Research investigating Ornstein's information-processing model for the estimation of the duration of short time intervals requires that stimuli be recoded after input into material of varying redundancy. An attempted replication of Ornstein's work provides evidence that such recoding is difficult to achieve and may not have occurred in the original study in sufficient strength for his conclusions to be unambiguously acceptable. Alternative stimuli are suggested.
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