PT  - JOURNAL ARTICLE
AU  - Sternberg, Saul
TI  - High-Speed Scanning in Human Memory
AID  - 10.1126/science.153.3736.652
DP  - 1966 Aug 05
TA  - Science
PG  - 652--654
VI  - 153
IP  - 3736
4099  - http://science.sciencemag.org/content/153/3736/652.short
4100  - http://science.sciencemag.org/content/153/3736/652.full
SO  - Science1966 Aug 05; 153
AB  - When subjects judge whether a test symbol is contained in a short memorized sequence of symbols, their mean reaction-time increases linearly with the length of the sequence. The linearity and slope of the function imply the existence of an internal serial-comparison process whose average rate is between 25 and 30 symbols per second.