The role of judgment frames and task precision in object attention: Reduced template sharpness limits dual-object performance

Vision Research

Volumn 49, Issue 10, 2009, Pages 1336-1351

  Liu, Shiau Hua ^a   Dosher, Barbara Anne ^a   Lu, Zhong Lin ^b  

^a Instit Mathematical Behavioral Sciences   (United States)

^b Neuroscience Graduate Program   (United States)

Author keywords

External noise exclusion; Judgment frames; Object attention; Precision

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ADULT; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; ATTENTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DECISION MAKING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INFORMATION PROCESSING; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOMETRY; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; SPATIAL DISCRIMINATION; STIMULUS RESPONSE; TASK PERFORMANCE; VISUAL DISCRIMINATION; VISUAL ORIENTATION;

ATTENTION; CONTRAST SENSITIVITY; CUES; HUMANS; JUDGMENT; MODELS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; PHOTIC STIMULATION; PSYCHOMETRICS; PSYCHOPHYSICS; SENSORY THRESHOLDS;

EID: 67349130819     PISSN: 00426989     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.visres.2008.07.025     Document Type: Article

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