Evaluation of objective uncertainty in the visual system

PLoS Computational Biology

Volumn 5, Issue 9, 2009, Pages

  Barthelmé, Simon ^a   Mamassian, Pascal ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ PARIS DESCARTES   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BAYESIAN NETWORKS;

HUMAN OBSERVERS; PERCEPTUAL SYSTEM; PERFORMANCE; POTENTIAL THREATS; SENSORY INFORMATION; SENSORY SYSTEM; SYSTEMATIC UNCERTAINTIES; UNCERTAINTY; VISUAL NOISE; VISUAL SYSTEMS;

DECISION MAKING;

ARTICLE; BAYES THEOREM; DECISION MAKING; EVALUATION; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; NORMAL HUMAN; RELIABILITY; SENSORY SYSTEM; TASK PERFORMANCE; VISUAL STIMULATION; VISUAL SYSTEM; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; PHYSIOLOGY; PSYCHOMETRY; UNCERTAINTY; VISION;

BAYES THEOREM; DECISION MAKING; HUMANS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; PSYCHOMETRICS; UNCERTAINTY; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 70349659708     PISSN: 1553734X     EISSN: 15537358     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pcbi.1000504     Document Type: Article

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