Vision senses number directly

Journal of Vision

Volumn 10, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 1-8

  Ross, John ^a   Burr, David C ^a,b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF FLORENCE   (Italy)

^c CNR   (Italy)

Author keywords

Numerosity; Spatial vision; Texture; Visual cognition

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; DECISION MAKING; HUMAN; ILLUMINATION; MALE; METHODOLOGY; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PERCEPTIVE DISCRIMINATION; PERCEPTIVE THRESHOLD; PHOTOSTIMULATION; PHYSIOLOGY; PSYCHOMETRY; VISION; VISUAL ADAPTATION;

ADAPTATION, OCULAR; DISCRIMINATION (PSYCHOLOGY); HUMANS; JUDGMENT; LIGHTING; MALE; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PHOTIC STIMULATION; PSYCHOMETRICS; SENSORY THRESHOLDS; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 77955508460     PISSN: None     EISSN: 15347362     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1167/10.2.10     Document Type: Article

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