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psychological refractory period CONCEPT
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the phenomenon by which people are unable to make more than one conscious decision (and, by extension, unable to complete more than one task) within a few hundred milliseconds

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PRP

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Tasks that are asserted to measure psychological refractory period

Task Contrast Measure
target detection task
  • stimulus onset asynchrony (SOA)

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