stimulus- (strike-) selector

(Reiz-(Schlag-) Wähler)
Description: A motor drives a continuously variable disk which turns a disk with 16 (stimulus interrupting) gaps. This device produces a continuously variable stimulus interruption rate. (Expanded caption Copyright 1998, Edward J. Haupt)
(Source: Ludwig (1889, design) du Bois-Reymonds Archiv für Physiologie, p. 295 and Baltzar (manufacture))
Source of illustration: Zimmermann, E. (1903). XVIII. Preis- Liste über psychologische und physiologische Apparate (p. 41). Leipzig: Eduard Zimmermann.

DESCRIPTORS:
Type: component, stimulus timing, periodic
Stimulus: N/A
System: time-sense
Output: judgment, sound duration

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