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Mizuno, Matsu, Harman, & Bellezza (2008) measured attention-switching time, which gets longer at shorter SOAs with within-block design, by simple reaction time, calculated net matching time by subtracting simple reaction time from matching time, and revealed the real encoding times for phonograms of Japanese and English readers. This study was conducted to replicate the experiment with between-block design, which was considered to be free from the bias because of SOAs, to confirm the validity of this design. The result revealed that there was substantially no difference between the change with SOAs of matching time with between-block design and that of net matching time with within-block design, indicating the validity of between-block design in eliminating the bias and the encoding times found in Mizuno et al. (2008).
