How element visibility affects visual enumeration

Vision Research

Volumn 50, Issue 19, 2010, Pages 2000-2007

  Palomares, Melanie ^a,b   Egeth, Howard ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA   (United States)

^b JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Counting; Detection; Enumeration; Gestalt; Object identification; Perceptual organization; Probability; Subitizing

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ADULT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LUMINANCE; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROBABILITY; STIMULUS RESPONSE; TASK PERFORMANCE; VISIBILITY; VISUAL ACUITY; VISUAL STIMULATION;

EID: 77955844837     PISSN: 00426989     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.visres.2010.07.011     Document Type: Article

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