Numerosity estimation in visual stimuli in the absence of luminance-based cues

PLoS ONE

Volumn 6, Issue 2, 2011, Pages

  Kramer, Peter ^a   Di Bono, Maria Grazia ^a   Zorzi, Marco ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PADOVA   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANALYTIC METHOD; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; DENSITY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LUMINANCE; MALE; MOTION; NUMEROSITY ESTIMATION; PERCEPTION; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; VISUAL STIMULATION; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; LUMINESCENCE; MATHEMATICAL PHENOMENA; METHODOLOGY; PHOTOSTIMULATION; PHYSIOLOGY; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; VISION; VISUAL ACUITY;

ANIMALIA;

ADULT; CUES; FEMALE; HUMANS; LUMINESCENCE; LUMINESCENT MEASUREMENTS; MALE; MATHEMATICAL CONCEPTS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; PHOTIC STIMULATION; VISION, OCULAR; VISUAL ACUITY; VISUAL PERCEPTION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 79952269946     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0017378     Document Type: Article

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