tachistoscope
IPA: tˈætʃɪstɑskoʊp
noun
- A device that displays a series of brief images; used by psychologists to investigate perception, memory and learning.
Examples of "tachistoscope" in Sentences
- Scientists developed an instrument called the tachistoscope to study the effects of flicker.
- The simple java application is based on the tachistoscope, a rapid image recognition device.
- A device called a tachistoscope was used during WWII to help fighter pilots identify aircraft silhouettes.
- Researcher James Vicary has installed a tachistoscope, a machine that can inject subliminal images of tiny fractions of a second-far below that of a person's conscious threshold.
- In laboratory tests, split brains look at objects through a tachistoscope that presents information to only one hemisphere or look at image that is flashed briefly to one side of the visual field.