On the choice of adequate randomization ranges for limiting the use of unwanted cues in same-different, dual-pair, and oddity tasks

Attention, Perception, and Psychophysics

Volumn 72, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 538-547

  Dai, Huanping ^a   Micheyl, Christophe ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; ATTENTION; DECISION MAKING; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; HEARING; HUMAN; PSYCHOMETRY; PSYCHOPHYSICS; RANDOMIZATION; REPRODUCIBILITY; SOUND DETECTION; STATISTICAL MODEL; STATISTICS;

ATTENTION; AUDITORY PERCEPTION; CHOICE BEHAVIOR; CUES; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; HUMANS; LIKELIHOOD FUNCTIONS; LOUDNESS PERCEPTION; PITCH DISCRIMINATION; PSYCHOACOUSTICS; PSYCHOMETRICS; RANDOM ALLOCATION; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SOUND SPECTROGRAPHY;

EID: 77951892927     PISSN: 19433921     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3758/APP.72.2.538     Document Type: Article

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