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tachistoscope

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ta·chis·to·scope (t-kst-skp)
n.
An apparatus that projects a series of images onto a screen at rapid speed to test visual perception, memory, and learning.

ta·chisto·scopic (-skpk) adj.

tachistoscope
[təkis′təskōp′]
Etymology: Gk, tachistos, rapid, skopein, to view
a device used to increase the speed of visual perception by displaying visual stimuli only extremely briefly.

tachistoscope 
An instrument that presents visual stimuli for a brief and variable period of time (usually less than 0.1 s).


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It is also an interesting retrospect into the brief history of how subliminal messaging came about and it started in a small base in the Allied camp when British soldiers were exposed to an instrument called the tachistoscope, which was essentially a machine used to flash images to soldiers in quick succession, so that they could be trained in spotting and identifying enemy profiles and vehicles like warplanes.
The children in the middle and lowest performing groups practiced using real and nonsense story words on hand-made tachistoscopes.
These courses utilized state-of-the-art technologies such as tachistoscopes, perceptorscopes and controlled readers to forestall poor reading hygiene, such as regression of eye-movements (Wood, 1997).
 
 
 
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