Effects of spatial frequency bands on perceptual decision: It is not the stimuli but the comparison

Journal of Vision

Volumn 10, Issue 10, 2010, Pages

  Rotshtein, Pia ^a   Schofield, Andrew ^a   Funes, María J ^a,b   Humphreys, Glyn W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BIRMINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GRANADA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Attention and congruency manipulations; Face perception; Gender; Hybrid stimuli; Ordinate categorization; Subordinate categorization

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DEPTH PERCEPTION; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; METHODOLOGY; ORIENTATION; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PHOTOSTIMULATION; PHYSIOLOGY; REACTION TIME;

ADULT; ATTENTION; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; ORIENTATION; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PHOTIC STIMULATION; REACTION TIME; SPACE PERCEPTION;

EID: 79955138047     PISSN: None     EISSN: 15347362     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1167/10.10.25     Document Type: Article

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