The roles of distractor noise and target certainty in search: A signal detection model

Vision Research

Volumn 44, Issue 12, 2004, Pages 1235-1256

  Santhi, Nayantara ^a,b   Reeves, Adam ^a  

^a NORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b BRIGHAM AND WOMEN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ADULT; COLOR; CONFERENCE PAPER; CONTRAST; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; IMAGE QUALITY; LATENT PERIOD; MALE; MODEL; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SELECTIVE ATTENTION; VISION; VISUAL STIMULATION;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ATTENTION; COLOR PERCEPTION; CONTRAST SENSITIVITY; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; MODELS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; PHOTIC STIMULATION; REACTION TIME; SIGNAL DETECTION (PSYCHOLOGY); SPACE PERCEPTION;

EID: 1842557753     PISSN: 00426989     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.visres.2003.11.011     Document Type: Conference Paper

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