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chronometric analysis

a method for studying a mental process that involves varying stimulus input conditions and measuring participants’ reaction times to those stimuli. The relations between the stimulus variables and reaction times are then used to make inferences about the underlying mental processes. Also called mental chronometry. See Donders’s method.

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cubic difference tone

see combination tone.