Varying Target Prevalence Reveals Two Dissociable Decision Criteria in Visual Search

Current Biology

Volumn 20, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 121-124

  Wolfe, Jeremy M ^a,b   Van Wert, Michael J ^a  

^a BRIGHAM AND WOMEN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

SYSNEURO

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; DECISION MAKING; VISION;

ANIMALS; DECISION MAKING; VISION, OCULAR;

EID: 74449088814     PISSN: 09609822     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cub.2009.11.066     Document Type: Article

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