Serial correlations and 1/f power spectra in visual search reaction times

Journal of Vision

Volumn 8, Issue 9, 2008, Pages

  McIlhagga, William H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRADFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

1 f power spectrum; Attention; Modeling; Reaction time; Search; Serial correlation

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; COMPUTER PROGRAM; HUMAN; METHODOLOGY; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PHOTOSTIMULATION; PHYSIOLOGY; PSYCHOPHYSICS; REACTION TIME; VISION;

HUMANS; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PHOTIC STIMULATION; PSYCHOPHYSICS; REACTION TIME; SOFTWARE; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 47349095239     PISSN: None     EISSN: 15347362     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1167/8.9.5     Document Type: Article

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