Tachistoscope

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • n. An apparatus that projects a series of images onto a screen at rapid speed to test visual perception, memory, and learning.
    • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • n. a device that displays a series of brief images; used by psychologists to investigate perception, memory and learning
    • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • n. An apparatus for exposing briefly to view a screen bearing letters or figures. It is used in studying the range of attention, or the power of distinguishing separate objects in a single impression.
    • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • n. In experimental psychology, an apparatus which exposes to view, for a brief and accurately variable time, an object or small group of objects (letters, short words, etc.).
    • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • n. scientific instrument used by psychologists; presents visual stimuli for brief exposures
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