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method of choice

a psychophysical procedure in which the participant is presented with several arrays of stimuli, one of which contains the target stimulus. The participant’s task is to choose the array that contains the target stimulus.

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January 30th 2025

vowel

vowel

n.

1. a voiced speech sound that is produced when the breath stream vibrating the vocal cords has unobstructed passage through the vocal tract.

2. one of the letters of the alphabet used to represent these sounds in writing. Compare consonant.