Using morphed images to study visual detection of cutaneous melanoma symptom evolution

Psychological Record

Volumn 61, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 341-362

  Dalianis, Elizabeth A ^a   Critchfield, Thomas S ^a   Howard, Niki L ^a   Jordan, J Scott ^a   Derenne, Adam ^b  

^a ILLINOIS STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NORTH DAKOTA   (United States)

Author keywords

College students; Melanoma; Method of limits; Psychophysics; Skin cancer

Indexed keywords

EID: 80052219436     PISSN: 00332933     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/bf03395765     Document Type: Article

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