Area and Randomness Estimates of Complex Stimuli
John C. Baird, Daniel Römer, C. G. Toby Mathias · Perceptual and Motor Skills · 1969
On the basis of previous work a negative relationship was hypothesized between stimulus complexity and the exponent of the power function for area estimates. The present study pursued a variant of this hypothesis by comparing randomness estimates of targets with the value of the exponent for area estimates. Two experiments showed that a decrease in the exponent is linked with an increase in randomness estimates. It is suggested that this relationship is due to differential memory constraints imposed by stimuli of differing complexity.