foreperiods

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A form of foreperiod — A time interval, in reaction time experiments, between the ready signal and the stimulus

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noun
  1. pluralplural of foreperiod

    The presence of long and variable foreperiods necessitates a penalty of 10 ms (Dodonova and Dodonov, 2013 ).

    2015 August 20, Michael A. Woodley of Menie, Jan te Nijenhuis, Raegan Murphy, “The Victorians were still faster than us. Commentary: Factors influencing the latency of simple reaction time”, in Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, volume 9, →DOI
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