The bank of standardized stimuli (BOSS), a new set of 480 normative photos of objects to be used as visual stimuli in cognitive research

PLoS ONE

Volumn 5, Issue 5, 2010, Pages

  Brodeur, Mathieu B ^a   Dionne Dostie, Emmanuelle ^b   Montreuil, Tina ^a,c   Lepage, Martin ^a  

^a DOUGLAS MENTAL HEALTH UNIVERSITY INSTITUTE   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITÉ DU QUÉBEC À MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; COGNITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; IMAGE PROCESSING; IMAGE QUALITY; LINGUISTICS; MALE; MEDICAL RESEARCH; MENTAL TASK; OBJECT MANIPULATION; STIMULUS RESPONSE; TASK PERFORMANCE; VISUAL ACUITY; VISUAL DISCRIMINATION; VISUAL STIMULATION; VISUAL SYSTEM; VISUAL THRESHOLD;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; COGNITION; FEMALE; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; PHOTIC STIMULATION; PHOTOGRAPHY; RECOGNITION (PSYCHOLOGY); REFERENCE STANDARDS; RESEARCH; VISUAL PATHWAYS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 77956511196     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0010773     Document Type: Article

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