VisualVerbal: Visual versus Verbal Performance
In tessington/qsci381: Data used in QSCI 381, University of Washington

Experiment to compare visual and verbal performance

A data frame with 80 observations on the following 5 variables.

Subject: Subject number (s1 to s20)
Task: Follow a letter (Visual) or a sentence (Verbal)
Report: Point response (Visual) or say response (Verbal)
Group: Combination of Task+Report (Letter Point, Letter Say, Sentence Point, or Sentence Say)
Time: Response time (in seconds)

Subjects carried out two kinds of tasks, one visual (identify letters), one verbal (identify sentences); and to report the results in either of two ways, one visual (pointing at a response), one verbal (speaking a response). Time to complete each task was recorded in seconds.

Original experiment from Brooks, L., R. (1968) "Spatial and verbal components of the act of recall," Canadian J. Psych. V 22, pp. 349 - 368. These data collected from a Mount Holyoke College psychology class.

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