Target-Set and Response-Set Interaction: Implications for Models of Human Information Processing
Howard E. Egeth, Norman A. Marcus, William A. Bevan · Science · 1972
In binary character-classification tasks, reaction time generally has been reported to increase substantially with the number of target elements. However, when the targets formed a familiar set and subjects were not required to make explicit "no" responses, reaction time did not increase significantly as the target set increased in size from one to three.