1 / f noise in human cognition : Is it ubiquitous , and what does it mean ?
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Copyright 2006 Psychonomic Society, Inc. The second author was supported by a VENI grant from the Dutch Organization for Scientific Research (NWO). The third author was supported by NIMH Grant R37-MH44640. We thank Michael Lee, David Gilden, Thomas Thornton, and an anonymous reviewer for their insightful reviews of a previous version of the manuscript. We are also grateful for Tom Thornton’s assistance in clarifying the specifics of the spectral classification method. Correspondence concerning this article should be addressed to S. Farrell, Department of Experimental Psychology, University of Bristol, 12a Priory Road, Clifton, Bristol BS8 1TU, England (e-mail: simon [email protected]). Psychonomic Bulletin & Review 2006, 13 (4), 737-741
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