Observers are consistent when rating image conspicuity

Vision Research

Volumn 47, Issue 24, 2007, Pages 3052-3060

  Cerf, Moran ^a   Cleary, Daniel R ^a   Peters, Robert J ^b   Einhäuser, Wolfgang ^a,c   Koch, Christof ^a  

^a CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b University of Southern California ^*  (United States)

^c ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Conspicuity; Human recognition; Memory; Psychophysics

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; IMAGE ANALYSIS; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PERCEPTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RATING SCALE; STIMULUS; TASK PERFORMANCE; VISUAL ACUITY; VISUAL MEMORY;

ADULT; FEMALE; FIELD DEPENDENCE-INDEPENDENCE; FRACTALS; HUMANS; MALE; MEMORY; OBSERVER VARIATION; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PHOTIC STIMULATION; PSYCHOPHYSICS; RECOGNITION (PSYCHOLOGY); REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS;

EID: 35348991072     PISSN: 00426989     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.visres.2007.06.025     Document Type: Article

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