Ray Hyman

ThinkersBorn 1928Psychologist

Works

  • Stimulus Information as a Determinant of Reaction Time, Journal of Experimental Psychology 45(3), 1953

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A University of Oregon psychologist whose 1953 experiments, following William Edmund Hick's of 1952, showed that choice reaction time rises with the information in the stimulus, roughly the logarithm of the number of equally likely choices. The result is known as the Hick-Hyman law.

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