Large effects of peripheral cues on appearance correlate with low precision

Journal of Vision

Volumn 10, Issue 11, 2010, Pages 1-14

  Kerzel, Dirk ^a   Zarian, Leily ^a   Gauch, Angélique ^a   Buetti, Simona ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GENEVA   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Contrast perception; Decision bias; Equality judgment; Involuntary attention; Visual attention

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; ATTENTION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTRAST SENSITIVITY; DECISION MAKING; HUMAN; METHODOLOGY; PHOTOSTIMULATION; PHYSIOLOGY; REACTION TIME; VISION;

ATTENTION; CONTRAST SENSITIVITY; CUES; HUMANS; JUDGMENT; PHOTIC STIMULATION; REACTION TIME; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 78449262851     PISSN: None     EISSN: 15347362     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1167/10.11.26     Document Type: Article

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