Optimal observer model of single-fixation oddity search predicts a shallow set-size function

Journal of Vision

Volumn 7, Issue 10, 2007, Pages

  Schoonveld, Wade ^a   Shimozaki, Steve S ^a   Eckstein, Miguel P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Ideal observer; Oddity; Search; Target known

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; EYE FIXATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; ORIENTATION; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PERCEPTIVE DISCRIMINATION; PREDICTION AND FORECASTING; PSYCHOLOGICAL MODEL; VISION;

ADULT; ATTENTION; DISCRIMINATION (PSYCHOLOGY); FEMALE; FIXATION, OCULAR; HUMANS; MODELS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; ORIENTATION; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; SIGNAL DETECTION (PSYCHOLOGY); VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 34447269975     PISSN: None     EISSN: 15347362     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1167/7.10.1     Document Type: Article

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