Table 1.
Study | N | Domain | Description of the random material | Time of exposition to the stimulus (in seconds)a |
---|---|---|---|---|
Adelson (1981) | 10 | Programming | Lines of programs presented in a random order | 20 |
Barfield (1986) | 22 | Programming | Lines of programs presented in a random order | 300 |
Bateson, Alexander, and Murphy (1987) | 50 | Programming | Lines of programs presented in a random order | 180 |
Charness (1979) | 20 | Games (Bridge) | Unstructured bridge hands | 5 |
Chiesi, Spilich, and Voss (1979) | 42 | Sport (Baseball) | Random sentence presentation order of baseball events | not given |
Engle and Bukstel (1978) | 4 | Games (Bridge) | Unstructured bridge hands | 20 |
Gerard (1998) | 100 | Other (Diagrams) | Diagrams with labels randomized | 180 |
Gobet and Simon (1996c) | 13 | Games (Chess) | Shuffled chess positions | 5 |
Gobet and Simon (2000) | 20 | Games (Chess) | Shuffled chess positions | 15 |
Gobet and Waters (2003) | 36 | Games (Chess) | Shuffled chess positions | 5 |
Gong, Ericsson, and Moxley (2015) | 23 | Games (Chess) | Shuffled chess positions | 5 |
Guerin and Matthews (1990) | 104 | Programming | Lines of programs presented in a random order | 600 |
Holding and Reynolds (1982) | 24 | Games (Chess) | Shuffled chess positions | 8 |
Kalakoski and Saariluoma (2001) | 16 | Other (Taxi drivers) | Random auditory presentation of streets | not given |
Knecht (2003) | 20 | Music | Shuffled notes in a musical stave | not given |
Magliaro and Burton (1986) | 16 | Programming | Lines of programs presented in a random order | 120 |
Nakatani and Yamaguchi (2014) | 24 | Games (Shogi) | Shuffled shogi positions | 5 |
Pezzulo, Borghi, Barca, and Bocconi (2010) | 6 | Sport (Climbing) | Impossible routes on a climbing wall | not given |
Schmidt (1986) | 20 | Programming | Lines of programs presented in a random order | 4 |
Schneider, Gruber, Gold, and Opwis (1993)—S1 | 40 | Games (Chess) | Shuffled chess positions | 10 |
Schneider, Gruber, Gold, and Opwis (1993)—S2 | 40 | Games (Chess) | Shuffled chess positions | 10 |
Schultetus and Charness (1999) | 17 | Games (Chess) | Shuffled chess positions | 8 |
Sloboda, (1976)—S1 | 8 | Music | Shuffled notes in a musical stave | 2 |
Sloboda, (1976)—S2 | 8 | Music | Shuffled notes in a musical stave | 0.075 |
Sloboda, (1976)—S3 | 10 | Music | Shuffled notes in a musical stave | 2 |
Sloboda, (1976)—S4 | 10 | Music | Shuffled notes in a musical stave | 2 |
Weber and Brewer (2003) | 48 | Sport (Hockey) | Shuffled sentences of play from hockey matches | 50.6 |
Zhilin and Tkachuk (2013) | 152 | Other (Chemistry) | Random sequences of chemical symbols | 30 |
a When the study presented only the overall performance of several trials, the mean time of exposition was reported in the table