The Nature of Psychological Thresholds

Psychological Review

Volumn 116, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 655-660

  Rouder, Jeffrey N ^a   Morey, Richard D ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

consciousness; item response models; psychophysics; subliminal perception; thresholds of consciousness

Indexed keywords

EID: 67651017878     PISSN: 0033295X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/a0016413     Document Type: Article

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