Display size effects in visual search: Analyses of reaction time distributions as mixtures

Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology

Volumn 62, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 988-1009

  Reynolds, Ann ^a   Miller, Jeff ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OTAGO   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Mixture distribution; Reaction time distributions; Visual search

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ATTENTION; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; HUMAN; ORIENTATION; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PERCEPTION; REACTION TIME; STATISTICAL MODEL;

ATTENTION; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; HUMANS; LIKELIHOOD FUNCTIONS; ORIENTATION; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; REACTION TIME; SIZE PERCEPTION;

EID: 67649682488     PISSN: 17470218     EISSN: 17470226     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/17470210802373027     Document Type: Article

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