The effect of stimulus strength on the speed and accuracy of a perceptual decision

Journal of Vision

Volumn 5, Issue 5, 2005, Pages 376-404

  Palmer, John ^a   Huk, Alexander C ^b   Shadlen, Michael N ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

Author keywords

Decision; Psychometric function; Response time; Speed accuracy tradeoff; Temporal summation

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ADULT; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DECISION MAKING; EYE FIXATION; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; IMAGE ANALYSIS; MONKEY; MOVEMENT PERCEPTION; NONHUMAN; PREDICTION; PROCESS MODEL; PSYCHOMETRY; PSYCHOPHYSICS; RESPONSE TIME; SACCADIC EYE MOVEMENT; TASK PERFORMANCE; VISUAL STIMULATION; VISUAL SYSTEM FUNCTION; VISUAL SYSTEM PARAMETERS;

DECISION MAKING; HUMANS; PSYCHOMETRICS; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; REACTION TIME; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 27244459721     PISSN: 15347362     EISSN: 15347362     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1167/5.5.1     Document Type: Article

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