Abstract
A set of three experiments, involving a total of 360 Ss, explored the relation between response latency in a simple vigilance task and the temporal pattern of stimuli presented for detection. The experimental paradigm was the one devised by Mowrer for his studies of the central locus of set. The data indicated response latency to vary as a function of the difference between the duration of the immediately preceding interstimulus interval and the average interstimulus interval used in the experimental order of presentation. This latter value is viewed as an internal referent similar to the adaptation level found to function in sensory judgments. Following Adaptation Level Theory the mean was determined to be the best estimate of this average.
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