Overestimation of base-rate differences in complex perceptual categories

Perception and Psychophysics

Volumn 60, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 575-592

  Maddox, W Todd ^a   Bohil, Corey J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; HUMAN; PERCEPTIVE DISCRIMINATION; PHYSIOLOGY; VISION;

HUMANS; SIGNAL DETECTION (PSYCHOLOGY); VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 0032065430     PISSN: 00315117     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3758/BF03206047     Document Type: Article

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