Enumerating by pointing to locations: A new method for measuring the numerosity of visual object representations

Attention, Perception, and Psychophysics

Volumn 73, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 303-308

  Haladjian, Harry Haroutioun ^a   Pylyshyn, Zenon W ^a  

^a RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Attention; Enumeration; Spatial perception; Subitizing

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; DECISION MAKING; DEPTH PERCEPTION; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; DISTANCE PERCEPTION; HUMAN; MATHEMATICS; ORIENTATION; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PERCEPTION; PROBLEM SOLVING; REACTION TIME; SHORT TERM MEMORY;

CUES; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; DISTANCE PERCEPTION; HUMANS; JUDGMENT; MATHEMATICS; MEMORY, SHORT-TERM; ORIENTATION; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PERCEPTUAL MASKING; PROBLEM SOLVING; REACTION TIME; SPACE PERCEPTION;

EID: 79951950584     PISSN: 19433921     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3758/s13414-010-0030-5     Document Type: Article

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