The spatio-temporal dynamics of visual letter recognition

Cognitive Neuropsychology

Volumn 26, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 23-35

  Fiset, Daniel ^a   Blais, Caroline ^b   Arguin, Martin ^b   Tadros, Karine ^b   Éthier Majcher, Catherine ^b   Bub, Daniel ^a   Gosselin, Frédéric ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VICTORIA   (Canada)

^b CENTRE DE RECHERCHE EN NEUROPSYCHOLOGIE ET COGNITION   (Canada)

Author keywords

Bubbles; Classification images; Letter features; Letter recognition; Temporal processing

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BOOTSTRAPPING; BUBBLES TECHNIQUE; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; LINEAR REGRESSION ANALYSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TASK PERFORMANCE; TEMPORAL SUMMATION; WORD RECOGNITION; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; METHODOLOGY; NONLINEAR SYSTEM; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PHOTOSTIMULATION; PHYSIOLOGY; PSYCHOLOGICAL MODEL; REACTION TIME; RECOGNITION; TIME;

DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; HUMANS; MODELS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; NONLINEAR DYNAMICS; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PHOTIC STIMULATION; REACTION TIME; RECOGNITION (PSYCHOLOGY); TIME FACTORS;

EID: 67649525418     PISSN: 02643294     EISSN: 14640627     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/02643290802421160     Document Type: Article

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