Perceptually averaging in a continuous Visual World: Extracting statistical summary representations over time

Psychological Science

Volumn 21, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 560-567

  Albrecht, Alice R ^a   Scholl, Brian J ^a  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Attentional capture; Ensemble features; Looming; Size perception

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ATTENTION; HUMAN; LEARNING; MOVEMENT PERCEPTION; ORIENTATION; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PERCEPTION; PERCEPTIVE DISCRIMINATION; PROBLEM SOLVING; PSYCHOPHYSICS; STATISTICAL MODEL;

ATTENTION; DISCRIMINATION (PSYCHOLOGY); GENERALIZATION, STIMULUS; HUMANS; MODELS, STATISTICAL; MOTION PERCEPTION; ORIENTATION; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PROBLEM SOLVING; PSYCHOPHYSICS; SIZE PERCEPTION; TRANSFER (PSYCHOLOGY);

EID: 77951212203     PISSN: 09567976     EISSN: 14679280     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0956797610363543     Document Type: Article

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