Towards a visual recognition threshold: New instrument shows humans identify animals with only 1ms of visual exposure

Vision Research

Volumn 51, Issue 17, 2011, Pages 1966-1971

  Thurgood, Clementine ^a   Whitfield, T W Allan ^a   Patterson, John ^a  

^a SWINBURNE UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Feedback mechanisms; Iconic memory; Rapid exposure; Stimulus identification; Tachistoscope; Visual perception

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; FEEDBACK SYSTEM; FEMALE; HUMAN; ILLUMINATION; LIGHT EMITTING DIODE; LIQUID CRYSTAL; MALE; PHOTOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCORING SYSTEM; STEADY STATE; STIMULUS RESPONSE; TACHISTOSCOPY; TASK PERFORMANCE; VISION; VISUAL MEMORY; VISUAL STIMULATION; VISUAL SYSTEM;

ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; FEMALE; FORM PERCEPTION; HUMANS; MALE; PHOTIC STIMULATION; RECOGNITION (PSYCHOLOGY); SENSORY THRESHOLDS; TASK PERFORMANCE AND ANALYSIS; TIME FACTORS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 80052145131     PISSN: 00426989     EISSN: 18785646     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.visres.2011.07.008     Document Type: Article

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