To discover whether there was a significant difference between visual serial search time for Arabic and Roman numbers, a repeated-measurements design was used with a group of 20 undergraduate female Ss. Results demonstrated the superiority of visual serial search for Arabic over Roman numbers across 10 30-sec. trials with 60-sec. intervening between equivalent tasks. This effect was thought to be a function of the heterogeneity of target and field components.
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