- Author
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Altmann, E. M.
- Title
- Reconstructing the Serial Order of Events: A Case Study of September 11, 2001.
- Coporate
- Michigan State Univ., East Lansing
- Journal
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Applied Cognitive Psychology,
Vol. 17,
No. 9,
1067-1080,
November/December 2003
- Keywords
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World Trade Center
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terrorists
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terrorism
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pattern recognition
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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