slips of action. The questionnaire is however only weakly correlated with indices of social desirability set or of neuroticism. It is significantly cor…
The Psychological Mechanisms of Language: A Joint Symposium of the Royal Society and the British Academy
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