Searching for patterns in random sequences.
@article{Wolford2004SearchingFP,
title={Searching for patterns in random sequences.},
author={George L. Wolford and Sarah E Newman and Michael B. Miller and Gagan S. Wig},
journal={Canadian journal of experimental psychology = Revue canadienne de psychologie experimentale},
year={2004},
volume={58 4},
pages={
221-8
},
url={https://api.semanticscholar.org/CorpusID:15568575}
}It is shown that a secondary task that competes for left hemisphere resources moves the participants toward maximizing but that a right-hemisphere task preserves frequency matching, and that a misunderstanding of randomness contributes to frequency matching.
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