Spatial frequency discrimination: Visual long-term memory or criterion setting?

Vision Research

Volumn 38, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 557-572

  Lages, Martin ^a   Treisman, Michel ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Criterion setting; Discrimination; Sensory memory; Sequential dependencies; Spatial frequency

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MEMORY; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOMETRY; SPATIAL FREQUENCY DISCRIMINATION; VISUAL DISCRIMINATION; VISUAL STIMULATION;

EID: 0032008290     PISSN: 00426989     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0042-6989(97)88333-2     Document Type: Article

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