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Comments[edit]

At the beginning, before the Contents you need a 1-2 sentence short definition of mental chronometry, such as the second sentence in the Defintion and history section. Then make this section just History. In stead of Major research findings, you may want to make it "Examples in research" or parallel to your last section "Application of mental chronometry in cognitive psychology". When you refer to a study, use the APA format "Posner (1978) ..." Finally, I think that you need to add a little more to the theory and methodology using time to assess a sequence of information processing components. And a little more in the history part. User: Klnorman

Final Comments 10 May 2006[edit]

Nicely written. Excellent length and detail for a good scholarly article in Wikipedia. Good formating etc. Group points = 48/50.

Useful Computer Programs that Test the Below?[edit]

Has anybody found any useful computer programs that test for the different reaction tests (Posner, et al.?). Or has anyone gone about creating such programs? What are possible (and, hopefully, thoroughly tested) theories that would concern how it is that performance on such tests relates to IQ, general problem solving ability and other studying or knowledge-retrieval/expert-system generating capabilities? For example, would it be likely that someone who performs exceptionally on such tests would also perform exceptionally when in comes to trivia quizzes or mathematical, scientific and practical problem solving?

Has anyone ever tested the effect of sleep deprivation, stress and other similar issues on the performance of such individuals on such tests? User: Hyperclocked 11:41, 26 November 2006

Merge Proposal[edit]

I think that this article should be merged with Reaction time. There's a huge amount of overlap, and this article needs a lot of expansion that would result in even more overlap. I think that this should be the destination page rather than RT because as reaction time tests are a measure of mental chronometry, MC covers wider ground overall. I'd be fine merging the sections into RT if there are objections though, likely on the grounds that RT is a lot more active than this article. Either way, I do think these articles should be merged. -Ferahgo the Assassin (talk) 20:05, 11 September 2010 (UTC)[reply]

I'll probably be doing this soon unless anyone has objections, so speak now or forever hold your peace... -Ferahgo the Assassin (talk) 02:08, 15 September 2010 (UTC)[reply]

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Reaction time[edit]

User:Anthonyhcole has re-created and linked the article Reaction Time, which may need to be discussed here since a merge previously occurred. I personally think the newly created page is currently less useful than this one, even if its focus is more precise. People looking for "Reaction time" previously found this article, with plenty of information, but now only see 4 sentences and (at this time) no links towards this one. "Reaction time" occurs 42 times in the this article's text ("mental chronometry" only occurs 13 times), so the subject is also quite unambiguously the same. Prinsgezinde (talk) 13:21, 26 February 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Sold, Prinsgezinde. I Have moved the definition from Reaction time to this article [1] and made Reaction time a redirect to the definition [2]. --Anthonyhcole (talk · contribs · email) 22:49, 26 February 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Excellent solution Anthonyhcole, I'm glad this was solved so quickly. Prinsgezinde (talk) 23:11, 26 February 2018 (UTC)[reply]