Mental chronometry
The term mental chronometry was coined in the 19th century and today describes a research approach within cognitive psychology . The main question is how mental processes are organized in terms of time and how they are coordinated with one another. The analysis of reaction times plays a central role here. Mental chronometry experienced a great revival with the cognitive turn in the 1960s. Since then, numerous methods and models for interpreting the response time have been developed.
In the imaging , time sequences are recorded using functional magnetic resonance tomography (fMRI-based mental chronometry).
Among the pioneers in the 19th century were Francis Galton and Frans Cornelis Donders (1868, Donders subtraction method). Contributions in the 20th century come from, among others, Saul Sternberg , William Edmund Hick ( Hick's Law ) and Michael Posner .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Henrik Walter: Functional imaging in psychiatry and psychotherapy: methodological principles and clinical applications . Schattauer Verlag, 2004, ISBN 3-7945-2324-5 , p. 29.
literature
- Thomas Schack: The cognitive architecture of human movements: Innovative approaches to psychology, sports science and robotics . Meyer & Meyer Verlag, Aachen 2010, ISBN 978-3-89899-441-5 , p. 217.