- Author
- Altmann, E. M.
- Title
- Reconstructing the Serial Order of Events: A Case Study of September 11, 2001.
- Coporate
- Michigan State Univ., East Lansing
- Journal
- Applied Cognitive Psychology, Vol. 17, No. 9, 1067-1080, November/December 2003
- Keywords
- World Trade Center | terrorists | terrorism | pattern recognition | human beings
- Identifiers
- World Trade Center (110-story-high) Towers, Manhattan, New York, September 11, 2001; this article examines how well people were able to reconstruct the serial order of events associated with the terrorist attacks in the United States on September 11, 2001; three groups of participants (453 in total) were recruited from the Michigan State University subject pool; stimulus materials for testing serial-order reconstruction of events of September 11; constraints on the serial order of the five-event set; responses in sequencing the five-event set (unfilled markers) compared to data from Monte Carlo simulations (filled markers) incorporating the constraints described in Table 2